Welcome.

If you’re from a rural place, and like to visit farms with Animals with kids, the Wright-Locke farm is just over the town line in Winchester, a 5 minute drive. Further out on route-2 (15-20 mins) is Drumlin farm, with Mass Audubon. Both have animals and children’s programming.

Walden Pond, a 15 minute drive is a great place for summer swimming. It fills up early on weekends. Weekdays are not that bad.

The Arlington reservoir is great for little kids swimming during the summer. Brand new playground just put in.

Wilson Farm is expensive, but good place to get vegetables and fruit. They also have expensive meat and prepared foods. The local supermarkets leave much to be desired for produce quality.

If you’re from Pennsylvania you’ll be familiar with Wegman’s supermarkets, there’s one in Burlington.

Arlington has lots of playgrounds and soccer fields. Each has their own thing. There’s a spray park at the Thompson elementary school from June-August.

There’s a movie theatre (Capitol Theatre) that has mother’s matinees on Monday. Nursing moms, screaming kids, changing diapers, all cool and normal. Great for mothers with newborns.

If you’re commuting to Kendall from Arlington there are two ways. 1 - Taking bus to Alewife Station and then the Red-Line subway to Kendall. 2 - Taking the bus all the way to Harvard, then transferring to red line train to Kendall. Depending on where you live, one or the other might be better.

If you’re going to go to Target, go to the ones in Burlington or Woburn. City traffic actually makes it about same time. Better parking and bigger stores.

There are 6 elementary schools in Arlington. You can enroll with the public schools online.

Internet is Comcast / RCN (Astound) / Verizon FIOS. You have three choices. FIOS is fastest, and if you work from home, the most reliable. RCN is pretty good and they have a service building in Arlington. It was the “cheaper” option for a long while. Comcast has comparable speeds to RCN, but their customer service is breathtakingly bad.

Robbins Farm park, near the Brackett school has a great overlook of the city. Great sledding on the upper hill (above soccer field) when it snows.

Hiking in the Middlesex Fells is nearby. Good if you have dogs.

Monotomy Rocks park is smaller and a location with off leash available for dogs. Great for a small hike with kids.

For young kids, Fox library has children’s books and programming. Robbins library is larger, and also has kids stuff, but entirety of Fox is young kids. Free good WiFi at Robbins library when you need to work and kids are checking out books.

Been living in the area with young kids for 10 years. If you have any questions, let me know.

https://www.wlfarm.org

https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/drumlin-farm

https://www.wilsonfarm.com