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What do you think about Boston, MA?

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Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I live here,that makes it a cool place😀
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About the only thing that makes it a cool place. Lately this place has been extremely miserable. I never knew how miserable this place could be until the last week or two with this BS Weather. Trust me, it sucks hard. Give me weirdo California Politics anytime, it's a mere distraction to those who live there and a reason for those who live in a sh!tholes like the NE area and the Midwest to lambast the best place in the USA to live
 
I'm with RabidMongoose, the people are cranky and rude but it's a nice place. What's the saying? The locals are as cold as the weather? Is that it? People in the South are a lot nicer.

People with thick Boston accents are really difficult to understand, too. They like to drop off a syllable or two from every word.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I live here,that makes it a cool place😀
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About the only thing that makes it a cool place. Lately this place has been extremely miserable. I never knew how miserable this place could be until the last week or two with this BS Weather. Trust me, it sucks hard. Give me weirdo California Politics anytime, it's a mere distraction to those who live there and a reason for those who live in a sh!tholes like the NE area and the Midwest to lambast the best place in the USA to live
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The bitter cold and the snow?
 
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Hey Boston people, are you allowed to bring luggage (going to the airport) on the subway?
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You sure can. You can bring anything but bikes on the subway really.



As for boston, let me just give you a little list...

1. Anna's Taqueria. Everyone in boston/brighton/brookline who doesn't eat there at least 3 times a week doesn't deserve to live in mass. in all it's beauty.
2. The Red Sox. You will not find a better hometown team or a better set of fans. Only sox fans can complain for 5 years about the Yanks buying titles then be sooooo ecstatic when the sox start doing it. Sox fans rule.
3. The city itself is great. It's small enough to get around in but big enough to always find something to do if you want to.

the only downsides I can see are housing costs really, and congested roads, but all decently sized cities are like this. I love having 4 distinct seasons, all you cali and southern people are missing out. You're 30 mins from a half decent beach, and hour and a half from the cape, and 2 hours from some decent mountains in NH. It's a great location, and it aint NYC, that's nice.

Also you can survive without a car which is good for some people, personally I'd rather be dead. 🙂

If you're 18-28 and don't mind cities and have a good enough income to pay for more than a cardboard box to live in you should be happy here. If you're over 28 you're too old to be happy so I cannot comment. JK JK all you hogies.
 
Oh yes, I forgot to mention the food. The only place I've ever been that even closely rivals boston food is NYC food, but you really need to know where to eat in NYC or be willing to spend a bundle.

You really can get a GOOD meal for like 8 bucks no matter where you are in beantown. Going down south or even remotely close to middle america, or penn. or NJ for instance, you'd need to spend a hundred bucks a plate to please your palate as much as 5 bucks at annas taqueria will 😉

Good PIZZA too 🙂 and nice sit down Italian in the north end. And Chinese. Mmmmm
 
Originally posted by: SammyBoy
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Hey Boston people, are you allowed to bring luggage (going to the airport) on the subway?
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You sure can. You can bring anything but bikes on the subway really.
As for boston, let me just give you a little list...
1. Anna's Taqueria. Everyone in boston/brighton/brookline who doesn't eat there at least 3 times a week doesn't deserve to live in mass. in all it's beauty.
2. The Red Sox. You will not find a better hometown team or a better set of fans. Only sox fans can complain for 5 years about the Yanks buying titles then be sooooo ecstatic when the sox start doing it. Sox fans rule.
3. The city itself is great. It's small enough to get around in but big enough to always find something to do if you want to.

the only downsides I can see are housing costs really, and congested roads, but all decently sized cities are like this. I love having 4 distinct seasons, all you cali and southern people are missing out. You're 30 mins from a half decent beach, and hour and a half from the cape, and 2 hours from some decent mountains in NH. It's a great location, and it aint NYC, that's nice.

Also you can survive without a car which is good for some people, personally I'd rather be dead. 🙂

If you're 18-28 and don't mind cities and have a good enough income to pay for more than a cardboard box to live in you should be happy here. If you're over 28 you're too old to be happy so I cannot comment. JK JK all you hogies.
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Sammy Sammy Sammy.... well said. I live in Boston as well and would probably shrivel and die without my Super Carnitas Burrito from Anna's.

Red Sox? 'Nuff said. This is the year baby.

Nightlife? Fantastic, but I wish the bars were open later.... we're workin on that.

Food? To die for... amazing sea food (waterfront) and steaks (copley) and italian (north end) for reasonable prices
 
Boston's a great city. There's lots to do, great food, fantastic sports scene, and the people are for the most part quite nice (although the ones who aren't are very noisy about it). There are, however a few things to contend with:

1) Politics/Social attitude. The political atmosphere in Massachusetts is markedly different than anywhere else. The closest analogy is probably Western Europe. They are generally liberal, provincial, and very willing to discuss their ideals. You may even find yourself in a political discussion with the cab drivers and shopkeepers as you go about your day. Some conservatives have a hard time dealing with this liberal dominence, so it may not be your cup of tea. Dick Army's recently joked "If I were a Democrat, I would feel a heck of a lot more comfortable in Boston than, say, in America."

2)Weather. The summers are usually hot and sticky (although you're from Alabama, so that shouldn't be an issue), while the winters are cold and VERY windy, with alot of slush. Boston gets just enough warmth from the sea that much of the snow turns to slush (or in some cases, ice), making life kinda difficult. For the rest of the year, the old adage "If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a few minutes" is remarkably true. The weather will very quickly change from warm and sunny to cold and rainy without warning. We even had a blizzard on April Fools Day once.

3)Traffic. My god, the drivers here are morons! They are some of the worst, most impatient drivers ever. An this isn't helped by the fact that Boston isn't a planned city, so it is easy to get lost.

Despite all this (although I'm a liberal, so I don't mind the first part), I love Boston and will be sad to leave it when I go off to college next year (I've lived here my whole life, and wanted to get a bit more variety of experience during my college years).

I apologize for any typos in this (long) post. 🙂
 
I like it.

I go there atleast once a year.

I like downtwon Boston, mainly the Cambridge area. Where I usually stay is about 2mins walk from Harvard Square.
 
Messy, around the big dig... good chinese food in chinatown, don't ever take the greenline subway, too many stops.
 
There's not much difference between Boston and NYC.

I grew up in NYC and now reside in a Boston suburb. You'll find people are pretty much the same.
 
Its definitely not as vertical as NYC, which is a good thing 🙂.

Definitely a good place to go to college.
 
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