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

[jeffisok]

Originally Posted by Lauren

Where do you live now and do you miss Massachusetts? Excluding the high cost of living, if you could afford to live here, would you prefer to?

I don't miss Massachusetts one bit. I've lived in 10 different states and have yet to find one worse than Mass. I left there as soon as I was old enough to get out. unfortunately had to move back there a couple of times for family reasons and both times stayed about 2 years and couldn't wait to get back out. I live in New York now (Have for the last 3 years) and would have to say it's comparable, but still better than Mass. (And fortunately i'll be getting out of NY as well and moving to Texas at the end of summer). If my family weren't still there I would never step foot back in Massachusetts. It's and ugly state (Except for Cape Cod). Most of the people are incredibly uneducated and outright stupid (There are exceptions). The laws are assinine, etc. I'd rather live almost anywhere else than back in Massachusetts.

Just my two cents.

[jeffisok]

Originally Posted by 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!

I miss the Chinese food (Fall River Style). It is the best Chinese food anywhere. Can't get it anywhere except there. Used to miss Linguica because it's so hard to find out of Mass. but Stop and Shop has started carrying it here on Long Island so that Made my day. I will miss it though once I relocate to Texas. Ah well. Sacrifices.

[artichoke63]

Originally Posted by jeffisok

I don't miss Massachusetts one bit. I've lived in 10 different states and have yet to find one worse than Mass. I left there as soon as I was old enough to get out. unfortunately had to move back there a couple of times for family reasons and both times stayed about 2 years and couldn't wait to get back out. I live in New York now (Have for the last 3 years) and would have to say it's comparable, but still better than Mass. (And fortunately i'll be getting out of NY as well and moving to Texas at the end of summer). If my family weren't still there I would never step foot back in Massachusetts. It's and ugly state (Except for Cape Cod). Most of the people are incredibly uneducated and outright stupid (There are exceptions). The laws are assinine, etc. I'd rather live almost anywhere else than back in Massachusetts.

Just my two cents.

I've lived in a lot of different places too, and I can say that even in the towns I wanted to get away from, I could always find something about them I enjoyed and missed. No place is all good or all bad. Every place is full of compromises and Massachusetts is the same. It's one of the most educated states in the country, so how you could find everyone stupid is bewildering to me. And the old architectures in Boston and rolling green of the Berkshires is breathtaking. I hope you find more happiness in Texas but if you're the type to paint everything all black or white, chances are it's just a matter of time before you don't like it there either.

Artie

[puffle]

Originally Posted by artichoke63

I've lived in a lot of different places too, and I can say that even in the towns I wanted to get away from, I could always find something about them I enjoyed and missed. No place is all good or all bad. Every place is full of compromises and Massachusetts is the same. It's one of the most educated states in the country, so how you could find everyone stupid is bewildering to me. And the old architectures in Boston and rolling green of the Berkshires is breathtaking. I hope you find more happiness in Texas but if you're the type to paint everything all black or white, chances are it's just a matter of time before you don't like it there either.

Artie

so true, Artie. Are you going back for a visit soon? I am counting the months,weeks, days and minutes.

[artichoke63]

Originally Posted by puffle

so true, Artie. Are you going back for a visit soon? I am counting the months,weeks, days and minutes.

Hi Puffle,

I hope to get back there over the summer. I still haven't decided where to move to yet. It just gets more and more confusing the more I look. I'm afraid to move to the South. I've always lived in liberal places and I don't know if I'm ready for the bible belt mentality. I don't really mind L.A. that much but for the high cost of living. I don't want to pay so much for rent anymore.

Artie

[starzfalldown]

I lived in Georgia for seven years. Though the weather was nice, the people outwardly friendly, the lifestyle fun, and many many people my age- I had to move back. New England, Mass in particular flows through my veins like my blood itself. I am in fact a Mayflower descendent. I vowed to come back and work to make New England a better place, even if life is a bit harder. There is no substitute for our open and vast culture. Though in my life I would like to have a second home in the South- GA, TN, SC pref. I will never leave New England on a full time basis again. If ya cant make it in Mass- go to NH or southern Maine. Both are up and coming! Southern New Hampshire is growing quite fantastically(I'm a pro growth liberal type) and Portland, ME is heavenly! So much art, such excellent food, laid back lifestyle, and the weather is just about like Mass... only they have a more consistent winter which I personally prefer to our soggy, muddy, rainy ones!

PS... GREAT THREAD!!!

[starzfalldown]

Originally Posted by artichoke63

Hi Puffle,

I hope to get back there over the summer. I still haven't decided where to move to yet. It just gets more and more confusing the more I look. I'm afraid to move to the South. I've always lived in liberal places and I don't know if I'm ready for the bible belt mentality. I don't really mind L.A. that much but for the high cost of living. I don't want to pay so much for rent anymore.

Artie

You will be immersed in that "Bible belt" mentality. Not just that... but the Neo-Con movement. Talk about wanting a utopia! These people buy into "anything for business" letting their environment go, looser labor law, poor infrastructural investment. We'll see where this get's them in 20 or so years when their cancer and illness rates rise, workers are abused, and the traffic and smog are so bad! already the case in Atlanta, my FORMER home!
New England might be rough, old, and standoffish... but we have ALOT to offer!

[starzfalldown]

So all these people that claim the second the left Mass their illnesses went away, they lost weight, they became a happy person. Did you ever stop to think you could have stayed and accomplished the same things here?
I mean or is the grass just always greener somewhere else? Are you overlooking the flaws of other places? Like pollution in Texas, racism that is still everywhere in the South, intolerance, poor labor law... etc etc etc.

The South is built like a deck of cards, heavily dependant on Federal money- which in this Congress is about to shift direction from the southeast to the northeast, and growth- which thanks to India and China is about to slow down. People only move to where the jobs are. And when youre a corporation in Boston, NY or Philly I think the next stop is Calcutta and Beijing... not Atlanta, Dallas, Raleigh-Durham. And then in the case of Atlanta you get high foreclosure and depressed real estate(3rd worst in the US) smog, HORRIBLE traffic not just urban traffic, a 3 billion dollar sewer upgrade that state is dragging its feet on, a water problem waiting to happen, 50th in the country SAT scores, and corruption in a very needed road project(Northern Arc) so bad that they just decide to scuttle the whole thing. And the property taxes as a percent of market value arent all that great either people!

I'll take cold, old, ugly Yankee New ENgland anyday! Besides... this place actually is changing for the better, too many choose not to see it. Zoning law changes are putting more supply in the market here- smaller houses, townhouses, and many many more apartments being built. Not to mention so many New Englanders are adding on and renovating their houses at an amazing rate! This place is actually cleaning up. Come back- drive around, open your eyes and mind a bit. We're also about to legalize gambling which will likely give us the second or third largest casino in the WORLD. New businesses and commercial renovations are skyrocketing.

Not to mention first in the nation universal healthcare well on its way. Equality for ALL of its residents. I'm straight and am proud of our decision on gay marriage!

Y'all left. And you took the old Massachusetts attitudes with you.
44th in size, 13th in population, 6th in wealth.
We're the 5'2" guy that will kick your ass!

So there... there's my rant!

[Noodle]

Everything you "love" is the reason I want to bail. Have fun.

[atltransplant]

I live in Atlanta now and I am trying so hard to come up with reasons that I should not miss ma. I grew up in worcester, and then went to school on the north shore and lived in Boston. I would do anything to go back there. it broke my heart just to read the title of this thread.