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Every large city has felt the affects of the pandemic, including Dallas (I was just there actually), and New York without a doubt will enter a full recovery within a year, especially once Broadway is a go. Each week the city changes for the better, not an exaggeration.
Back to original point...Boston was never really "fun" (nice city though), so New York and Boston shouldn't be in the same sentence for fun. Next, yes some people moved and its temporarily quieter, but what do people expect?...the "New York is over" storyline is really something, and maybe stems from a subconscious idea of New York losing its place as the most dominant American city? I don't know... No other city seems to get the same flak as New York in that regard, and its exaggerated, I am the one who lives here, so I know...
I ask that question because I've been all over the country work in recent months, most recently to Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Charlotte and Tulsa. Some cities are recovering faster in different ways, but how exactly is "basically anywhere else" more fun than New York? I didn't see it during my travels...
Boston is plenty fun...just not if your idea of fun happens 1 - 2am and is based on a top tier club scene
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Boston is plenty fun...just not if your idea of fun happens 1 - 2am and is based on a top tier club scene
NYC (and other cities) are just as fun if not more fun than Boston sans clubbing.
With clubbing, it's a blowout to the point where it's not worth comparing. Columbus likely has a better club scene than Boston, let alone Dallas or DC. NYC is light years ahead.
NYC- I think Queens has the largest concentration of Indians in the city proper and there is something akin to a Devon Ave. I don't if the Boston metro has an equivalent. And of course, there's Jersey City, which I know you don't want to move there because of isolation but it's right across the river. Wouldn't it be the equivalent of traveling to Manhattan from Brooklyn?
Boston is plenty fun...just not if your idea of fun happens 1 - 2am and is based on a top tier club scene
Not true. Its not that fun. Its okay. That's a cop-out answer, plenty of reasons its not that fun...
*no happy hour
*minimal brunch scene
*minimal public music/public art installations
*neighborhood events often don't feature structure programming/food/drinks
*too many residential neighborhoods lack formal dining spots
*lack of ethnic/economic diversity in central areas
*repetitive theming for bars/lounges
*very few rooftop dining experiences
*lack of day parties/pool parties
*lack of budget eats/late night eats
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Source? Per the numbers in this thread it’s a difference of 90k in Bos vs 141k in Chicago on the CSA level.
I’d like to compare just the 128 to just Chicago proper but I don’t think I’ll have the time to pull the numbers any time soon. There are also large Indian enclaves in a few further out suburbs that might make up a large portion of the community in the metro area vs just the 128 cities. Not sure.
It sounds like you just pulled the Chicago ideas out of thin air, and that you have limited knowledge of Chicago. Chicago has Devon Avenue, which is Little India, and Chinatown, arguably the only Chinatown in the U.S. that is growing and thriving. Metro area, the Northwest suburbs and Naperville are huge Indian areas. Having lived in Brookline, there is a far greater Indian presence in Chicago than Boston.
I would go NYC on this. If you can afford to buy, now would be the time. I just saw a condo on line that was purchased for $499,000 in 2012 in Manhattan and now is $199,000. Cheaper than rent, or at least rent a couple of years ago. Crazy, and everything is cyclical.
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Not really true. Some sunbelt cities are really back to pre-covid traffic.
Doesn’t mean much when you consider the scale. Raleigh, Nashville, etc. don’t compare to NYC with or without restrictions.
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It sounds like you just pulled the Chicago ideas out of thin air, and that you have limited knowledge of Chicago. Chicago has Devon Avenue, which is Little India, and Chinatown, arguably the only Chinatown in the U.S. that is growing and thriving. Metro area, the Northwest suburbs and Naperville are huge Indian areas. Having lived in Brookline, there is a far greater Indian presence in Chicago than Boston.
No, I knew that Boston was more Asian than Chicago, but I had to drill down to see that Boston is very Chinese while Chicago is very Indian. So yes: the Indian presence in Chicago is bigger. However, it’s definitely less than twice as large (whereas another poster said it was 3x as large).
I already posted something to this effect up thread..
Doesn’t mean much when you consider the scale. Raleigh, Nashville, etc. don’t compare to NYC with or without restrictions.
No, I knew that Boston was more Asian than Chicago, but I had to drill down to see that Boston is very Chinese while Chicago is very Indian. So yes: the Indian presence in Chicago is bigger. However, it’s definitely less than twice as large (whereas another poster said it was 3x as large).
I already posted something to this effect up thread..
Scale means little when a single strip in the south has more vibrancy than a whole Neighborhood in NYC.
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