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I don’t think Boston’s budget is actually that big compared to similarly sized cities. It’s tricky since universities and hospitals can’t be taxed and together, those things take up a lot of land and jobs in the city.
Mass and Cass themselves don’t have many people in them right now. Not sure about the nearby streets to the south. There’s still a decent amount of litter but fewer junkies I think.
Boston's city budget is going to be about $4 billion for a city of less than 700K residents and 90 sq miles, whereas Philly has under $6 billion for ~1.6 mil residents and ~140 sq miles. The per square mile difference isn't huge, but the per capita disparity is noticeably better for Boston. I am sure a big part of it is "cultural" too.
Yeah this is about right. Both places seem very clean to me overall, although DC does have a good amount of rats you'll see, but the streets in both Boston and Washington are among the most well kept I've seen in major cities. By comparison LA is a dump in a lot of places, the freeways look dirty to me. SF already has a rep for dirty streets much like Manhattan.
Boston has real rat issue but you’re simply not gonna see a lotta rats or anything negative in Bostons core outside of DTX, Chinatown and the common to a lesser extent.
I also don’t find Manhattan all that dirty apart from the trash pick up practices. Bronx is a different story.
Boston's city budget is going to be about $4 billion for a city of less than 700K residents and 90 sq miles, whereas Philly has under $6 billion for ~1.6 mil residents and ~140 sq miles. The per square mile difference isn't huge, but the per capita disparity is noticeably better for Boston. I am sure a big part of it is "cultural" too.
Baltimore has a 4.11 billion dollar budget.
San Francisco’s is 14 billion.
New York City is 100 billion.
Phillys budget is just low. And the culture is more tolerant of blight and trash.
Interesting, but I don't find Baltimore or New York any cleaner than Philadelphia. So I guess the budget theory of cleanliness is flawed, lol.
Difference between mid Atlantic and New England. Albeit Boston was pretty dirty before Mayor Menino, so the old heads told me. And some of the other New England cities that aren’t as prosperous bare pretty dingy/dirty especially in their downtowns. But not to the extent of like… Newark.
Boston didn’t strike me as exceptionally clean. It’s fine, but I didn’t think it was above average for a city that size. The cleanest cities I’ve visited in the US were Greenville, SC, Sarasota, FL and Orlando.
Boston didn’t strike me as exceptionally clean. It’s fine, but I didn’t think it was above average for a city that size. The cleanest cities I’ve visited in the US were Greenville, SC, Sarasota, FL and Orlando.
For a large, legacy city with pre-industrial roots (ie, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, SF, Chicago, etc) is what the comparisons are. Obviously places like Greenville SC and Charleston SC are cleaner... but they aren't on the same level. Suburban cities like Tampa, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix are a lot harder to make accurate comps for, as they are suburban cities/metros.
Although... I don't find Orlando to be clean in the 8 years I lived there. Homeless people everywhere downtown and unmanicured medians.
Boston's city budget is going to be about $4 billion for a city of less than 700K residents and 90 sq miles, whereas Philly has under $6 billion for ~1.6 mil residents and ~140 sq miles. The per square mile difference isn't huge, but the per capita disparity is noticeably better for Boston. I am sure a big part of it is "cultural" too.
Boston is 48 sq miles. The other 40 miles is ocean.
Boston is 48 sq miles. The other 40 miles is ocean.
Oh right, I always forget that part. That's a good city budget per square mile then! Lots of $ to clean the nooks and crannies.
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