Reviews & Comments
Boston, MA
re: Boston is worst city in USA - 5/11/2007 -
2/20/2008I love Boston despite all of the negatives. Unfortunately everything John said is true though! Once you cut through the gruff of exterior, some of the locals are so awesome that you'll be hooked anyway.
Boston, MA
re: Most AWESOME city in America!! - 11/16/2007 -
2/20/2008That's a little off. Boston is for people who earn a lot of money, have inherited a lot of money, or people who are on welfare. There are actually tons of "welfare types" in Boston. That's who its built for. The rich and the poor. There is not a good standard of living to be had for grocery clerks, and people much higher on the ladder than that. There is no good quality of life to be had for the working class, and up through the middle class until you hit very comfortable upper-middle class. These people work hard every day, and come home to the same standard of living as those "welfare types" that Mac apparently isn't aware of. So they get mad and leave, exacerbating the lack of a true middle class in the area.
Allentown, PA
OK Jobs, Boredom, High Cost of Living, Douches fro -
7/7/2006The general comments about the Allentown area are wrong in one way, even the stats on this site show that. The steel bust was some time ago. There are jobs here. Ask someone from Pittsburgh if there are jobs here in Allentown's orbit. This is a booming area, particularly for warehousing but lots more. The wages aren't astronomical but we're making the same as we were in New England. It's expensive and has high taxes, but consistently, its not as bad as its neighbors NJ and NY and there's more room to build. All of NY and NJ are moving here because their states make it even harder to live, but this is still relatively expensive. And boring. May I say that a Boston dork is much better than a Lehigh Valley "cool guy"? I'm from here and I lived in Boston for 7 years (hence use of term "douches") and Providence for 3. Those places are impossibly expensive, but they are cool, there are things to do and the city feels alive. This is a wasteland of Olive Gardens and traffic. My husband and I are moving, its just a question of when. We thought we would buy here, and you can, you just have to commute a long way to get a decent place. Now I'm not so sure we'll put any roots down. We live here free with family which is how to do it. If your parent's don't live here, move somewhere else.