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Huh? Cambridge is absolutely part of Boston for this discussion. It’s 364.4 Smoots and an ear over the bridge. If you can take the T to it, it’s Boston.
The obvious MA counterpart to New Haven is Cambridge, period. Why exclude the Boston area from the comparison--because it's too favorable to Massachusetts? New Haven might come off well next to Cambridge--it's certainly more affordable, high rents aren't as ruinous to local businesses as in Cambridge, NH has excellent (for the US) railway service, the collegiate gothic Yale architecture may be more imposing and romantic than Harvard's homespun early American look, the Yale museums may have more to offer, the New Haven Green beats Cambridge Common, the pizza has no parallel, steamed hamburgers...
Hartford loses in its Boston matchup except that it offers a metropolitan economy and all the amenities that go with that at much lower cost than Boston.
The obvious MA counterpart to New Haven is Cambridge, period. Why exclude the Boston area from the comparison--because it's too favorable to Massachusetts? New Haven might come off well next to Cambridge--it's certainly more affordable, high rents aren't as ruinous to local businesses as in Cambridge, NH has excellent (for the US) railway service, the collegiate gothic Yale architecture may be more imposing and romantic than Harvard's homespun early American look, the Yale museums may have more to offer, the New Haven Green beats Cambridge Common, the pizza has no parallel, steamed hamburgers...
Hartford loses in its Boston matchup except that it offers a metropolitan economy and all the amenities that go with that at much lower cost than Boston.
New Haven faces a(deserved) bad reputation and in my opinion, subconscious racial bias. It’s a wonderful city. We’re is located where New Bedford is (in MA not CT)-it’d be thriving.
Hartford suburbs are in generally more practical and well manicured than Boston’s imo, but just slightly. It doesn’t really have urbanized suburbs aside from East Hartford. Add to this it has much less traffic and a stellar income:housing ratio and traffic is generally reasonable (still an obstacle though). It has some nice benefits .
What happened to make you dislike Lawrence so much? I think it's vibrant enough (with lots of great mom and pop stores and restaurants) to be ahead of at least Taunton and Fitchburg.
And the thing I like most about Haverhill is that it might be (?) the only MA city to annex/agglomerate with its suburb(s). Like, let's be real: Bradford would be more like North Andover if it could. Likewise, Lawrence might be as nice as Haverhill if North Andover were its neighborhood rather than its neighbor.
Lawrence has amazing architecture. Like out of this world nice and pretty cool downtown. But Lawrence has nj vibes.
Connecticut has a much more standard and melodious American English accent than anywhere in Massachusetts, save Berkshire County. The urban accents in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are, quite possibly, the most grating and unintelligible in all of America.
Downtown Lawrence is dead and the city has some of the absolute worst and laziest bastardizations of the triple decker you’ll ever see.
I'm talking about the warehouses downtown. Or the old textile factories on the Merrimack.
Outside that, is why I rated it a 0.
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