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Los Angeles is NOT America, Boston is NOT America and neither is Kansas
Well friends, I have been searching for new places to set my roots. I will always love Boston. What I love most about this city is the value it places on sports and higher education. I can think of no two things that are more important to someone's well being and/or future. With that said, I also value it for it's GREAT spirit in regards to the Boston Marathon every year, the fourth of July and it's ability to preserve and keep its history alive. And if I didn't live in the area, I would want to, if only for those reasons mentioned above. Driving by Harvard University on a cold January night, when it's 10 degrees below zero and there's snow and black ice all around.....yet, unless you've done it recently, I can tell you that it's still beautiful regardless of the weather. The history of Thoreau, Revolutionary War, and the Puritans....there's no better place to appreciate that than here......the beauty of a warm fall night in the heart/spirit of Boston when the Red Sox are playing their first home game....or the Boston Celtics just made history in the dead of winter...... Yes, we have our cold seasons, yes, we have snow...but the times when all there is..is white snow covering all the trees and all is white....well, the saying "a white Christmas" is right on target should you live in the area....and it's beautiful.
Boston is not half as busy as New York. It's more of a community. And as for the people? Well, I have met no one in my 29 years of being here that I would not worth knowing. The culture really is diverse. And the Italian food in the North End cannot be found in Los Angeles...unless they have a Mike's Pastry I don't know about.....:)
But with every city, it has it's advantages and disadvantages and after doing a GREAT deal of research for both myself and JD as to where we want to live......I am still intereseted in California and NYC......because I think that in one's lifetime it is important to live ON BOTH sides of the United States. If I had enough money, perhaps I would set roots down in London......that would have to be my favorite place, for some of the same reasons Boston is....
NYC is supposedly the city that never sleeps, LA is the entertainment capital of the world where my friend who works in the reality buisness claims that there are too many "hollow like a bunny" people living there......so why he lives there is beyond me......Boston is known for it's sports, and so on......and after researching everyone's opinions on what state was best to live in or what city, none of it mattered, because it really is all a personal perspective and experience. But I would never "settle" in one particular city without having lived elsewhere. And so if any of you have any opinions on where you live and why you live there, I'd love to hear them.
But please, let's not turn this into a negative bash of cities and states. Because for all the positives of one city, we all know, there are just as many negatives....so I suppose the phrase "Whatever makes you happy" really does apply here.........
Boston is not half as busy as New York. It's more of a community. And as for the people? Well, I have met no one in my 29 years of being here that I would not worth knowing. The culture really is diverse. And the Italian food in the North End cannot be found in Los Angeles...unless they have a Mike's Pastry I don't know about.....:)
But with every city, it has it's advantages and disadvantages and after doing a GREAT deal of research for both myself and JD as to where we want to live......I am still intereseted in California and NYC......because I think that in one's lifetime it is important to live ON BOTH sides of the United States. If I had enough money, perhaps I would set roots down in London......that would have to be my favorite place, for some of the same reasons Boston is....
NYC is supposedly the city that never sleeps, LA is the entertainment capital of the world where my friend who works in the reality buisness claims that there are too many "hollow like a bunny" people living there......so why he lives there is beyond me......Boston is known for it's sports, and so on......and after researching everyone's opinions on what state was best to live in or what city, none of it mattered, because it really is all a personal perspective and experience. But I would never "settle" in one particular city without having lived elsewhere. And so if any of you have any opinions on where you live and why you live there, I'd love to hear them.
But please, let's not turn this into a negative bash of cities and states. Because for all the positives of one city, we all know, there are just as many negatives....so I suppose the phrase "Whatever makes you happy" really does apply here.........
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