Potholes?! You don't go to Boston to escape potholes.
Maybe it's the culture. Being the City of 10,000 Colleges, Boston has some nifty culture going on (not that N'Orleans doesn't, but it's... different culture). Although it also has the tendency to make people my age feel old.
And also possibly because it has the air of being a place of much tolerance. This is only partially true - all those college students bring a certain degree of activism and such to the city. Boston also has a history of implementing certain types of racial tolerance ahead of everyone else (including the very first black ghetto, back in the 1700's). This, of course, is a misleading impression; the "Us vs. Them" mentality runs as deep as everywhere else. But it's covered over by a pretty facade of tolerance.
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Maybe it's the culture. Being the City of 10,000 Colleges, Boston has some nifty culture going on (not that N'Orleans doesn't, but it's... different culture). Although it also has the tendency to make people my age feel old.
And also possibly because it has the air of being a place of much tolerance. This is only partially true - all those college students bring a certain degree of activism and such to the city. Boston also has a history of implementing certain types of racial tolerance ahead of everyone else (including the very first black ghetto, back in the 1700's). This, of course, is a misleading impression; the "Us vs. Them" mentality runs as deep as everywhere else. But it's covered over by a pretty facade of tolerance.
Or maybe it's just jobs. There are some there.