Why would anyone want to live in the New England???????

horace greeley wrote:

No, we have just lived other places that have much better year round weather.

My Father (a lifelong New englander) used to feel the same way you do. "The weather here is just fine, why live any where else" he would say. He now lives year round in Florida and laughs at the year round folks up north. "the weather up there is lousy until July 1st, not worth the trip north anymore" Amen

Florida? FLORIDA?? I think we just have the opposite idea of what bad weather entails. Having lived plenty of other places, New England weather is my favorite. We get a real winter, gorgeous falls, and mild summers. My only complaint is the ridiculous home prices and traffic, but it's nothing compared to California and goes away once you leave Boston.

You are deserved inferiority complex? What does that even mean?

The Overexplainer wrote:

Lol @ the ol' gun nut wrote:

I know, I know, the evil liberals of Boston. Just because you feel that they think they are better than you doesn't mean they think that. (but they ARE better than you. Maybe that's the problem, you're deserved inferiority complex).

Go shoot yourself A--Hole)

[ps not from Boston, but can't stand OLD SMTC dude)

You are deserved inferiority complex? What does that even mean?

It means he's a moran....oops moron.

RI red wrote:

OLD SMTC SOB wrote:

Main Rd, Tiverton at the entrance to the road leading to the transfer station.............about 2 miles or so north of 4 corners.

Of course! Forgot about it. Live south of the 4 corners up Windmill Hill but in the next town. Run often on Pond Bridge, Neck and Seapowet Roads.

Great place to run and bike, I've been running in Weetamoo lately as well as Simmons Mills. Not quite the mountain running I loved to do when in CA but nice, none the less.

horace greeley wrote:

No, we have just lived other places that have much better year round weather.

My Father (a lifelong New englander) used to feel the same way you do. "The weather here is just fine, why live any where else" he would say. He now lives year round in Florida and laughs at the year round folks up north. "the weather up there is lousy until July 1st, not worth the trip north anymore" Amen

You almost sound serious posting this. There are a lot of places in the US with nicer year round weather. Florida is not one of them.

I can understand how one might complain about New England winters, but they aren't particularly bad in Massachusetts and south. It rarely goes below 20F. You have to be rather soft to have trouble with that. Florida summers, on the other hand, are unbearably hot and humid.

I lived in Maine for 10 years, after moving from CA, first winter I was there for an entire week when I got up in the AM it was 30 below, without the wind chill. Talk about shrinkage.

If it's good enough for Gisele Bundchen, it should be good enough for an ugly loser like you.

Sleep tight, ya' pvssy.

So when did you see Justin Gatlin, Tori Bowie, or Arman Hall moving from Clermont to Boston? I know it can be done if you're going to MIT (which has not one, but two mondo surfaces you can train on) and if you're a sprinter, since I went there and my NCAA eligibility was used up before I got there. Where you train is the Johnson indoor track (outside 4:30-7:30 M-F when it's reserved for the team) and the Steinbrenner track outdoors. Charlie Francis trained people at York in Toronto, so what's so bad about Boston?

Is this as good as Clermont, Gainesville, Texas, SoCal? No, it isn't. Harvard probably has more Olympic medalists than Oregon, but they're almost all rowers except Meredith Rainey-Valmon quite a while ago.

No one cares that you went to MIT, so if you could stop bringing it up that'd be great.

So far the best endorsement is the winters aren't "that bad".

All the mountains look the same and are barely mountains. The beaches are cold. The cities are awful and the rural areas are poor and racist. As far as people claiming the food is excellent, GTFO.

It's a miserable region that people bend over backwards to defend. It's probably no more miserable than the Deep South or Midwest, but nobody dreams of moving to New England. California, New York and to some lesser extent the Mountain West are the places people dream of.

AuntBee wrote:If it's good enough for Gisele Bundchen, it should be good enough for an ugly loser like you.

Sleep tight, ya' pvssy.

A Donald Trump supporter is good enough for Gisele soooo . . .

......,...... wrote:

nobody dreams of moving to New England. California, New York and to some lesser extent the Mountain West are the places people dream of.

Cut the crap, troll. Tons of college kids end up staying in the area after graduation each May. It's a major reason rent and real estate is so expensive.

Ernie Boch Sr. wrote:

......,...... wrote:

nobody dreams of moving to New England. California, New York and to some lesser extent the Mountain West are the places people dream of.

Cut the crap, troll. Tons of college kids end up staying in the area after graduation each May. It's a major reason rent and real estate is so expensive.

Most of the colleges are crap. So their options are limited. The largest Harvard alumni club isn't Boston.

And if you think Boston is expensive, take a gander at a desirable place to live like Silicon Valley, SF, or NYC.

....,.... wrote:

Ernie Boch Sr. wrote:

Cut the crap, troll. Tons of college kids end up staying in the area after graduation each May. It's a major reason rent and real estate is so expensive.

And if you think Boston is expensive, take a gander at a desirable place to live like Silicon Valley, SF, or NYC.

Hahaaaaa... Take a gander, troll.

Every single person from NE that's serious about skiing/climbing/trail running/outdoors moves out west at some point. I'm from Seattle - and ive met hundreds of climbers and backpackers who moved to WA for better mountains.

I live on the east coast now for work, and I cannot even force myself to ski here - it is that boring...alpine climbing is nonexistent...yeah they got the gunks...which is super overrated..NE sucks for the outdoors compared to the west. Anyone that disagrees has not spent time skiing/climbing/trail running in WA, CA, Utah, Montana etc. Whiteface, Stowe, the gunks, north conway, mt washington....wouldn't even make the guidebook or list of places to ski climb in any major western state.

I often stop by climbing/ski shops here to check out the gear. Whenever I tell the young man working the counter I'm from Seattle, his eyes will get wide and he'll say, "I want to move there, Mt Rainier, North Cascades, Whistler...."

I concede that New England has a nice charm, architecture is beautiful, fall is gorgeous, and education is unmatched. By my daydreams are filled with adventures out west.

I should really take a pay cut and move back....(nah...I like money too much).

Ernie Boch Sr. wrote:

....,.... wrote:

And if you think Boston is expensive, take a gander at a desirable place to live like Silicon Valley, SF, or NYC.

Hahaaaaa... Take a gander, troll.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/080916/top-10-most-expensive-cities-us.asp

Boston is behind SF and New York on that list and the median housing price is $200k lower than San Jose, a much larger city. It's also $100k or more lower than DC, LA, Oakland and SD. So good job proving the guys point? I guess?

This may be the first time in history anyone argued that Boston is higher cost of living than Silicon Valley and that's a plus. You probably didn't go to one of the good schools. Suffolk State?

I agree with the general theme of your post, and will offer my experiences. I am originally from the Southeast US, and finally moved out west in my early 20's. I was always a trail runner, but fell in love with rock climbing/mountaineering, and generally exploring the never-ending wildernesses that the west has to offer. I have spent the last 8 years or so working my way through Colorado, Utah, Washington, Oregon, and California.

Like you said, the skiing, trail running, coastal scenery, and mountains are unmatched out here. The best the east coast has to offer in those regards would barely get an honorable mention in a guidebook of say the Pacific Northwest or California/Colorado. HOWEVER, even after all this time spent out here, there is something I have always felt was missing, and I think it was the real human element. I have spent time/lived in Portland, Seattle, Bay Area, LA, San Diego, and the CO Front Range. While they all have their positive characteristics, there is still something special about bustling east coast cities that I think the west can't touch.

West coast cities feel almost mundane and contrived to me, while IMO east coast cities naturally flow with an abundance of history, architecture, intellectual endeavors, SEASONS, arts, and vibrance. For wilderness getaways, every person should spend some time out west. For the real human experience (positive and negative), people should live in or visit a major east coast city.

And I should clarify when I mention east coast cities, I'm essentially referring to Washington DC and the cities north of that. Apart from the food, the southeastern US sucks a**, and there is nothing in the world that could make me move back there =)

YMMV.

Them Apples wrote:

No one cares that you went to MIT, so if you could stop bringing it up that'd be great.

Coach D went to MIT? Explains why he doesn't understand some of the basic physiology and kinesiology of sprinting. Don't get me wrong, I've met some smart people from MIT, but more often they are posers and incompetents.

Someone said the New England colleges are "overrated?" Which ones? Harvard? MIT? Amherst? Williams? Brown? Dartmouth? Middlebury? Wesleyan? Tufts? Brandeis? Bowdoin? Colby?