Her real estate office is located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, but Turner has been a resident of the West End for 11 years, she said. I'm considered to be almost a newcomer. Many of my neighbors have been living there for much longer. That's not the image that many Bostonians hold. They think of the West End as being a place where transferred executives live for their first few years in Boston, she said.
People tend to think of it as a transient community of sterile high-rises.
But, the reality is so different. There are some three-bedroom units among the neighborhood's more than 1,000 condominiums, but they are rare, Turner said. There have been no three-bedrooms on the market for years. When the smaller units come on the market, often the first people she calls are the abutters, said Turner. There are so many families who want to stay in the city but are running out of room.