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Here is my list: * Its ridiculously ugly. * The layout seems designed to amplify the wind and somehow manages to do it in all directions. * Building restrictio

Here is my list: * Its ridiculously ugly. * The layout seems designed to amplify the wind and somehow manages to do it in all directions. * Building restrictions that prevent affordable housing from being built. * They're happy to hike prices on parking to reduce cars, but the Red Line is unreliable which forces people to use cars. * Central * They managed to make bike lanes that are more dangerous than roads * Northbound Longfellow Bridge * Try turning on to Technology Square from Broadway * Mass Ave in general

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
All that plus the ivory tower politics the people of the wealthy parts of the Boston ares push at the state (I have no problem with them sinking their own ship) is why I don't like it. The greater Boston area in general thinks the world revolves around it and they're a) wrong and b) entitled jerks for thinking that in the first place.
biswaroop 7y ago
[edit: just wanted to say these are my initial opinionated responses to your points. Not stating these as facts necessarily] * Eh. Running around the Charles in the fall is glorious. Mt Auburn cemetery is awesome. There's a crazy diversity of architecture from Mass Hall in Harvard Yard to the Stata Center. * It's a windy city. The average wind speed of the Boston area is higher than Chicago. * Affordable housing is a serious issue in a lot of cities, especially ones with a rapidly growing population of high-salary tech jobs. * As much as people hate the Red line, it's old, and it works. Yes it's delayed often, but at rush hour it's packed with people who don't want to use cars. * Central is central. There's tons of ok restaurants, and it's lively enough for me. As 'downtowns' go, it's not intolerably dirty or worse, dead. As public art goes, it's not Lisbon, but it's quite fun. * They're clearly trying to improve the bike lanes. It's gotten a lot better over the 6 years I've been here. * More specific road issues: yes, it's in a state of change, and there are a bunch of old streets. I'll always have complaints about cities. Considering it started as the oldest grid-planned town in the US, it's not all that bad.
screye 7y ago
These do not seem like very legitimate complaints. 1. The city is generally considered nice looking. What about it do you find ugly. It has a very nice 19th century feel to it. 2. Idk about the wind. The city is windy, but so is all of Boston. Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with city planning. 3. It is a step in the right direction. The busses and red line (despite the admittedly bad reliability) are more frequent and numerous than most cities in the US. 4. I have biked in Boston, NY and Cambridge. Cambridge was the safest of the bunch. It is rated as one of the best biking cities in the US. NY was easy, because everyone was going slow, but was full of the not nice type of surprises. Boston in the other hand is a proper death trap. The housing restrictions are a pain. I will give you that. Also, if those are your main complaints about a city. Then I would have guessed that you love it, not hate it.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago

All that plus the ivory tower politics the people of the wealthy parts of the Boston ares push at the state (I have no problem with them sinking their own ship) is why I don't like it. The greater Boston area in general thinks the world revolves around it and they're a) wrong and b) entitled jerks for thinking that in the first place.

biswaroop 7y ago

[edit: just wanted to say these are my initial opinionated responses to your points. Not stating these as facts necessarily] * Eh. Running around the Charles in the fall is glorious. Mt Auburn cemetery is awesome. There's a crazy diversity of architecture from Mass Hall in Harvard Yard to the Stata Center. * It's a windy city. The average wind speed of the Boston area is higher than Chicago. * Affordable housing is a serious issue in a lot of cities, especially ones with a rapidly growing population of high-salary tech jobs. * As much as people hate the Red line, it's old, and it works. Yes it's delayed often, but at rush hour it's packed with people who don't want to use cars. * Central is central. There's tons of ok restaurants, and it's lively enough for me. As 'downtowns' go, it's not intolerably dirty or worse, dead. As public art goes, it's not Lisbon, but it's quite fun. * They're clearly trying to improve the bike lanes. It's gotten a lot better over the 6 years I've been here. * More specific road issues: yes, it's in a state of change, and there are a bunch of old streets. I'll always have complaints about cities. Considering it started as the oldest grid-planned town in the US, it's not all that bad.

screye 7y ago

These do not seem like very legitimate complaints. 1. The city is generally considered nice looking. What about it do you find ugly. It has a very nice 19th century feel to it. 2. Idk about the wind. The city is windy, but so is all of Boston. Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with city planning. 3. It is a step in the right direction. The busses and red line (despite the admittedly bad reliability) are more frequent and numerous than most cities in the US. 4. I have biked in Boston, NY and Cambridge. Cambridge was the safest of the bunch. It is rated as one of the best biking cities in the US. NY was easy, because everyone was going slow, but was full of the not nice type of surprises. Boston in the other hand is a proper death trap. The housing restrictions are a pain. I will give you that. Also, if those are your main complaints about a city. Then I would have guessed that you love it, not hate it.