You gotta hear about this crazy Dorchester condo.
## Your Million-Dollar Triple-Decker is Here, Kid
Look—I love Dorchester. It's got heart, it's got history, and you can still find a decent bahgain if you know where to look, especially 'round Fields Corner or Neponset. But then you see somethin' like this, a condo at 27 Salcombe Street, sellin' for a wicked serious $1.25 million, and you gotta just shake your head. A million and a quarter for a two-bed, two-and-a-half-bath triple-decker condo from 2017? And the current owners are movin' to the South End? I'm just sayin', that kinda dough used to get you a whole house in Milton, never mind a *condo* in Dot.
Here's the thing about this place:
* **Price Tag:** $1.25 million for 1,881 square feet. That's a lotta scratch, even with city views. * **Location:** 27 Salcombe St., Dorchester. Nice street, no doubt, but it ain't Beacon Hill. * **Fees:** $240 a month. Not terrible, but it adds up. * **Who's Buyin'?:** Clearly, people who want the Dorchester vibe but with a Seaport price tag.
I get it, the city's changin'. You see it everywhere, from the North End gettin' fancier by the day (still pickin' Modern Pastry over Mike's, by the way) to the Seaport lookin' like a whole new city dropped in overnight. But when Dorchester, the backbone of this city for generations, starts seein' condos go for seven figures, it makes you wonder who's gonna be left. Where's the average working stiff, the kinda guy who grew up here, supposed to live? It feels like the whole city's gettin' priced out of itself. It's just a different Boston than the one I grew up in, and I'm not entirely sure it's for the better.
Wicked early, wicked real — that's how we do it from Dot to the Harbor.
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