DC vs Boston, which is better?

[Anonymous]

BOSTON, BOSTON, BOSTON!

The people, civility, food, beaches, the city government isn't a bunch of fools or criminals, and most importantly the MEDICAL CARE. Unlike DC, you have to practice medicine competently. DC area medical institution are disgraceful. I would not be dying had I stayed in Boston. Less ignorance in every industry. I disagree with pp that DC is more educated.

You can't go wrong with Boston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can ride the bus for more than 10 minutes in Boston without seeing a screaming match or hearing the N word ten times. Try to do that in DC

Boston is just an absolutely insane city. DC feels less safe, probably because the random violence here disrupts the calm. Boston is not calm, ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m black and I experienced so much easier racism when I lived in Boston.

In DC, I’ve experienced none.

I'm white and had the exact opposite experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC. Boston is racist as hell.

I'm a Boston native who has lived in DC for 30 years. I have tons of family in New England, visit frequently, and look forward to retiring there. But I'm very glad I raised my (white) kids here. Yes, Bostonians/New Englanders can be very racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just cannot stand the damn mosquitoes anymore in the DMV during the summers. You cannot even enjoy the summers in the DMV because it is overrun now with Asian tiger mosquitoes. It is awful.

I totally agree. We can't use our backyard at all from June until October. I gave up on 20 years of vegetable gardening last summer. Every time I went out to weed I got eaten alive. I'll put in spring crops (peas, lettuce, etc), but no summer garden for me until we move to a different climate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BOSTON, BOSTON, BOSTON!

The people, civility, food, beaches, the city government isn't a bunch of fools or criminals, and most importantly the MEDICAL CARE. Unlike DC, you have to practice medicine competently. DC area medical institution are disgraceful. I would not be dying had I stayed in Boston. Less ignorance in every industry. I disagree with pp that DC is more educated.

You can't go wrong with Boston.

+can't believe I forgot Boston is 100× cleaner , more beautiful, and safer.

[Anonymous]

DC; but i'm not white (i'm brown skinned). Boston is more openly racist than any southern city i've been to; pretty much only equal to parts of eastern europe.

I guess it is ok if you are white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC. Boston is racist as hell.

I'm a Boston native who has lived in DC for 30 years. I have tons of family in New England, visit frequently, and look forward to retiring there. But I'm very glad I raised my (white) kids here. Yes, Bostonians/New Englanders can be very racist.

Interesting. I could be your twin - except my kids hightailed it up there for college and have never looked back. They appreciate the "realness" (their word) of the blue-collar towns they now live in there.

[Anonymous]

I’m originally a New Yorker and prefer DC by far, for the reasons already listed.

[Anonymous]

Another Boston native who has lived in DC over 20 years now. Not only is Boston a racist city, the racism is especially insidious because it’s cloaked by an artificial veneer of liberalism or progressivism. Massachusetts uses 400 year-old colonial boundaries to pen impoverished minority communities into specific cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

Boston certainly has its share of history, cultural institutions, and an “educated” (i.e. mostly white, wealthy, and privileged) population. Here’s the funny thing: Most other large cities in the country have the same. Boston also has this annoying arrogance that suggests and dupes others into believing its history and cultural institutions are somehow superior to everything else. They’re not.

Boston is insanely overpriced. Most of its housing is old and growing more decrepit. Its highway infrastructure is horribly obsolete. Its transit infrastructure is falling apart and only getting worse. Many of its suburbs are unremarkable and overly car-centric. And the winters are brutal.

DC is far from perfect but I prefer it to Boston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another Boston native who has lived in DC over 20 years now. Not only is Boston a racist city, the racism is especially insidious because it’s cloaked by an artificial veneer of liberalism or progressivism. Massachusetts uses 400 year-old colonial boundaries to pen impoverished minority communities into specific cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

Boston certainly has its share of history, cultural institutions, and an “educated” (i.e. mostly white, wealthy, and privileged) population. Here’s the funny thing: Most other large cities in the country have the same. Boston also has this annoying arrogance that suggests and dupes others into believing its history and cultural institutions are somehow superior to everything else. They’re not.

Boston is insanely overpriced. Most of its housing is old and growing more decrepit. Its highway infrastructure is horribly obsolete. Its transit infrastructure is falling apart and only getting worse. Many of its suburbs are unremarkable and overly car-centric. And the winters are brutal.

DC is far from perfect but I prefer it to Boston.

This is definitely true. Their racism is covered up and disguised as progressive, however, be a poc and say that you like something outside of their progressive world view and they will shun you to the ends of the planet.

[Anonymous]

Stupid thread.
If you like Boston better, MOVE. If you like DC better, stay here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stupid thread.
If you like Boston better, MOVE. If you like DC better, stay here.

+1

OP is just stirring the pot. Not their first troll post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can ride the bus for more than 10 minutes in Boston without seeing a screaming match or hearing the N word ten times. Try to do that in DC

Conversely, anyone who complains about Metro has clearly never experienced the T.

[Anonymous]

I lived in Boston before DC. It felt provincial (I'm from chicago) and insular. And their sports fans are annoying AF.