Do you miss massachusetts? (Boston, Fall River: real estate, property taxes, houses)

[Nanseev]

I can't believe out of all of these responses that NO ONE has mentioned the chinese food???? I MISS Massachusetts chinese food. I can't get a good chicken finger anywhere! It's all this crap chicken....

Sure, I miss the seafood...I miss the chowdah...I miss not having a Dunkin Donuts on every corner....I miss the tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurants that served the best food....but I really, really miss good chinese food!

[hiknapster]

Yep. I'll go along with the Chinese food observation and the hole-in-the-wall restaurants, too.

I also miss the grinders. Sure they call them subs elsewhere, but they are not the same.

I just can't find decent places to eat in the south. Not like New England, anyways. I guess we really know how to eat!

[smarty]

My experience with Chinese food in the West (Los Angeles) is that they are much cheaper and better. Most Chinese do not even bother cooking at home. You can get a cheaper and better meal eating out. (and pu-pu platter is NOT real Chinese)

I also had the same Chinese food experience in Toronto. It cost a third less than Boston and twice as tasty.

Anyone know where can I get cheap and good Chinese food outside of Boston? Hate to pay $10-20 for parking.

[billw810]

I miss the superior seafood up there and the Chinese food as well. I also miss most of my friends. Moving to Florida in 2004 was a big mistake thinking it was cheaper to live...it's not. Taxes are more, insurance is more, groceries are more, and the population is way out of control, traffic is much worse here than up there and so isn't the crime. I also have to deal with all the annoying New Yorker's that are down here that root for the Yankee's on a day in and day out basis. But I have to admit it was sweet in 2004 while working for Tom "Flash" Gordon who was on the Yankee's at the time, when he personally lost two of the games to our Sox. It was great to shake his hand and thank him, especially after he had bought me a Hey Pedro Who's Your Daddy? t-shirt after game 3. Give me Plymouth, Boston, and the Cape any day!!!

[Na16v]

I have been living in Houston for about 9 months now.
What I miss:

-Dunkin Donuts, there is one about 45 minutes from my house, and that's it.

-East Coast Hip-hop

-Puerto Rican food

-Puerto Rican Spanish

-A little more enviornment awareness. People here don't recycle, and abuse the heck out of natural resources(water, gas for the big trucks, etc.)

-Public services. DMV in MA was a massage parlor compared to the retarded TX system of sending you to 3 places to get a car registered and making you wait for hours.

-Mom and pop breakfast joints...man I miss my homefries

-Papa Gino's, D'angelo's, Elio's Pizza, and Kelly's roast beef.

And defintely the Chinese Food!!!!

Now I don't miss the weather, the high price of old crappy houses, cars rusting out, the racism, and the class based prejudice.

[deem]

Quaint massachusetts - grew up in Dedham - great place for growing up in and moving out of - miss the seafood, cape cod, gloucester and believe it or not NH - have been back to CT and RI for business lots - don't miss those areas at all
Did love the city of Boston - eateries, pubs, schools,
Live in the Phx area for the past 20 yrs and now moving out - for again big city; but this time in the dry desert heat
No I would not move back to Mass - not at all like when we grew up - less malls, streets, cars - enjoyed the outdoors - so off to Idaho and Montana -
I do appreciate the New England Taste that was bred in me for family life and appreciation of the outdoors

[deem]

oh my god
never mind the chinese food and Italian food...
what about the bruins and the Red Sox - Fenway Park, Copley Square
CLAm Bakes at the shore, nantasket Beach in the summer
miss it for sure - move back nah -
DOn't ever want to ruin such great memories....

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by Miker2069

...Lobster roll...nothing beats it! anyway pretty much that's it- oh yeah, Red Sox fever in late August ...

That's what I miss. Lobstah and the Sox!

I don't miss the weather and the politics! And the foliage here in NC is just as nice in the fall, without having to go through all that winter afterward

[jak]

I think the point that when in your life that you lived somewhere will have an effect on whether you miss the place or not. Grew up in Ohio, family still there, and don't miss it. I moved to MA after graduating college and lived there for 13 years before moving out of state to Austin, TX. I can say that I miss MA more than we thought I would. Lived in the Andover/N. Andover area.

DON'T MISS
- Traffic
- Stressful downtown driving and parking craze
- Winter being so long. Especially Jan-Feb when it's so cold the inside of your nose freezes.
- Ticks and misquittos.

NOT AS BAD AS I THOUGHT
- Property taxes are not that bad in MA.

DO MISS
- The wonderful friends that we made (young and old). Our family was not in MA but our MA friends become our families and we never spent a holiday alone.
- Being able to say it the way it is or even joke without people taking it the wrong way or getting offended.
- The little downtowns that each town has with a diner, coffee shop, book store, etc.
- The smell of the wood fireplaces in the fall/winter.
- Apple picking in the fall
- MA towns have great libraries
- Our little neighborhood.
- Ogunquit, Maine!!!!!
- Being able to drive to other states in a short amount of time.
- Fall, the first winter snow, spring (after the snow is gone and the ground is not just mud anymore), summer.
- Sometimes miss hearing the Boston accent.
- The passion for the Red Sox.
- Andover Christmas parade, 4th of July parade and pancake breakfast.

Would I go back? No, but maybe yes. We've only have been away for 2 years and most say it takes 2-5 years to get acclimated to a new place.
Two weeks after we moved to TX and still had our MA plates on our car, we were checking out new houses when this family of 5 all dressed in Red Sox gear and true Boston accents came knocking on our car window. We were at their house for a BBQ within a month and are still friends today. They'll never go back to Boston they say but they will still stay true New Englanders in heart, attitude, and wardrobe.

Austin is easy to get around and with the weather usually nice there is always something going on. People are friendly and it's easy to make new friends. Typography is beaustiful and hilly. Live in an area with great schools, sidewalks, and lots of kids for mine to play with. But...still miss our family-like friends and the look of New England. Plan to visit MA/ME this summer and hopefully get my fill then.

[james dillon]

hello from arizona,,thought i would say a few words sense its around 85 right now wife misses mass ..but mostly the family ,,i miss my daughters in mass they live in gardner,,area and the other one lives about an hr from millers falls,,i make good money in arizona ,,i want to return to mass but as for money i dont want to struggle in mass for a job,,,and end up in the employment line,,,ima licensed security officer lvl 2 .who knows maybe i could get a security job back east in newhampshire were i lived before,,,,,