can't you people look on the bright side for a change?
can't you people look on the bright side for a change?
Been everywhere. Least favorite:
--Boston
--Chicago
--LA
Funny post. I had to laugh at the "drivers are universally incompetent
- but they make up for the incompetence with aggression."
In fact I will try to spread that because it's a problem even in the Midwest.
around the block:
In other words it's bad every where.
I think it's actually good everywhere too, but you have to look hard sometimes.
This was a great and interesting thread. I read the entire thing because I haven't traveled much. It makes me think that people hate or love places because of the experiences they had during the time they were there.
Isn't it true that I could "step off the bus" anywhere in the world and hate what I see, smell, taste, touch, or hear? It's also true that I could feel like I was in paradise.
I have usually lived in a mid-sized city. It feels right to me because it's what I am familiar with. But I suppose now that I am older I could adapt to a smaller town. I guess it's mostly attitude.
No big city could truly be "boring" to me. I might hate some things about big city living, but it would not be boring. Currently I live in the country and I do not like it!
around the block wrote:
Been everywhere. Least favorite:
--Boston
--Chicago
--LA
Not sure what people find so off-putting about Boston. It's a pretty inoffensive city at worst, no?
Pros:
Great job opportunities in tech/engineering
Really good running scene
2 hour drive to the mountains
Lots of free/cheap events through universities
Lots of young, smart people around
No need for AC in the summer
Cons:
Traffic
Very segregated by class/race
Awful pizza
Public transport that shuts down at 12
Home prices/rent are too damn high
A little small
I'd nominate most southern cities I've been to. Atlanta, Memphis, Knoxville, Louisville...blah. Too hot, ridiculous sprawl, poverty, traffic. Charleston's nice, though.
this pretty much sums it up
whaaa wrote:
this pretty much sums it up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFepDzQsbE
Boo, that sucked. If you're going to make fun of Boston, just post this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IQCLQDfKwWhen I first moved here, a girl with this accent hit on me for 20 minutes and I didn't realize because I thought she was just slow.
Boston. The most un-American, treacherous, back-stabbing bunch of US Infantry Duty Avoiders in the whole 50 states.
What's with all the hate on Boston?
Boston's where the US of A began, ya know
Boston is un-American wrote:
Boston. The most un-American, treacherous, back-stabbing bunch of US Infantry Duty Avoiders in the whole 50 states.
Phily sucks way more than Boston. Phily & Boston are full of Muslims, Jews, Russians, Italians, Irish, and other excrement.
I found Milwaukee to be stunningly boring to the point of actually being depressing
DLR wrote:
Sacramento, CA. Dead, boarded-up downtown filled with aggressive, mentally ill homeless.
I agree. I live here and I hate it.
Dirty downtown, uneducated people (lower than state average for college graduates), horrible freeway system, polluted air, gentrification has killed the art galleries in Midtown, there are so many ironic bearded hipsters that you'd think there was an open casting call for a gay lumberjack movie going on every week, the American River Parkway path is too narrow for all of the pedestrians, runners and bikers, is now being overrun by homeless druggies and you can rarely see the river from it anyway. Oh, and the one former good thing about Sac, that is was 1.5 hours to Tahoe or the Bay is now a thing of the past with the constant influx of new residents. Gridlock, in the State House and on the roads. So glad I moved here.
Nashville for being overrated. Seattle for traffic, weather, and the Seattle freeze. LA for smog, sprawl, traffic, and people who think they're famous but aren't.
Ho Hum wrote:
Not sure what people find so off-putting about Boston. It's a pretty inoffensive city at worst, no?
I'd nominate most southern cities I've been to. Atlanta, Memphis, Knoxville, Louisville...blah. Too hot, ridiculous sprawl, poverty, traffic. Charleston's nice, though.
Boston smells. Every. single. time. The smell is on par with some 2nd world cities I've visited. People need to stop peeing everywhere!
For the South, I really like Memphis, Knoxville, Louisville (top 5 place I'd want to live), Birmingham, and lets add Houston.
Portland, Oregon is a piss hole full of white aboriginal case studies for Anthropology researchers without the budget to travel to filthy England.
Boston. They think their opinions matter.
Agree with you. Boston is just a miserable place in general. Overall the restaurants are mediocre, night life sucks, lousy weather in both Winter and Summer, full of snobs with not much to be snobby about. MIT and Harvard are both greatly overrated schools. Truly a place to avoid.
Portland is a s***hole except for a few square blocks of the NW district.
Bean Town full of hot air wrote:
Boston. They think their opinions matter.Agree with you. Boston is just a miserable place in general. Overall the restaurants are mediocre, night life sucks, lousy weather in both Winter and Summer, full of snobs with not much to be snobby about. MIT and Harvard are both greatly overrated schools. Truly a place to avoid.
Portland is a s***hole except for a few square blocks of the NW district.
As a Bostonian, I agree with your negativity. Imagine the Big Dig Hole, 6 years in construction, four years and $4 billion over budget and the traffic is worse than ever. Corrupt government, churches and rotten weather year-round.
But the winner for "worst" has to go to Belfast, Northern Ireland. Truly a divided city. The premier hotel is the Europa where during The Troubles, the it was known as Europe’s most bombed hotel, earning the name "the Hardboard Hotel (for the local term for plywood). Each side in the political struggle took turns blowing it up.
Sleep well ..
around the block wrote:
Ho Hum wrote:Not sure what people find so off-putting about Boston. It's a pretty inoffensive city at worst, no?
I'd nominate most southern cities I've been to. Atlanta, Memphis, Knoxville, Louisville...blah. Too hot, ridiculous sprawl, poverty, traffic. Charleston's nice, though.
Boston smells. Every. single. time. The smell is on par with some 2nd world cities I've visited. People need to stop peeing everywhere!
For the South, I really like Memphis, Knoxville, Louisville (top 5 place I'd want to live), Birmingham, and lets add Houston.
I agree with you about Boston but, the South!?!? Especially the cities you name?!?! Ridiculous! Anywhere in the American south is disgusting. The south is full of degenerate humans with disgusting world views. It's worse than the third world.
The only reason the south isn't nice is because all you northerners keep moving down here and ruining it.