Davis Square
Davis Square is Somerville's civic center even though it's technically Cambridge — Diesel Cafe, Life Alive, 47 restaurants, 13 parks including Powder House Park, and a social glue score of 66 that proves people who move here tend to stay for reasons they can't fully articulate.
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About this Neighborhood
Davis Square earned its reputation across the 90s and has spent the years since defending it. Diesel Cafe is the institution: large, independent, deliberately unfashionable in the way that only the very fashionable can manage. Life Alive Organic Café, Mr. Crêpe. Ten coffee shops — slim for the density, but the shops that exist are load-bearing. Forty-seven restaurants and twelve grocery stores give this neighborhood complete coverage. Thirteen parks: Seven Hills Park, Powder House Park, the string of neighborhood greens that give Davis its surprisingly high green-space ratio. Three fitness spots — the gym-industrial complex hasn't fully landed here, which is either a statement or an opportunity. Social glue at 66 — active but not settled. The near-1.0 doppelganger match to West Somerville Cambridge is the most precise in this batch: these places are indistinguishable to the algorithm because they're largely indistinguishable on the ground.
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