sextonseven said:

Yup sounds like Boston alright!

FunkMistress said:

I have to be, huh? Maybe it was Cambridge

CarrieLee said:

Cambridge definitely has some rich areas: Brattle Street, where the former governor and Alan Dershowitz live. Then there are the projects. Just like Washington DC!

OOOOOH I think I was thinking Chestnut Hill

CarrieLee said:

Now THAT sounds right!

I have always been in love with Boston for some reason, I really want to spend time there. So far I've only spent a few hours there wandering around...whats that old market area called again, its quite touristy now? We were skiing in Vermont, flew to Boston. But I want to work there, live there, know what all those things in Carrie's list mean... I am drawn to it

susannah said:

Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall!

CarrieLee said:

THATS IT! Well I was gutted, cause I was already in love with Boston and the whole highlight of the trip was passing through it on the way there and the way back, I knew there were much better things I could have seen, I'd read all the bloody lonely planet books lol! It was a school trip though, so

I will definitely go back, I want to work in the states and Boston is #1 on my list :dream:

susannah said:

Here, I'll give you one: 14. You know how to pronounce the names of towns like Worcester, Billerica , Gloucester , Peabody and Haverhill.

1. WUSS-tah.
2. Bill-RICK-uh.
3. GLOSS-tuh.
4. PEE-buddy.
5. HAY-vuh-rill.

FunkMistress said:

I knew that one!! I like the accent

I know a few others too, but hell thats why I want to live there, not visit, when I've never even really visited properly; cause you can never know things like that unless you actually live there. Its a totally different experience. And I want that experience, the list!

CarrieLee said:

LOL...West Roxbury is one of the least diverse neighborhoods of Boston. Its also a relatively wealthy area...full of single family homes, 1/2 millin dollar houses, politicians, police and firefighters. There isn't a seedy part in West Roxbury...Are you sure you were in West Roxbury?

FunkMistress said:

Newton, like other surrounding cities is NOT boston....and Newton is quite lame....omg...what a snooz

paintedlady said:

Hey...what's wrong with that?

StillGotIt said:

Carrie must be talking about the Tattoo parlor by Dudley Sq.
[Edited 3/27/08 15:25pm]

paintedlady said:

YES! Dammit I fucked that one up too huh? I guess it's just plain ol' Roxbury! I'm south shore and usually drunk.

CarrieLee said:

Are you sure you're from Boston?

paintedlady said:

I think this is the perception because of all the problems that occurred when they were busing and integrating public schools in 60s and 70s. And also because Bill Russell received a lot of hate mail and his home was constantly broken into by racists. Plus the Sox were one of the last baseball teams to integrate and relatively recently actively recruited African-American players. So there's definitely a public perception that Beantown is racist. I'm not saying that it still is just that there's some basis for the perception.

StillGotIt said:

Newton is definitely soccer mom central. But, hey, I'm a suburban boy, and I gotta raise my kid.

paintedlady said:

That said, wasn't it in Roxbury that the gorilla escaped from the zoo a few years ago and was found waiting in a bus stop?

CarrieLee said:

Well, the food at Shangi-La was incredible.
Can you recommend a place just as good to go to?

Lammastide said:

Animals are constantly escaping outta that zoo... yeah and that was JoJo LOL!!

Now they have two tigers

I was attacked by an escapee emu... not fun.

CarrieLee said:

OK, that's why.... that's like saying I am from LA, but you really live in Oceanside.

CarrieLee said:

Wow...I've never had the experience you are describing. How were you harassed? What made you want to hide your purse and run?

CarrieLee said:[quote]



15. Anyone you don't know is a potential idiot until proven otherwise.



Man thats my life motto.

Guess I need to move.


[Edited 3/27/08 23:32pm]

When I transfer to Ottawa later this summer, Boston is going to be one of the first places I visit. I want to experience the high of seeing a Dunkin Donuts on every corner. I may even take a detour on the way up to Ottawa.

StillGotIt said:

The harassment was the typical getting up real close and the "hey baby nice this nice that I wanna do this to you" crap. I didn't feel like I had to hide my purse and run, you misunderstood me....it was more like some people would feel they have to do that but I didn't. Are you getting what I'm putting down...because it's early and I haven't had my coffee yet

1DirXtion said:

I was born in Boston and have lived there, as well as across the river in Cambridge. To be sure, most of my years have been spent elsewhere (Midwest and West Coast). But I'm proud to be a Bostonian by birth, and I try to visit the area at least once a year. Most of my extended family is still in that area, and my grandmother has a nice place on the Cape, just a few blocks from the beach.

BTW, I always smile when I see those "Cape Cod Resident Tunnel Permit" stickers on people's front bumpers.

CarrieLee said:

I actually lived in the Combat Zone. This was well after its heyday... 1998, to be specific. But there was still an adult movie theater in the same building as my apartment.

Living in Moscow now but going to Boston in August to start college - can't wait!
So hold on guys!..

StillGotIt said:

Absolutely nothing love the bean!