An article on the editorial page of the Globe today by Paul McMorrow might have given some people the impression that suburbs around Boston are entering a state of decline. Property values over a ten and twenty year period contradict this impression. McMorrow is correct with regard to the fact that dense urban areas are becoming more popular, but this has not come at the expense of the suburbs (and what is a suburb, anyway?). The Boston Metro region suffers from a housing shortage in places where people want to live--which includes good Boston neighborhoods and medium density suburbs in towns like Melrose, Weston, Quincy, Wellesley, and Needham.
This is interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/31/business/economy/case-shiller-index.html?_r=0
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