An Emerson College senior, unable to find campus housing and unwilling to pay Chinatown or Theater District rents, instead opts to commute from his parents' home... in Portland: "His day starts at 7 a.m. when he gets up and gets ready for his mother to drive him to the Concord Coach bus station 10 minutes from his house across the bay in South Portland. He boards his bus at 8:30 a.m. and usually arrives in Boston at South Station around 10:30 a.m. after the 108-mile ride down Interstate 95. ... [H]e takes the 10:15 p.m. bus from South Station and usually arrives back in Portland around 12:10 a.m. ..." [Berkeley Beacon]
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