It is funny how when you are a student Boston seems like this great place to live and on the same tier as NYC, but the older you get the lamer it seems to me. At this point I think of Boston as like a mid tier city and don't even put it in the same weight class as NYC. People forget that Oklahoma City is a bigger city than Boston
Well Boston isn't in the same class as NYC. NYC is a world class city and much, much bigger.
Tell me you're 80 without really telling me you're 80.
I hope I make it to 80.
But all the high level colleges ARE here and have been a big reason why Boston has what it has and have driven a lot of the industries that are here. So your comment is really, really stupid.
And NYC is huge, and famous, but bigger isn't better. I can't think of anything that would entice me to live in NYC. Much prefer Boston. Landing at LaGuardia last week (which is nicely renovated) my thoughts on NY essentially amounted to "gross". The worst thing to happen to Boston has been the proliferation of high rises going up. Lost some of its charm.
An armory?
Hartford.
If you take out the colleges, Boston is still nothing like Hartford. At this point Hartford dreams of one day becoming Providence. I grew up in metro Hartford, but it's a shell of anything it once hoped to be.
Take UConn out of CT then too, lol.
But a lot worse than it is.Hartford.
Living here for the past 27 years I can say they’re much better than they used to be. 12 trophies will do that. Philly is on a whole other level. Not even close.
Providence? Seriously? Wth is there?
Back in the 80's Hartford (metro) was wealthy and growing and Providence was a festering dump. Then Weiker happened. Since then, Providence has gone up and Hartford declined. Focusing on city square footage doesn't matter really. Cambridge is Boston. Arlington is Boston. Quincy is Boston. Newton is Boston. New England isn't big on annexation like the rest of the country.
Agree Philly is all on its own.
I lived there from the age of 21-25 and never thought of it anything like NY, who does? Lmao odd statement.
Weiker was a pox on teachers and the State.
I've never really been a fan of Boston because I like bigger cities but it is a walkable city and there aren't many of them in the US and it's lack of crime compared to many other cities is a huge feather in it's cap (San Diego also has that going for it.) My city is in a downward spiral in terms of crime and as you get older it's something that gets harder to deal with. Having my car stolen and being punched in the back of the head in the last month has me contemplating leaving for the first time.
Lmaoooo that’s cute
It’s a mini big city. It has its different “boroughs” all with very different vibes between Charlestown, Waterfront, North End, Quincy Market and the surrounding area, Back bay, south end, brookline, Allston/Brighton… and great public transit to get around. It feels like an east coast SF to me.
O.K. don't go over board here. Lol. My son is in Stockholm, Sweden on a semester abroad and he's been traveling all around Europe. When I talked to him the other day about some of his visits he asked me why Boston's T is so gross and unreliable. He said most of the European cities have much better public transportation. More reliable and much cleaner subway stations too. It's one area Boston really needs to fix.
Maybe the Boston sportswriters can be more productive by cleaning the T cars.
The same weekend my car was stolen but a separate incident. I was walking down a sidewalk in Lincoln Park afternoon/early evening to go see my friend's older brother sing old Irish songs at his tavern and I felt a thud in the back of my head. I think I was out for a second or two. People saw it and said it was two guys who ran up on me and one punched me in the back of the head. No pain whatsoever but I had leaking blood from a small cut in the back of my head and I could feel a cut and swelling on my chin under my beard from my chin hitting the pavement. Just thankful it didn't dislodge my teeth or anything like that. I didn't call the cops because I knew there was nothing to be done, they were gone and I never saw them...
