Roslindale.

Roslindale — Rozzie, once you've lived there a month — is built around an actual village. Roslindale Village's square holds bakeries, restaurants, and one of the city's best farmers markets, and the neighborhood rises around it in streets of single-families, two-families, and modest Victorians that make this one of Boston's most attainable homeownership markets. The Arnold Arboretum, Harvard's 281-acre living museum of trees, forms the neighborhood's northern edge and functions as Roslindale's shared backyard.

Commuters ride the Needham Line from Roslindale Village station straight to South Station, or catch the Orange Line at Forest Hills one stop up the hill — with buses converging there from every corner of the neighborhood. Buyers priced out of Jamaica Plain have been landing in Rozzie for years, and the village's food scene keeps getting better because of it. Roslindale is one of Boston's best-kept secrets — for the full citywide context, visit our Boston page.