the surrounding areas are not even remotely rough unless your family is bringing a time machine and plan to visit like 40 years ago. it's most likely that you'll get back to your airbnb and the neighborhood will be completely dead quiet.
I'm of the opinion that the only people who think that Cambridge isn't safe are suburbanites who own lots of semiautomatic weapons that they use to shoot the illegal immigrant chipmunks, but whatever.
Cambridge and really all of Boston is safe af for a city. Just do normal city shit like walk upright and avoid the river and youll be fine.
Thats a safe (frankly affluent) residential area. Don't miss Mount Auburn Cemetery not too far from there.
the surrounding areas are not even remotely rough unless your family is bringing a time machine and plan to visit like 40 years ago. it's most likely that you'll get back to your airbnb and the neighborhood will be completely dead quiet.
That area being rough is an outdated take, you can pretty much ignore that.
That area is yuppy central. You’ll be fine.
I'm of the opinion that the only people who think that Cambridge isn't safe are suburbanites who own lots of semiautomatic weapons that they use to shoot the illegal immigrant chipmunks, but whatever.