Except it’s now shutting down between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. on weekends, so kick rocks… Only a New Yorker could write a post like this (in which they reference the MTA as a “disgusting cesspool”) and still consider it superior to another subway system based on it’s last run.
Anybody scoffing at New England has clearly never lived here.
Visiting Boston, taking a ducktour and walking the Freedom Trail like thousands of other tourists or skiing Stowe at Christmas doesn’t count. I grew up here and have seen many other regions of this great nation (including Grandex Inc.’s beloved south) and I can say that there isn’t another region of the country as unique as these six states.
Where else can you get beaches, mountains, snow, foliage and summer every year, all within a maximum of 4 hours of eachother? Now I understand that people down south will say they don’t need the seasons, but trust me, Christmas isn’t the same without snow. Oh, you’ve never seen that before? You have my simpathy.
Is it expensive? Yes (It’s one downside). Is it liberal? Yes (for better or worse). But once you live in one of (or more than one of) these six states, I promise you, you won’t want to live anywhere else (except Connecticut. You might as well live in New York).
1. Old industrial cities tend to be on the dingy side, but I’ve seen rats the size of housecats on the streets of some southern cities too.
2. 100 percent agree. It’s a chicken and egg situation with the roads: we have massive public transit systems because they’re so awful and we don’t feel the need to fix them because we have massive public transit systems.
3. Again, 100 percent agree, but it’s all relative. I’m no economist, but I’m sure there are plenty of recent postgrads having just as much trouble making ends meet in the south, even though it’s much cheaper.
4. The people suck? We may be terrible drivers who’re always be in a hurry and who curse like sailors, but at least we aren’t still proudly flying confederate flags (and proudly never did).
5. For a region of the country that plays football year round and puts it’s kids in pads in grade school, I’m kind of surprised that the cold bothers you guys this much (and for the record, I’d rather have Fall and Winter than bugs the size of Buicks).
6. As great as real southern sweet tea is, go snag a cup of Del’s Lemonade next time you’re in Rhode Island for business. Just as refreshing.
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^ Exactly how I feel about Fenway Park
Except it’s now shutting down between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. on weekends, so kick rocks… Only a New Yorker could write a post like this (in which they reference the MTA as a “disgusting cesspool”) and still consider it superior to another subway system based on it’s last run.
Have yet to see something quite this ratchet in Boston… MBTA > MTA
Now THAT is a cover letter
Will definitely give them a shot next time I’m in the neighborhood
I’ll be the first guy to order real gumbo, but once you eat a lobster from Maine or quahogs from Rhode Island, nothing else compares.
Anybody scoffing at New England has clearly never lived here.
Visiting Boston, taking a ducktour and walking the Freedom Trail like thousands of other tourists or skiing Stowe at Christmas doesn’t count. I grew up here and have seen many other regions of this great nation (including Grandex Inc.’s beloved south) and I can say that there isn’t another region of the country as unique as these six states.
Where else can you get beaches, mountains, snow, foliage and summer every year, all within a maximum of 4 hours of eachother? Now I understand that people down south will say they don’t need the seasons, but trust me, Christmas isn’t the same without snow. Oh, you’ve never seen that before? You have my simpathy.
Is it expensive? Yes (It’s one downside). Is it liberal? Yes (for better or worse). But once you live in one of (or more than one of) these six states, I promise you, you won’t want to live anywhere else (except Connecticut. You might as well live in New York).
1. Old industrial cities tend to be on the dingy side, but I’ve seen rats the size of housecats on the streets of some southern cities too.
2. 100 percent agree. It’s a chicken and egg situation with the roads: we have massive public transit systems because they’re so awful and we don’t feel the need to fix them because we have massive public transit systems.
3. Again, 100 percent agree, but it’s all relative. I’m no economist, but I’m sure there are plenty of recent postgrads having just as much trouble making ends meet in the south, even though it’s much cheaper.
4. The people suck? We may be terrible drivers who’re always be in a hurry and who curse like sailors, but at least we aren’t still proudly flying confederate flags (and proudly never did).
5. For a region of the country that plays football year round and puts it’s kids in pads in grade school, I’m kind of surprised that the cold bothers you guys this much (and for the record, I’d rather have Fall and Winter than bugs the size of Buicks).
6. As great as real southern sweet tea is, go snag a cup of Del’s Lemonade next time you’re in Rhode Island for business. Just as refreshing.
This guy is the Roger Ebert of Yelp reviewers
Not going to lie, this complex sounds like an upgrade from my current place of residence
Brilliant. Just brilliant. Love the Malcolm Gladwell reference, too.
Story of my life
GoodFellas > The Godfather Part II
“Hung like a horse, hair like a horseshoe.”
Vocals: Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
Guitar: Carlos Santana
Bass: Flea (RHCP)
Drums: Charlie Watts (The Rolling Stones)
Scotch neat… with a cigar
Knox strikes again!
That’s life in the newsroom, young blood
Can’t get enough of the “Local on the 8’s” soundtrack
Though it didn’t make the top 10 cut, leveling your overachieving cousin in the family touch football game has got to be somewhere in the top 15