How would you descirbe Boston?

Answer 1

Beautiful city with a love of history and a baseball team I like better than the Yanks. Of course, I like the plague more than the Yanks.

Answer 2

This is how I would describe Boston:
1. On the road; I would be with the other crazy drivers. So many cars and so many turning point. You could be in one lane and always have to get to the other lane because you need to turn in the other road or highway soon. You would be run into a turnpike or one way street constantly. If you don’t know where you at or where you will go next, you would be easily lost in Boston. Don’t go in to the wrong way because you will get a blue light and ticket as soon as you go in. Do not park your car there on the side of the street, no matter where it is. You will either get ticket or get tow as soon as you get out of your car.
2. Many well known and great Universities.
3. Famous Buildings.
4. When you asked everyone from Massachusetts, “Where are you from?” They would reply, “ Boston.” Even if they were from Woburn or the other town. So, Boston is pretty much the name of the State of Massachusetts. When you hardly hear the name of the state itself.
5. New England
6. Famous and great restaurants.
7. Cold in the winter, so make sure you have a warm jacket and groves.

Answer 3

I have never went to Boston. I would probably hate Boston if I went, since they hate Yankee fans. I also hate their accents too. Brian Leetch will always be one of my favorite hockey players even though he played in Boston. As long as the Bruins don't have a rivalry with my New York Rangers or the Celtics have a rivalry with the New York Knicks, then those Boston teams are alright. From what I understand, they have the reputation for being rude people. They would probably want to start something just because you are a Yankee fan. So, that is what I think of Boston.

Answer 4

Boston is one of the great small cities of the United States, and has some of the most European-influenced urban layout in North America. Historically speaking, it is an important city in the U.S., having been one of the sites of colonial resistance to the throne of England back before we were born as a sovereign nation-state. It's hard not to think of this when you're walking along any of the few routes between Quincy Market and the North End. Also known as the hub, its street layout in the older parts, from a sky view or a viewing of a map, have the likeness of the spokes of a wheel or a spider's web pattern in the style of the old European cities. You see the same style in way lower Manhattan. One time, way back when, the streets were smelly because modern sewerage hadn't been worked out. The stench of poo and pee has since been replaced by the foul odor of burning gasoline. Boston used to get very cold this time of year, but I hear that's not the case this year.

It's an expensive place to live, though. I don't recommend trying to live there unless you have stupid money. It's still kind of a racist city too, if you ask me, and not as culturally hip as New York City (though NYC is not perfect in that arena either). But if you can get past the overpriced real estate and the demographic rigidity in parts, then you can really get down and enjoy yourself at a local watering hole or maybe take a walk on the Esplanade and view the river and the facades of all the nice Brownstones. It's a nicer place to be in the summertime when the B train isn't brimming with college students and the weather is a little easier to take on most days. Fenway Park is, by leaps and bounds, the most nostalgia-inspiring of the Major League ballparks, and, to this day, my favorite place to watch a baseball game. But, like many things in Boston, An afternoon or evening at Fenway costs more money than the average person can really afford, and I'm not sure that I can justify going there this year now that I live far enough away so that I would have to take a plane to get there in reasonable time.

There's good music in Boston too. A lot of good, unknown bands and street musician non-pareils. This may be its best quality, along with the good food in the North End (but also getting too expensive).

All that said, I'd advise any foreigner to visit New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Austin, San Fran, LA, Seattle, or Miami before going to Boston--though I'm beginning to think that all the people in California have been replaced by alien abductor lookalikes who place an inhuman value on not really enjoying anything. Well, with the exception of about seventeen people who have been sworn to secrecy at the threat of some cruel space execution.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

But seriously, Boston is not easily describable without making really bad generalizations. It is, like any other place, many things to many people. To me, it is the place of my birth, and the place of residence of many of my forebears, as well as the place of many good memories. It was the first city I really explored as a child, through trips into Chinatown, the North End, Southie, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Cambridge, Somerville, some of which were done without much more than ten dollars in my pocket, and I had a great time--just talking to my friends and making observations about the scenery. Like any place, it has its merits and faults. I think that its people are very guarded and sometimes can come off as incredibly short and rude--even moreso than New Yorkers (maybe even way moreso). I don't have an explanation for that. It's just what I've seen from experience and from what I've heard from people who don't know anyone who lives there or near there. But it has charm as well. There are certainly people around who make it a better place. There's decent public transportation and a lot of nice scenery. It's a great place to go to college if you can afford it or get a good scholarship. The Custom House Tower is a neat building to look at from many angles. Some parts of the waterfront are great places to be, notably the Esplanade.

But this is a baseball index, so, baseball-wise, you can't go wrong in Boston. If you can't afford or can't get into Fenway, you can go to one of the local bars and get soused while watching the game on t.v with people who are very likely more passionate about the game than a good half of the ticket holders--all for less or even money. Boston baseball fans are very knowledgable about the sport on the whole, and The Red Sox are the focal point of a religious-like following for many New Englanders, and Fenway is in some ways like a medieval cathedral. I consider it to be one of the holiest shrines on earth, right up there with Lourdes, Mecca, Kyoto, Meherabad, Lambeau Field, the Brooklyn Bridge, you name it.

Answer 5

A city that is expecting too much from Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Lower the bar some. There's a huge difference from pitching in Japan than pitching in the majors.

Answer 6

It is all about the Sox, The greatest team in all the land. Nothing better than a Fenway Frank and a cold brew at Fenway Park

Answer 7

The #2 team in the AL East.

Answer 8

Boston is a great town. Great baseball town with a lot of tradition. Sports fans there are very similiar to NY fans. Very knowledgeable and very passionate.

Its just not NY. 'Nuff said.

Answer 9

A very old city with one of the if no the most expensive set of roads that can be found anywhere. It's built mostly on filled in ocean. Old cities come with old problems, old buildings, and old layouts.

Answer 10

Native Bostonians insisted to me that they were on record as being the rudest people in America. When I said I thought NY was on record as the rudest, they proudly claimed that they beat NY. I found Bostonians to be very friendly people even though they claimed I talked funny.