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What do you miss most? |
Anonymous
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Okay, I'll start: I miss being amongst really bright, happy people. This area is too one-up for me. The people seem REALLY nosy. I just didn't notice that there. It may not be geography specific - but I have never heard some of the questions I hear until I moved here. In Boston, I was accustomed to being amongst successful people who aren't overly interested in asking a million personal and/or inappropriate questions, because they have their own successes. They aren't looking for fodder for gossip! I wonder how to deal or answer to that? Oh yeah, and I really miss fresh seafood! It's a quality of life/lifestyle adjustment, it seems...... |
Anonymous
| Chacarero sandwiches!!!!! YUM |
Anonymous
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They do not have an agenda in Boston, because (as mentioned) they have their own accomplishments. |
Anonymous
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Great fireworks last night - Neil Diamond "Sweet Caroline!", skyline, happy people...... Was that song about Caroline Kennedy? |
Anonymous
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Maybe Boston has changed now and has become "gentrified" or "yupplified" like everywhere else -- but when I grew up there it was real city -- it had distinctive, ethnic neighborhoods, and a bit of "grit" to it (exemplified by the accent), and rowdy, diehard sports fans. At the same time, Boston is a city with plenty of arts and culture and with all the universities a certain "intellectual" feel to it. I feel like it had the best of both worlds. The kids I grew up with were as likely to have their Dad be a professor as a policeman.
DC, probably due to the transplant nature of the city, is inherently lacking some kind of "character" -- I've been here for a long time and yet I cannot define the place. I do not know or understand what makes a person a Washingtonian in the way I know this about Bostonians. When I go back to Boston and hear the accents and see the Red Sox garb, I know I am home. I don't know what would make me feel similarly about DC had I grown up here. This feeling is what I most miss about Boston. |
Anonymous
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pp, you hit the nail on the head about boston. unfortunately, it is really gentrified now. it's a mini new york. it has lost a lot of it's local flavor. sometimes people will ask me what boston was like when i was young and i will often say "it was grey." and i don't mean that in a bad sense. but yeah, the buildings were grey, the sky was often grey, the sidewalks were a distinct color of light grey that i've not seen in any other city. boston was grey.
now it's snazzy... |
Anonymous
The snow was gray after the snowplows came through and you had to shovel your parking spot to put your green webbed lawn chair in its place. . . 
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Anonymous
| I miss being close to the ocean, Kelly's Roast Beef, and the word "wicked." |
Anonymous
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It's wicked hard to be so far from salt water, the sights and sounds, and Kelly's! One of the first places I go when we go back is the Christmas Tree Shop! LOL! |
Anonymous
Hmm...this is interesting. I'm from the south and we see "nosy" as being friendly. I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but the stereotypes I grew up with are that the "yankees" from up north are colder and not as friendly. I went to school up north and have lived abroad as well as some major cities before settling in DC, so I don't really buy the stereotypes at this point in my life, but it's funny to read this and think about it that context. I wonder if people from the south would think they were being friendly when you think they are nosy. Not that DC is all that southern. |
Anonymous
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D.C. is pretty deep south to Bostonians. Isn't this the BOSTON thread? Hmmmm..... |
Anonymous
Well, it is a southern town. As JFK said, Washington DC is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm." |
Anonymous
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Isn't this a thread about Boston? |
Anonymous
| Yes it is. On a DC urban moms website. Perhaps you should find the Boston moms website if you don't want anyone from DC posting. |