Boston is without a doubt the worst place I have ever lived.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by simplexsimon

In the town I'm in kindergartners are with grades 1-5 on the bus and are picked up and dropped off at the bus stop, but an adult needs to be at the stop with them.

That's how it was for us. it seems absurd to pick up every kindergartner at their house. I would imagine this has attributed to terrible traffic if many towns are doing this.

[Stone28]

Sorry wrong thread.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by carejourney

the weather is terrible

Over the past year, yes the weather has been terrible. But on a typical year, I don't see what it so awful or exceptional about our weather. I can think of many places that are worse.

[kateskouros]

Originally Posted by nobodyyouknow

I'd really like to know how out of towners survive here

i think they have a better attitude.

[bostongymjunkie]

OP created this thread 11 years ago and I don't think they ever came back, and here it is still going.

[WestRiverTraveler]

Originally Posted by nobodyyouknow

So I came here from Los Angeles kicking & screaming due to my spouse's job. Obviously the weather isn't going to sit well with me. My experience has been long and brutal winters, a non-existent spring (mostly rain), humid summers that warrant 2 showers a day with the beauty of the tropics. Fall is so-so but living for fall seems sad.

We actually live in Newton which is 80% white and have had more than enough racist encounters.

While the food scene is growing it's at least 10 years behind the times and the segregation saddens me i.e. no Little Tokyo (downtoan la), Little Saigon Westminster), koreatown, armenian village etc. I have eaten a lot, and I do mean a lot and my decent meals have been few. In two years I've eaten at two-3 places that I would take out of towners to....providing I could find parking.

My experience with Somerville & Cambridge is why don't they just gate the whole town with two entrances/exits where residents show their pass to enter. It doesn't inspire me to check out my new unfortunate home. For the record Somerville is 7.5 miles from my home in newton and to take the MBTA i would have to take 3 busses and 1 train. It would take approximately 75 minutes and cost 11.25. That just seems whacked to me.

Move into town? Well when we first got here my spouses's job put us up in a apt. in Brookline. Another unfriendly parking city especially when out of town guests come to visit.

I don't feel any buzz or excitement and the independent commercial stores are just rundown, terrible looking and full of crap as is the majority of art I have seen which surprises me given all the youth. Having been to Portland Maine recently it seems to me the youth moves up there where it is more affordable? This would go for Portsmouth as well.

Boston is notorious for navigating and I get lost too often (as does spouse) even with a GPS!

On a slightly positive note, when the trees "pop" in the "spring" it is nice and I do appreciate all the parks, walden pond, the audobon parks. the lack of a horizon/mountains makes me crazy and attributes to my lack of a sense of a direction.

I'd like to understand the physics of road deterioration. h20 expands in the cold, got it, I figuredthe water would mostly be out of the cement? Does the snow and salt really do that much damage? really, the roads here are horrible. That allston/brighton strip leading into boston! Jeez.

I could go on and on and on and on.

I'd really like to know how out of towners survive here/

Funny. A good friend of mine moved out to LA for about a year. He came back with nothing nice to say about LA. He called it a miserable place with great weather.