‘Channels the inner Bostonian’
- Expensive? Hell ya.
- Freezing? Gimme a break, don’t be a pussy.
- Difficult to navigate? T is always fuckin broke and late, driving blows. Don’t know where you’re going - just ask dipshit, we’ll set ya straight.
- Unfriendly? Fuck you. We’re wicked nice.
- Food? You must be fuckin blind son. Food here is pissa!
- Did you mean the original Boston? I think your tea is done brewing in the harbor.
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Unfriendly? Fuck you. We’re wicked nice.
First time I visited Boston, I was lost somewhere in downtown and walking in circles. Must have passed a postman one too many times because he just briskly walks up to me and, gesturing with a handful of mail, abruptly asks, “whadaya, fuckin lost?”
He then proceeded to give me very clear and accurate directions to where I was going.
One of the interesting things about Boston is that the average person you bump into doesn’t have the typical Boston accent. There are too many immigrants, international students, etc. for that accent to dominate. But, certain jobs: postal worker, cop, firefighter, public transit worker, etc. that mostly hire locals. So, your announcements on the T are mostly always done with a strong Boston accent.
That tea would be disgustingly weak. We did the maths. Of course we did the maths.
Difficult to navigate? The roads are designed entirely around the premise of “FAHK YOUU!! You don’t know how this road works? Moron!” Source: lived there. Want to go to Salem? Nope. One of my favorites is the tollway from the airport to downtown. If you miss the last exit or go the wrong way on 1, guess you’re going downtown because fuck you. Downtown is a mess of one-ways, turn only lanes, and no, two rights will NOT have you going in the opposite direction. Fuck you, you’re now going to Worcester on the Masspike. Have fun.
Yes, have fun. Worcester’s great. Check out Kelly Square.
Literally spending Christmas there because of parter’s family in a few weeks. It’s not the worst place I have been to, but it is expensive, the people shout at each other mostly in heavy accents, and there is nothing to do. The food?
Somehow they messed up seafood.
Just came back from a long weekend in Boston, and I loved it. It reminded me very much of Dublin where I live:
- Expensive as hell.
- Weather forecast is never right.
- You can understand the locals only when they are drunk.
But the food was great, and the T was lightyears ahead of the Dublin metro system.
Did people start cheering and weeping tears of joy when they heard your accent?
Haha, no. I was tempted to visit Paddy’s Lunch, but being in Boston I opted for clam chowder, a good burger (where you actually get to specify how you want it made), and some Italian. I was mildly amused when I walked by a pub that advertised a band called The Gobshites. Certainly won’t help to dispell Irish stereotypes.
The Gobshites
I hope they’re a really bad Gob cover band
the T was lightyears ahead of the Dublin metro system.
Wow, Dublin’s metro must suck. Boston’s subway is good by US standards, but it’s one of the worst of any major city I’ve been in elsewhere. The Green Line is more a tram than a subway line, and has that horrible tight turn under Park Street. For a city the size of Boston it has a decent number of different subway lines, but the whole system is old and poorly maintained.
Dublin metro was first planned in the 1980s. A definitive plan was finalized last year, and the construction was supposed to start next year, bur at the last possible moment a group of residents near one of the planned terminuses blocked it in court because the construction would “cause them undue stress”. So, if we’re lucky, the metro construction will begin within 50 years of the original plan. Ireland is thus remaining one of the very few European countries with sizable population, without a metro. Despite running such huge budget surpluses that we sometimes refuse to collect taxes from the multinationals.
In Boston, I stayed close to Alewife. The red line was decent to get me to the city centre, and I had two good bus connections to Lexington where I also had some business to attend to.
Oh wow. AFAIK Boston’s is the oldest one in North America, more than a century old now.
Yeah, the red line is, IMO, Boston’s best line. But, that was also partially based on where I mostly travelled. But, I imagine the red line probably receives a bit more attention than the other lines because it’s the line that serves Harvard and MIT.
During my visit, I heard from some locals that they prefer thin crust pizza to deep dish. Found that both funny and agreeable.
Why is that funny or surprising? Boston is not known for its deep dish; that is Chicago.
Thought Chicago was known for the weird-ass sauce on top of the cheese pizza.
That’s “Detroit”.
Nah, you’re mistaken, making a mislabeled pasta that is mislabeled as pizza is firmly a Chicago thing!
Detroit Deep Dish is an excellent thicc and crunchy crusted cheese-carmelized indulgence born of factory workers, whist Chicago “pizza” is a shit lasagna the domain of disappointed tourists and locals too dense to realize the sauce goes under the cheese!
No, Detroit has (optionally) a couple lines of sauce on top, and most places I know that make Detroit style skip the sauce lines. Chicago style has sauce on top of the entire thing.
Though I just looked it up and it looks like there are multiple different “Chicago style” definitions.
Chicago style is a kiddie pool of a crust filled with an alarming miasma of sauce and toppings (bafflingly, placed under the sauce). It’s more of a “savory pie” than a “pizza-pie”. Great for if you want to drown a toddler in a food item; not so great for folding up and eating as you walk around town.
They can be tasty. I just object to them being classified with the rest of the pizza genus, because they’re wildly different in terms of construction to any other pizza species.
Pizza means pie.
Pizza means pizza. Pie in Italian is torta or crostata
It’s a casserole
Yeah, a bit off the rails right now.
Chicago gives a dark name to deep dish. In that cursed city, they misname their shitty lasagna so!
No british people there
And that’s just great.
There’s plenty of good food in Boston.
Suuuch ass?
There’s no need for name calling just because you disagree
Maybe they like big butts and can not lie?
“Established Before You Were Born”
Nah there’s good food in Boston. They have a marvelous Italian neighborhood. Them mfs cook
More than just good food. The North End alone is full of world class culinary institutions. Everything else is right enough for a meme but the food line couldn’t be more wrong.
Depends on how much of asshole you are. I had no problems the brief time I was there.
assholemasshole
masshole
I’m not from there so I can’t be a masshole.
Not calling you that just a misunderstanding maybe. It’s a common joke that people from Massachusetts are assholes, hence the name Massholes.
That was me being flippant.
I went in January, cold but nothing I’m unaccustomed to as a Canadian.
Clam chowder was decent at least what I tried. Public transit was usable. People were nice there in your typical American sense, but NYC shops had more heart for strangers and visitors comparatively. But I was only able to really scratch the surface from my day trip there.
My one visit to Boston (American) was for part of a day. The people were nice, food was good, and the harbor was very accepting of the loose tea I threw in it.
But I’m glad it was during summer.
Show me a cheap city with a warm climate on a grid system with amazingly friendly people, and I’ll show you hell on Earth.
Go Sox!
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Adelaide? Might not be cheap though
They throw a pretty great tea party. Everything else is as described.
Boston is awesome for it’s green spaces. Probably my favorite city to walk a far distance. So many parks. So many huge parks.
Boston is fantastic. Yes you have the mass-holes but as long as you aren’t driving it’s great and when you actually look for food there are plenty of great places.
As a Masshole, yes, please don’t drive when you come here. You will be in someone’s way and catch a glimpse of the state bird:
when you actually look for food there are plenty of great places.
This is the key. In my experience, the larger, more obvious places are mediocre, but the small holes in the wall you could easily walk past and never realize they’re there have some fucking amazing food more often than not.
How is the public transportation there?
Excellent by American standards for most of Boston and Greater Boston, which is to say mediocre by European standards. It’s entirely possible to be independently mobile and car free there. Most places are walkable and there are pleasant old buildings and green spaces or plazas or spots overlooking water to stumble upon. It’s a lovely city.
Speaking of my town just outside Boston ……
The food is just like the British: we have great Indian food
