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Yeah, Boston wants you to be going home at 12AM, when the last trains are leaving their stations, and they force bars/clubs/restaurants/etc to be closed by 2AM,

Yeah, Boston wants you to be going home at 12AM, when the last trains are leaving their stations, and they force bars/clubs/restaurants/etc to be closed by 2AM, period. It makes me miss the random industrial city in another country I lived in for my MSc. Admittedly, that's one of my favorite cities period, but it had night-owl bus lines, including BRT. You could go out at 20:30, stay out until 04:30, and get home at 5:45.

fnord123 6y ago
> It makes me miss the random industrial city in another country I lived in for my MSc. Why not just say Haifa?
- eli_gottlieb 6y ago
  Because most people don't know where that is, and aren't stalking my LinkedIn to see where I got the MSc.
  - flyinglizard 6y ago
    Hard to call that "stalking" when you made it so blatantly out there for people to visit.
    - eli_gottlieb 6y ago
      This is a tech-industry news site. Half of the people here are on real names and/or provide links for networking. Yeah, I make my professional self "out there" for people to get in touch with on here.
      - flyinglizard 6y ago
        It is the use of the derogatory term “stalking” towards a person who’ve visited the links you put there yourself that I find peculiar, rather than the links.
        eli_gottlieb 6y ago
        Ah, I think that might just be an age or social-clique thing. At least among my friends, we've generalized "stalking" to just generally include seeking out someone's real-life identity via their online breadcrumbs, even when the "breadcrumbs" are signposts put down on purpose.
Thriptic 6y ago
Preach. Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people. They hyper regulate all activities and services that young people want to participate in or use as you point out, do nothing to reign in housing prices, and then are shocked when they have a hard time retaining talented people after they get their degrees. It's absurd.
- eli_gottlieb 6y ago
  >and then are shocked when they have a hard time retaining talented people after they get their degrees. I mean, come on. Are they shocked? Or is this how the townies want it? My impression is that quite a lot of the "natives" who think of themselves as "True Bostonians(TM)" (ie: not just those of us who've lived here for years, married someone raised here, and own property here) want this place to be the world's most populous (but rather restrictive) college town. Why would they want more people around to ruin their city by walking around doing things? Come, spend your money like a tourist, fuel their businesses, get your degree if you're one of those workaholic nerds, and get the fuck back out. You can come back eventually if you manage to make the tenure track!
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  >Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people. Massachusetts is overtly hostile to anyone who does not step in line the way a good well behaved cog in the machine should. Making it hard for people to stay out late and get drunk is just a specific instance of that. When you picture the state as being run by a committee of stodgy puritanical authoritarians who live in Lincoln and Lexington it all makes sense.

fnord123 6y ago

> It makes me miss the random industrial city in another country I lived in for my MSc. Why not just say Haifa?

eli_gottlieb 6y ago
Because most people don't know where that is, and aren't stalking my LinkedIn to see where I got the MSc.
- flyinglizard 6y ago
  Hard to call that "stalking" when you made it so blatantly out there for people to visit.
  - eli_gottlieb 6y ago
    This is a tech-industry news site. Half of the people here are on real names and/or provide links for networking. Yeah, I make my professional self "out there" for people to get in touch with on here.
    - flyinglizard 6y ago
      It is the use of the derogatory term “stalking” towards a person who’ve visited the links you put there yourself that I find peculiar, rather than the links.
      - eli_gottlieb 6y ago
        Ah, I think that might just be an age or social-clique thing. At least among my friends, we've generalized "stalking" to just generally include seeking out someone's real-life identity via their online breadcrumbs, even when the "breadcrumbs" are signposts put down on purpose.

Thriptic 6y ago

Preach. Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people. They hyper regulate all activities and services that young people want to participate in or use as you point out, do nothing to reign in housing prices, and then are shocked when they have a hard time retaining talented people after they get their degrees. It's absurd.

eli_gottlieb 6y ago
>and then are shocked when they have a hard time retaining talented people after they get their degrees. I mean, come on. Are they shocked? Or is this how the townies want it? My impression is that quite a lot of the "natives" who think of themselves as "True Bostonians(TM)" (ie: not just those of us who've lived here for years, married someone raised here, and own property here) want this place to be the world's most populous (but rather restrictive) college town. Why would they want more people around to ruin their city by walking around doing things? Come, spend your money like a tourist, fuel their businesses, get your degree if you're one of those workaholic nerds, and get the fuck back out. You can come back eventually if you manage to make the tenure track!
throwaway0a5e 6y ago
>Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people. Massachusetts is overtly hostile to anyone who does not step in line the way a good well behaved cog in the machine should. Making it hard for people to stay out late and get drunk is just a specific instance of that. When you picture the state as being run by a committee of stodgy puritanical authoritarians who live in Lincoln and Lexington it all makes sense.