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What about Boston?

• steveklabnik 12y ago
  I've only been there two or three times and it was fine. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. That was three or four years back, though.
• michaelochurch 12y ago
  Boston is a beautiful town and has a really nice climate (summers 5 degrees colder than New York, possibly the best fall foliage in the world). Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of progressivism in Boston companies. The people I like, and the brainpower in that city is immense. On the other hand, I've interviewed with 4 or 5 Boston companies in my life, known people who work there, and the set of people who've made it into management or founding roles and making decisions seems... stodgy, conservative, prone to create regimented, closed-allocation, uninspiring companies. New England is unbeatable, though, except possibly in comparison to the Pacific Northwest.
  • rdl 12y ago
    I went to school in Boston and would basically hate being in Boston if not directly attached to a university. NY has big positives and big negatives; nowhere else in New England has super strong positives, but a lot of them have less serious negatives. People obviously have vastly different preferences and weightings even for factors where they agree directionally.
    • Serow225 12y ago
      What were the negatives for you?