Boston sucks. I\'m born and raised here and I moved back but I\'m well aware that it sucks and don\'t plan on staying forever. Here\'s the thing that fools people...
Some towns, when you live in them, you know they suck. Like Hartford or Albany or Trenton or Springfield, MA etc. You know you\'re a third-class citizen every moment you\'re there.
On the other side, some towns, when you live in them, you know they\'re great, like Denver or San Francisco or Austin or Boulder or Raleigh or Chicago. You know things can\'t get a whole lot better when you live there.
Then there are towns that sucker you into thinking it\'s cool, until you spend time somewhere that\'s actually cool. Then you say to yourself, "Damn, I thought I lived in a cool place, but now I realize that it sucks." Boston is the classic example of this. It\'s good enough that you don\'t immediately think it sucks, but once you live there and then see some alternatives, you realize.
Also, Boston gets an artificially inflated rating because half the population are college undergrads who have just left their podunct towns for college, so they all think it\'s the greatest thing ever when in fact it is not.
BTW that 18+ curfew rumor made me laugh. I haven\'t heard a doozie like that since Phish rumors were all the rage. The fact of the matter is that there is no city-wide curfew change on anything. I do wonder though if the lighted signs would have caused such a ruckus if the logo had been for a trusted brand like Coca-Cola, or even better, Merrill-Lynch, instead of a bird-flipping mooninite.
