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Boston at least used to be . . . a relief for people who don't want "nightlife" to be the center of young adulthood.
I think Boston is still like this (at least the one time I visited a few summers ago). There are more low-key places to hang out throughout the city without in-you-face "nightlife."
In Chicago, River North is the "trendy nightlife district," but outside of that, in the actual neighborhoods, you have more low-key bars/spots. I think at the neighborhood level (where many non-tourists are), Chicago, Boston, and Philly offer a good number of these types of non-"nightlife" options.
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And of course, that was during Atlanta's heyday years for Black nightlife also in the post-Freaknik/post-Olympics era. Buckhead Village used to be quite the experience, and last call used to be later also.
That decade was the best for nightlife period, when social media was a thing but not so all-consuming that it prevented people from interacting in person and when all of the best spots hadn't been bulldozed for new apartments and condos. And Black folks were feeling extra happy after November '08 lol.
I basically split half of my free time the 2000's decade back and forth between DC, Atlanta, Miami etc., and it was definitely a toss up. Atlanta owns the club scene now, and always had better strip clubs, but DC's mega club scene was special for Black nightlife prior to 2010. DC is really a lounge city now, but still prior to Covid had a decent spread out night scene.
When? To hear my parents tell it, Boston was pretty crazy back in the day when the Combat Zone still had strip clubs, when Kenmore Square still had hardcore rock clubs, when gay clubs/bars like Machine and Ramrod were more prevalent and active, etc.
Yea I have always heard that Boston was a lot more fun. Even Dudley Square and Roxbury had movie theaters, multiple night clubs, strip clubs, multiple outlets. I heard every place was a lot more fun and raw back in the day.
I think Boston is still like this (at least the one time I visited a few summers ago). There are more low-key places to hang out throughout the city without in-you-face "nightlife."
In Chicago, River North is the "trendy nightlife district," but outside of that, in the actual neighborhoods, you have more low-key bars/spots. I think at the neighborhood level (where many non-tourists are), Chicago, Boston, and Philly offer a good number of these types of non-"nightlife" options.
Boston is not really a relief it just is. No one has to move somewhere to "escape" nightlife, that's silly. It happens at night, downtown. Just don't go or don't live on top of it.
Boston -so far as I can tell- felt that cracking down on the combat zone, happy hour, nightclubs in inner cities (Barritz Lounge, and Rosco's in Roxbury for example) would stem crime. It did-until crack hit. But it probably is responsible to some extent for a lower level of crime, it just comes at a cost. Now that that norm has been established it's hard to peel back.
A series of things happened to restore order to Boots in the early/mid-1980s and I think ti had really quelled vibrancy by ~1994. Only since 2014 when Marty Walsh became mayor have there been any efforts at improving the situation.
Baltimore Blacks sound closer to Philly/Del/ South Jersey than anywhere in the South, (save for the "tew" "yew" and "dug". They do not sound like they're from Alabama.
Blacks in DC also aren't Southern in their speech. It's a distinct accent which his heavy on the rhotic "err", but the accent is not country, like the Midwest or South. They don't sound northern or southern, just distinct. Blacks in DC don't say "awww" for "all", or "deedie" for "Daddy" like Ohio or Chicago Blacks do.
Chicago Blacks talk southern.
DC blacks definitely sound southern as a nonnative.
Yea I have always heard that Boston was a lot more fun. Even Dudley Square and Roxbury had movie theaters, multiple night clubs, strip clubs, multiple outlets. I heard every place was a lot more fun and raw back in the day.
My dad owned a nightly in Faneuil Hall in the 80s. It was poppin. He said New Yorkers looking for fun in a far safer area would trek up in the 80s .. but it went downhill fast. And now Boston has as much nightlife as an Ivy League Librsry
My dad owned a nightly in Faneuil Hall in the 80s. It was poppin. He said New Yorkers looking for fun in a far safer area would trek up in the 80s .. but it went downhill fast. And now Boston has as much nightlife as an Ivy League Librsry
blame Ray Flynn. Mel King would've kept it going. Boston got what they voted for...
this is why its important Kim Janey runs for a full term.. the only potential candidate with a pulse for arts and culture at all.
boston. theyre both tremendously small. and half of their subways run thru outside of their city borders.
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