Boston (the city) Has Lost Its Allure for Me (condo, day care)

[Boston Shudra]

Love me some Malden. Good town with some great restaurants and other amenities!

[TBideon]

Boston has what, 14 or 15 homicides? Clearly the city is doing something right.

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by TBideon

Boston has what, 14 or 15 homicides? Clearly the city is doing something right.

13 this year.

[msRB311]

Boston maybe hasn’t had a huge amount of homicides but there still seems to be plenty of crime happening where people are injured.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

13 this year.

Hmmm, that is actually pretty good - certainly if you compare to a perpetually troubled city, like Chicago - Chicago does have 4x the population of Boston, but they have 303/13= 23x the number of homicides so far.
https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/

...or to New Orleans, which has only 57% of Boston's population, but more than 149/13= 11x the number of homicides.
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_poli...1de4ad468.html

...or St Louis, which has only 44% of Boston's population, but more than 163/13= 12x the the number of homicides.
https://graphics.stltoday.com/apps/h...-tracker/2022/

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by OutdoorLover

Hmmm, that is actually pretty good - certainly if you compare to a perpetually troubled city, like Chicago - Chicago does have 4x the population of Boston, but they have 303/13= 23x the number of homicides so far.
https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/

...or to New Orleans, which has only 57% of Boston's population, but more than 149/13= 11x the number of homicides.
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_poli...1de4ad468.html

...or St Louis, which has only 44% of Boston's population, but more than 163/13= 12x the the number of homicides.
https://graphics.stltoday.com/apps/h...-tracker/2022/

Add to the list my hometown of Indianapolis...having a horrible year.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

Add to the list my hometown of Indianapolis...having a horrible year.

Yeah, Indianapolis is 26% bigger, but they have had about 8x more homicides so far this year. I lived in the Rochester, NY suburbs when I worked at Kodak, and Rochester is doing a lot worse in 2022 as well. I've not posted half the data I have seen, but I have to say that for a US city, Boston does not currently have a murder rate that is remarkable in any way - there are many dozens of US cities that are far worse, and I think Boston is about average, on a per-capita homicide rate measure.

[diegomar2007]

Originally Posted by City Guy997S

so subsidized housing and a BU scholarship aren't enough? Your 45, not 25! When are you going to start working and repay society

Ageism? Is that the hate I get for speaking the truth about Boston? I don’t know your age or if you are planning to have kids. But if you advise your kid in the same demotivating and demeaning way you tell me here, you are (or will be) a failed parent. A college education is lifetime learning, not only for a job.

Your comment sounds like jealousy or frustration, and I don't believe that it’s my fault I got a merit scholarship NOT BASED ON FINANCIAL NEED. You won’t be paying for it either. I guess you are one of those college-educated Bostonians who went to school for a job and became an expert in your field, but not in anything else in life. I won’t be studying on taxpayers' money or your money.

[MrDee12345]

I get the OP just came here to complain and pick a fight.

[WestieWhitie]

Originally Posted by diegomar2007

Ageism? Is that the hate I get for speaking the truth about Boston? I don’t know your age or if you are planning to have kids. But if you advise your kid in the same demotivating and demeaning way you tell me here, you are (or will be) a failed parent. A college education is lifetime learning, not only for a job.

Your comment sounds like jealousy or frustration, and I don't believe that it’s my fault I got a merit scholarship NOT BASED ON FINANCIAL NEED. You won’t be paying for it either. I guess you are one of those college-educated Bostonians who went to school for a job and became an expert in your field, but not in anything else in life. I won’t be studying on taxpayers' money or your money.

What exactly is that truth you’re speaking? All you did was throw a bunch of *isms around and whine about crime in your taxpayer-provided section 8 apartment located in one of the most expensive parts of Boston. As for merit given the fact that BU is run by honorable Ibram farraKhendi I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more by the merit of your skin color and orientation and less by the merit of your academic prowess.