Do you miss massachusetts? (Boston, Worcester: how much, house, purchase)

[scarletfire]

Hi Lisa, I think you mean the Arnold Arboretum
www.arboretum.harvard.edu/ - a lovely place to visit, especially when the lilacs are in bloom.

I grew up here in Massachusetts, spent about three years in the Bay Area which had its pluses but it took moving across the country to realize I loved New England - although my husband still thinks I'm crazy to want to live with the winters here!

[fuzzduckie]

I went to school at Berklee in the early 80's. I moved to PA in 1984. I still miss the area. The incredible concerts. The intellectual world with MIT and Harvard in particular.
We were young and smart and the world was ours to explore and create.
We would change the world.
A couple of years ago, I got to visit Boston with a friend who lives in Mission Hill. (Mission Hill is the same. LOL. Except it's gentrified now).
For years after I moved to PA, I kept dreaming about my old neighborhood in Central Square.
And finally I got to go to Central Square, Cambridge. My old tenement on Brookline St. is now owned by MIT. There's a incredible HUGE painted mural there on the other side of the street. And playgrounds
It's not as "funky" now...
I just missed the closing of Manray, by just a few days. Ouch!
The Brookline Lunch is called something different and is owned by Mediterranean folks. You can get baklava there now.
Also, the subway is actually clean now...And everyone reads on the subway.
Boston is an intellectual paradise!
Yes, I miss Massachusetts!
But who the heck can afford to live there?

[emeraldcoupe]

i live in florida but i'm from east wareham. i really do miss it. i've been down here for 20 years now. i feel myself getting homesick alot lately. i've only been back twice since i left.

[Lisa_from_Debary]

I love New England and always will...but don't get me wrong...my daughter and I spent a week on Sanibel Island off the coast of Florida in January, we played in the warm waters of the gulf, collected sea shells as big as my hand, I ate wonderful seafood all week, when we weren't swimming in the ocean we were swimming in the pool...

It was wonderful, especially the trip out to Cayo Costa, only a couple houses the rest a national park...you have to take a boat out there and there were very few people there...we collected so many shells we could hardly carry them all...On the way out and back there were dolphins playing in the surf along side the boat...the waters around Fort Myers are warm and there is enough food that the dolphins hang out there all year...

[sally0]

I miss my home state but as I learned in criminal justice, MA, is a police state. Cape Cod is the absolute worst. If I could live anywhere in MA, it would be Rockport but it's too expensive. It's almost out of MA and a short distance to NH and ME. Alot of people commute from MA to live in NH where there is no state income tax.

[Lisa_from_Debary]

Originally Posted by sally0

I miss my home state but as I learned in criminal justice, MA, is a police state. Cape Cod is the absolute worst. If I could live anywhere in MA, it would be Rockport but it's too expensive. It's almost out of MA and a short distance to NH and ME. Alot of people commute from MA to live in NH where there is no state income tax.

I absolutely LOVED Rockport, itsn't that the city that has Plum Island right there?
I used to do some nice antique shopping in Rockport.

[jusplainjesse]

I am a torn soul. I live in South florida right now and i love it. The warm weather, the beautiful beaches, majestic palm trees. but i recently went to CT and it was just close enought to remind me of life in Burlington and Woburn, MA...god i miss it up there. dont get me wrong...i could live the rest of my life without another day of below zero temperatures and be happy, but a nice sled run is an amazing thing to somebody who lives a life devoid of snow, or hills. And i must say...dis it all you want, but nothing is better than a nice boston accent. I miss mine (i have pretty much lost it, except for the occasional dropped r). it would be nice if i could live in both places at once, but that would make me a snowbird, and, well, we just cant have that.

[OREGONRAIN]

I think I miss things about it more than I miss the whole picture of living there. I miss the small towns, and the cape in the off season. I miss there was alot less crime and drugs at least where I lived in Mass than where I live in Oregon. I miss more of the neighborhood feel there also, and knowing people for years and years, less transient in Mass and New England in general. I don't miss the high high cost of living or the lack of choice in car insurance and the cost of that there also. I don't miss the long cold winters especially if it was a real snow and ice year. However I am glad I am from New England I would not have wanted to be from anywhere else.

[OREGONRAIN]

I think in many ways if it was not so expensive and not as cold, I would prefer to live there, in the towns not Boston.

[quisqueyas]

I have been away from Mass for 2 1/2 years and I don't seen to get confortably ajusted here. I am here in Houston, TX and don't ask me how I ended up in a State so different to what I once called home. I miss Boston riding the T and going out without woring about my surroundings as much as I do here. What I mostly miss in Boston and the surronded areas are my friends and family, and all the places and activities we use to chare.
I think you get the point..........