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I guess it depends on what you meant by "culture" and "people"
Both cities have large Spanish-speaking populations compared to most US cities (although true, the spanish-speaking population is far more integrated in Miami). Comparatively speaking, someone coming from San Diego and moving to Miami would have a much easier time acclimating than someone from Seattle, Minneapolis or Boston.
Good grief? Is this the same “depends” as you saying it depends on how you measure busiest border crossing in a different thread when thinking Windsor, CN has more commuters to Detroit than Tijuana, MX does to San Diego?
Miami and San Diego’s cultures are nothing alike. It doesn’t matter if said group is speaking Spanish or English, neither are very similar.
In a few years, I'd say San Diego/La Jolla for the scenery, weather, activities, and also access to the Biotech cluster there. Right now, Bay Area. Still the best place to be for tech+biotech ops.
Again, as BostonBornMassMade has also said, the situation today is NOTHING like it was during debussing in the 1970s. Its still not a stellar place for race relations, but its improving drastically. The fact the mayor declared racism an emergency for the state is something you wouldn't see in Red states. It still has a lot of work to do, but over the past 5 years... tremendous progress and equity has been established in the city. I work in a Community/Urban Planning group in an underserved part of Boston and many orgs are proud of the work made in the city. A lot of the conversation even exists just because Boston is ultra-progressive. However, if we ross the Charles into Somerville/Cambridge.. its a whole different ballpark over there. Although its collectively still ~60-65% White, the Camerville area is a lot more BLM and tolerant than the city of Boston.
Also the suburb in MA I grew up in was HEAVILY racist. Complete night and day to where my family lived in Boston city proper. Im willing to bet alot of experiences POC experience in Boston are from racists/homophobes who live in the homogenous suburbs, or somewhere like New Bedford or NH. Especially at Red Sox games, or whatever the case may be. I think theres a lack of attention at suburbs across the region.
You can literally say this about the entire nation. Almost every other major city no longer has a reputation for being racist, though they once most likely were racist. Boston is one of the very few ones that immediately come to mind as still being racist. That’s not by accident. Boston doesn’t get ANY points for being less racist now than it was in an era where racism was much more acceptable.
I think it’s even more shocking that you mention that over the past five years, there has been tremendous progress. I mean, we’re decades removed from integration and just now Boston is starting to see real progress that the majority of the nation already has? If that’s not an indictment on Boston, idk what else is.
You can literally say this about the entire nation. Almost every other major city no longer has a reputation for being racist, though they once most likely were racist. Boston is one of the very few ones that immediately come to mind as still being racist. That’s not by accident. Boston doesn’t get ANY points for being less racist now than it was in an era where racism was much more acceptable.
I think it’s even more shocking that you mention that over the past five years, there has been tremendous progress. I mean, we’re decades removed from integration and just now Boston is starting to see real progress that the majority of the nation already has? If that’s not an indictment on Boston, idk what else is.
I think you are missing the point here. Boston is taking steps other cities haven't even approached yet. Boston is allocating 20% of its police budget to support the fight against systematic racism and just recently declared it a public health emergency. Other mayor's of Major cities would argue systematic racism doesn't exist....
Your analysis is unfair and extremely bias with no contextual evidence that it is by far the worst major city for African Americans. You are supporting your "claim" with what someone says or a reputation it holds. By no means is it utopia, but to say it's the worst city for African Americans is a typical conservative piece of mindset.
However if you are willing to give statistical evidence to show how City of interest is worse than City B, City C and City D... I would be willing to listen. However this bullcrap with "I hear _____ is ____ based on listening to ______" is udder crap.
I think you are missing the point here. Boston is taking steps other cities haven't even approached yet. Boston is allocating 20% of its police budget to support the fight against systematic racism and just recently declared it a public health emergency. Other mayor's of Major cities would argue systematic racism doesn't exist....
Your analysis is unfair and extremely bias with no contextual evidence that it is by far the worst major city for African Americans. You are supporting your "claim" with what someone says or a reputation it holds. By no means is it utopia, but to say it's the worst city for African Americans is a typical conservative piece of mindset.
However if you are willing to give statistical evidence to show how City of interest is worse than City B, City C and City D... I would be willing to listen. However this bullcrap with "I hear _____ is ____ based on listening to ______" is udder crap.
When on earth did I ever assert this? It seems as if you’re upset and have resorted to making things up.
Also, “my analysis is unfair”? You appear to be getting emotional which would suggest you’re the one with the bias. Factoring in your post history about Boston just solidifies this idea. I have absolutely no bias at all. In fact, I posted a thread about me moving a couple months ago with Boston as a possibility.
I’m glad Boston is taking steps to correct its negative history and reputation. Again, it probably feels it needs to make up for all of the negative perception. Good on them. It proves the city realizes the impact of a stigma.
Finally, I don’t need statistical evidence to prove anything. I’ll rely on the countless testimonials of an assortment of sports players, celebrities, and others with a large reach and influence. I recognize probably every city in the US has racism. But it seems only Boston gets frequently and specifically called out and singled out by the people of influence I’ve mentioned earlier as being the most racist place they’ve been in. Like I said before, that isn’t by accident. If you don’t like what I’m saying and it doesn’t jive with your narrative, that’s fine by me. Doesn’t change the stigma.
When on earth did I ever assert this? It seems as if you’re upset and have resorted to making things up.
Also, “my analysis is unfair”? You appear to be getting emotional which would suggest you’re the one with the bias. Factoring in your post history about Boston just solidifies this idea. I have absolutely no bias at all. In fact, I posted a thread about me moving a couple months ago with Boston as a possibility.
I’m glad Boston is taking steps to correct its negative history and reputation. Again, it probably feels it needs to make up for all of the negative perception. Good on them. It proves the city realizes the impact of a stigma.
Finally, I don’t need statistical evidence to prove anything. I’ll rely on the countless testimonials of an assortment of sports players, celebrities, and others with a large reach and influence. I recognize probably every city in the US has racism. But it seems only Boston gets frequently and specifically called out and singled out by the people of influence I’ve mentioned earlier as being the most racist place they’ve been in. Like I said before, that isn’t by accident. If you don’t like what I’m saying and it doesn’t jive with your narrative, that’s fine by me. Doesn’t change the stigma.
One last salvo: it’s “utter,” not “udder.”
By singling out a particular city to be the most racist on the list with absolutely no statistical evidence or valuable insight to support that claim is what I am talking about.
I'm not getting emotional, It's just annoying when people use outdated stereotypes projected against a city. Its incorrect and gives a false assumption about a city. If I came and called your city terribly racist, worse than every other city in a group based on outdated stereotypes.. you wouldn't be too happy either. Boston gets a lot of crap for being uber- liberal and having a racist past but it's no different than a lot of other cities out there. So calling Boston would mean you would have to call Every other city racist too.
Wow, this is tough. But if I could get a job as a remote software developer, I'd move to the Southeast, or DC. The Southeast is just so much greener and more scenic than urban California. Also, I like the summer rain in the Southeast and the warm summer nights. A bit of light snow every year like they get in the Southeast is also fun.
I voted Atlanta because of that. It's a truly global city with the world's busiest airport, a very central location, close to beautiful mountains, home to soul food, the Western Hemisphere's largest Aquarium, and a bunch of other world class museums. And of course amazing, 45 minute laser light shows every summer night at Stone Mountain! Decent Asian presence there, too, and dirt, dirt, dirt CHEAP real estate. Sprawl at its bloody finest!
Second choice might be DC. Great weather, only strike against it is that it's expensive. But the suburbs are super clean and safe with awesome transit (and a squeaky clean, fast, and convenient subway), very close to big airports, and DC proper is always a pleasure to visit.
Wow, this is tough. But if I could get a job as a remote software developer, I'd move to the Southeast, or DC. The Southeast is just so much greener and more scenic than urban California. Also, I like the summer rain in the Southeast and the warm summer nights. A bit of light snow every year like they get in the Southeast is also fun.
I voted Atlanta because of that. It's a truly global city with the world's busiest airport, a very central location, close to beautiful mountains, home to soul food, the Western Hemisphere's largest Aquarium, and a bunch of other world class museums. And of course amazing, 45 minute laser light shows every summer night at Stone Mountain! Decent Asian presence there, too, and dirt, dirt, dirt CHEAP real estate. Sprawl at its bloody finest!
Second choice might be DC. Great weather, only strike against it is that it's expensive. But the suburbs are super clean and safe with awesome transit (and a squeaky clean, fast, and convenient subway), very close to big airports, and DC proper is always a pleasure to visit.
Tysons is great and relatively inexpensive for being right outside dc. I probably would do there or some satellite DC city connected by rail
Tysons is great and relatively inexpensive for being right outside dc. I probably would do there or some satellite DC city connected by rail
Oh yeah! And I LOVE the DC Metro. It's very fast for a subway system, and the CLEANEST subway I've taken in the US. In terms of cleanliness, I'd say it's comparable to Vienna or Munich U-Bahn's.
Tyson's growth and scale and skyline is AMAZING!!! It blows any suburban edge city on the West Coast out of the water. Even Bellevue, WA can't hold a candle. Century City? That's still in LA proper. Having been used to the decaying, dirty infrastructure of the Bay Area and Sacramento (I'm looking at you, BART), experiencing the TOD awesomeness of NoVA made me feel like Marco Polo from dingy, poor Dark Age Italy being absolutely wowed by prosperous, monumental, clean, and efficient Imperial China.
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