Hi, I thought it would be fun to form a group of ex-pat parents for fun activities, support and get-togethers in the Medford/Cambridge/Somerville/Winchester/Arlington and surrounding areas. Open to anyone who is from somewhere else or is married to an ex-pat and is raising kids in Metro Boston/Northshore. Without extended families here its nice to make new friends who face the same issues. Play dates and parties, book clubs and soccer games, support and fun. Ireland, England, …

This group is for people living around the Brookline area who have moved here from Europe and are looking to meet fellow Europeans. We can share experiences and advice about living/working in America/Boston and also make new friends. I moved to Brookline a few months from England for my husbands work and am enjoying living here, but would really like to meet people in a similar situation who live locally. The group has been active since November and we meet up every couple of weeks for a coffee, …

… ABOUT THE BLUE HILLS - The Blue Hills were so named by early European explorers who, while sailing along the coastline, noticed the bluish hue on the slopes when viewed from a distance. More than ten thousand years before those Europeans arrived, Native Americans made their home in the hills. The Natives referred to themselves as Massachusett, or "people of the great hills". Eventually the Europeans began settling in this region. The colonists built houses and barns, cleared fields for crops and …