<p>I heard that students at Harvard are generally upper-middle class; so do most people have a car on campus? My friend told me some students actually drive lambos and ferraris</p>
<p>Boston/Cambridge + Car = HEADACHE</p>
<p>Hardly any students have a car</p>
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<p>Hear. Hear. I've enjoyed every trip I've ever taken to Boston without renting a car, and detested every trip I've taken when I had a car.</p>
<p>I don't mind driving in Boston (esp. now that the Big Dig is done), but parking! Horrible!</p>
<p>Also, many stereotypes about H students are largely out of date.</p>
<p>Wait, is this a serious post. Are you serious when you tell us your friend told you that "some students actually drive lambos and ferraris". I'd say you'd have to be slightly more than upper-middle class to drive one of those, and trust me when I say that NO ONE drives one of those at Harvard (can you imagine those things in the winter?)</p>
<p>Almost no one has a car up here, and the few kids that do (mostly NY kids) have the biggest hassle in the world figuring out how to park it. The fly has the cheapest parking in the square, but you have to be a member (or be friends with one), and it's still $800 a year. Parking at the Charles runs you over $1100 a year, and at The Inn at Harvard it's over $1300. All those prices only include 9 months out of the year, and summer runs you more.</p>
<p>Plus, why would you ever need a car. The T will take you everywhere you could want (10 minutes to the heart of downtown, gets you to Providence inside 1 1/4 hours).</p>
<p>I'm a junior and I've never met anyone here with a car.</p>