What’s with all of the weird names in Boston? Is the whole city taken over by immigrants?
The Boston metropolitian area has about 5 million residents, the City of Boston has about 600,000. The area around Commonwealth Avenue, “Comm Ave” in the local parlance, is thick with students, a lot of whom are “international” students. (Notice that this report is in the Boston University paper.) They have student visas, but a lot of them want to hang around after they finish school.