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completely agree except for ignoring Boston's incredible/amazing parks near W. Roxbury/Rozzie/JP, Brookline etc. The 2 cities both offer highly accessible/ functional park experiences.
The delta of diversity of culture/ people for SF/ Boston seems wayyy overblown, imo.
additional note: i made sure to highlight Brookline.
The rest of all that green is Boston's Rozzie, W. Roxbury, JP & Roxbury neighborhoods.
click over to Earth imagery.
Both cities are amazing, some of the best cities in the USA. I'd personally have to go with SF and the Bay Area though since I was born in California and it's more "like home" than any east coast city would be. Boston looks like such a cool city, very european like, walkable, dense. Also Boston is now more expensive than San Francisco, which is a shame. I should also mention both cities and their metros are known for their punk/hardcore scenes. So if you're into that like I am, you can't go wrong with either city.
Boston is not more expensive than SF -_- absolutely not
There a huge chunk of affordability in Boston that simply doesn’t exist in SF these numbers will tell you a completely different story. You can still find 2 bedrooms under 2100 in Bosotn and 2 bedroom condos for under 350k…
As soon as you go outside Boston city limits it gets cheaper from there. Boston is by no means more expensive than SF lol. You’re not buying a 2 bedroom condo in SFs equivalent of the south end for $400k.
The thing in Boston is many of the larger Victorian multi family properties and triple decker go on sale with 11/12 bedroom that and the sticker prices of the bran new units (half of the ones on sale) inflate the price of Boston wayyy wayyy above what most people actually pay.
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- Languages spoken: Not sure. Probably rather close. Maybe San Francisco
Makes me wonder about the distribution of languages spoken by the Chinese here. With a 1/3 Chinese population, I feel like there must be small communities --- not really advertised or put on maps --- speaking not just Mandarin or Cantonese, but Fuzhounese, Wu, etc.
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- Benefits from location: Boston (Closer to Europe and Northeast cities)
This one's debatable imo. I feel like people in the Bay Area as a whole --- though many of them (especially in SF) are carless --- utilize NorCal's national parks and forests more than people in the Boston area utilize the other Northeast cities. Although maybe Cape Cod tips it back in Boston's favor...?
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- Vibrancy of downtown: San Francisco[/b]
Been here recently? It's pretty desolate downtown (excluding Chinatown).
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- History: Boston
I might have been skeptical of this before I moved here and started doing more research, but now I totally agree. SF is old by west coast standards but most of the city really isn't as old as I thought. Most of the Sunset District (~southwest 1/4 of the city) wasn't really developed until after the 1906 earthquake, and some areas not until the '40s or '50s (!)
This one's debatable imo. I feel like people in the Bay Area as a whole --- though many of them (especially in SF) are carless --- utilize NorCal's national parks and forests more than people in the Boston area utilize the other Northeast cities. Although maybe Cape Cod tips it back in Boston's favor...?
I guess I can’t speak for the whole of the Northeast, but I go to NYC and MTL fairly often. I have at least 2 coworkers that drive to Philly many times a year.
And remember that there are a lot of great destinations in New England! People from other parts of the Northeast/Canada flood the area in the summer to go to the beaches in Maine or Rhode Island or the Mountains in VT or NH!
Boston easily. It's a cleaner, better looking city, that is better for us Americans of the African diaspora...
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