Cities that brag alot on this site? (beach, place, life)

[415_s2k]

Originally Posted by lrfox

Ouch! Really?

Most of us will defend our city when we we're attacked unfairly (i.e. "Boston's racist because of what happened with busing in the 70s." etc.). However, I think (on this forum, anyway) most of us are more than willing to participate in give/take debates. Go read the Boston v. Seattle thread for a great recent example. One of the most amicable "debates" on City-Data (that compliment extends to the Seattle C-D crew as well).

In real life, I find most Boston area residents are fairly down to earth regarding their city. You CERTAINLY get Sully and 'Murph who think it's the greatest city on earth (they also have never set foot outside the city limits). If anything, most idealize other places (Many up here think Florida is Shangri La) and would ask you "why" you choose Boston over a place like NYC (or Florida).

I know every city has homers and Boston is certainly no exception. However, I think the city's fairly easy-going about its place in the bigger scheme of things (if not a little more down on itself than it should be). On City-Data, I think most Boston posters are pretty level-headed.

I took a job about 6 months before I moved to LA when I was 18, and I told my boss I had a firm move date. He was originally from the Boston area and had lived in Boston itself since college. When I told him what was up, he said, "well, I most certainly support the idea of getting out of Massachusetts and to warmer, sunnier environs when one is young... so... I absolutely support you in this descision." The guy has never left MA, and probably never will. Same with my sister's boss of five years when she moved out here. Both are MA homers through-and-through, and they'd never consider living anywhere else, but they don't dump on other places.

...that said, in typical Boston fashion, everyone was shocked when I actually left. I pulled up to the hotel on my way to the Pike to get my last paycheck with all my crap in my car and they were like, "oh wow, so you're really doin' it, huh? Well, good luck out there..."

[jman650]

Originally Posted by SNEwx_46

New York but they have good reason

REASON maybe, but not the right to. Terrell Owens had a lot of talent to boast about too, but that didn't keep him from making a complete a$$ out of himself for behaving that way all the time.

Plenty of places have good reason to brag about stuff, but that doesn't realy make it a cool thing to do. And some people are absolute d-bags about it.

[nashvols]

That city with a lot of urbanity, density, walkability, vibrancy, Fortune 500 companies, a big skyline and lots of culture seems to get a fair amount of bragging on here.

[john_starks]

Originally Posted by nashvols

That city with a lot of urbanity, density, walkability, vibrancy, Fortune 500 companies, a big skyline and lots of culture seems to get a fair amount of bragging on here.

lol

[SNEwx_46]

Originally Posted by nashvols

That city with a lot of urbanity, density, walkability, vibrancy, Fortune 500 companies, a big skyline and lots of culture seems to get a fair amount of bragging on here.

you just described every thread in this section

[knrstz]

I notice a lot of people bragging about cities that they don't live in. Everyone is so quick to suggest Austin or Portland as the new promised land, whereas the people that live in those cities are very down to earth about the pros and cons of the areas.

[DynamoLA]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Which is why I rarely interject my personal opinion. Its not necessary.

San Francisco is lauded and heralded and celebrated by publications and surveys and rankings and polls all the time. I think some people struggle to accept that not all cities are created equal. Point blank.

San Francisco is specifically singled out here because its only 46 square miles but even then, SF is almost untouchable as far as desirability, as far as vibrancy, as far as being the center of an equally, if not more untouchable metropolitan region that is astoundingly productive and blessed with incredible natural surroundings and an incredible climate and so on. I could go on for days.

Some people can't deal with that.

I don't care. That's their problem.


Its already been decided and reconfirmed time after time in surveys, polls, rankings, reports, studies and statistics.

I'm trying to decide whether or not this is satire given the subject of this thread....

[cpomp]

Originally Posted by 415_s2k

I concur with you wholeheartedly. As a native Seattlite who spent their formative years in Cambridge while his dad finished up at Harvard, I am absolutely pompous, arrogant, aggressive, generally pretty awesome, and think of myself as a Bostonian

Let me prove a point...


It most certainly is. And Philly is Boston's shoe.

*sits back, cracks open a Sam Adams, polishes Doc Martens*

The point of that was?

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by 415_s2k

I took a job about 6 months before I moved to LA when I was 18, and I told my boss I had a firm move date. He was originally from the Boston area and had lived in Boston itself since college. When I told him what was up, he said, "well, I most certainly support the idea of getting out of Massachusetts and to warmer, sunnier environs when one is young... so... I absolutely support you in this descision." The guy has never left MA, and probably never will. Same with my sister's boss of five years when she moved out here. Both are MA homers through-and-through, and they'd never consider living anywhere else, but they don't dump on other places.

...that said, in typical Boston fashion, everyone was shocked when I actually left. I pulled up to the hotel on my way to the Pike to get my last paycheck with all my crap in my car and they were like, "oh wow, so you're really doin' it, huh? Well, good luck out there..."

Yeah, there's a lot of talk here and little action. However, there seems to be a lot of support for those who are trying something else (to the contrary, my girlfriend was from Maine and was chastised for *gasp* considering leaving for San Francisco... best decision she's made). MA has a LOT of homers. Especially once you get out of central Boston. It's a funny contrast in comparison to a place like San Francisco or LA where it seems like almost everyone is from somewhere else.

[415_s2k]

Originally Posted by cpomp

The point of that was?

Somehow, I figured you'd come out to respond to that...