[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 i

[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.