While Natty made a great post on why Boston sucks I would like to add a few more (this is not a full list - a full list of why Boston sucks would take months to compile and days to read).
- The Big Dig. Since Boston has the worst traffic problems I’ve ever seen in any city (see next point) some genius decided it would be a good idea to reroute the interstate to go under the city. The project was estimated to cost 2.8 billion dollars. 20 years later, 14.6 billion dollars have been spent - some of it coming from federal funds! You would think with all the nerds they have across the river in Cambridge they would be able to construct this thing without a hitch but leaks have been found all over the tunnel and two deaths have occured from ceiling collapses in 2006. Thanks a lot Boston - now I can’t even drive past you on the Interstate without my life being in danger.
- Impossible to navigate. Boston’s streets were made before automobiles and if you visited today you would think that they haven’t updated them since. Pretty much every road in Boston is a one way street. That would be fine except for the fact none of the roads are straight or run parallel. Look at this street map. Now concider that those streets are one way and their direction are seemingly selected at random. Do they not have “blocks” up there in Mass?
- Red Sox. Look - The Yankees suck and the Red Sox suck. They both are freaking awful and I am sick of hearing about it and your lame rivalry. Boston loses extra points for even pretending its on the same level as New York City in anything.
How could Boston recover?
The only thing cool thing Boston has ever done was the Boston Tea Party. A bunch of Bostonians, Samuel Adams included, Jack Bauered there way onto a boat and pulled £10,000 of tea out of the hull and into the harbor. Even then, they overreacted and Bostonian Benjamin Franklin offered to repay the damages (flip flopper). It was still pretty cool though and the tea flowed on the shore for weeks. Too bad that was back when we were a different country. Its been like 230 years guys - what have you done for me lately? If you could do something cool like that without acting like a bunch of idiots then you could redeem yourself.
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Hey guys
I love your website!
I thought there were 6 contributing writers for hectorhector.com, how come only 2 of you have written more than one post?
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Steve
As a recent transplant to Massachusetts, let me add a few things.
- Want to do construction? Hire this off duty cop. What does the cop do? Slows down construction by standing around BSing with the workers. Infuriating.
- No happy hours. Hell, no decent bars. Liberty? Not if the puritans don’t like it.
- The roads would be slightly more navigable if there were … I don’t know … street signs! (If you don’t know where you are, maybe you shouldn’t be here.)
- Beautiful, huge reservoirs … that you can’t swim, boat, or walk too close too.
- The T. Just because it’s the oldest subway system, doesn’t mean it has to be the crappiest.
I could go on, but I think the case has been made.
dude u forgot two of the most important things
1. fucked up weather.
2. fucked up people who look as if they were dragged from their graves to work today. fucking snobs.
go colts, go yankees, beat the crap out of these crackpots , idiots
i also figured why MIT and harvard reached their academic brilliance, there fucking isnt anything for these people to do.
I’ve been stuck in the hell known as Boston for seven years now…thankfully, the time for escape is near. My observations about this pile of crap city? Let’s start with the Mayor, or shall I call him Mushmouth. Instead of enforcing rules this guy cuts ribbons, hands out awards for pretty gardens and talks about the Red Sohx. How about making sure the red lights are timed properly or instituting alternate side of the street parking so people can actually DRIVE their cars down a clear street after 4 inches of snow. Moron. But hey, Dave Jones over in JP sure has a pretty garden!
Let’s talk about the uniform for male and female Massholeans that consists of a Patriots jersey (size XL) and a Red Sox hat…The XL fits the big fat gut, again male or female, and there always seems to be super
skinny pair of legs attached. What’s with the ginormously proportioned upper bodies? It isn’t muscle!
Consistent among all Bostonians is the major bug they have up their ass about New York. Get over it. There’s no comparison. You are a tiny, dirty little city with a bunch of nasty, rude people either completely lacking in any social graces or, in the alternative, you have innacurately deemed yourselves as “Blue Bloods”…get over yourselves. When I moved here, someone actually scoffed at me for not knowing who a “Saltonstall” is…who the fuck cares?! Do they know who I am? Stick it Boston and while you’re at it, learn to drive, speak properly, get over your “little man” complex with NY, wash your nasty Sox hats and come to terms with the fact that there are many outstanding universities operating in the United States.
ok guys.. honestly, You’re all hicks with nothing better to do then talk trash about one of the greatest cities in the world. Boston has more culture and history then every other state combine. You can’t even say go colts, they suck, the yankees suck.. the knicks suck.. the islanders and rangers suck. so hop off. Everyone in the country hates boston teams because they are good, and have all had success. If you were smart you wouldnt try driving in boston, you’d walk, like normal people.
And hey, steve cleveland, you city has one thing, the rock and roll hall of fame, so how do you have any right saying that boston isnt a good city? idiot. And what kind of comment is the weather sucks? what about seattle? do you hate seattle cus it rains all the time? or Las vegas because its really hot and dry? thats the most retarted thing i’ve ever heard. clown.
New york sucks, its by far more dirty then boston.
You guys need some lifes, Boston is the only place on earth to be.
OMG!
I love this rant!
because I, too, hate this horrible citysore on a bog, “Bahstan”…
Been here since 98, and still CAN NOT LOVE boston.
Cruelly deformed roads.
Crueler drivers.
Cold winters that last 6 months.
Colder hearts of the people, that last forever.
Small, insular attitude to the remainder of Earth.
Awful blueblood attitude, especially the ones with cash.
No acceptance of ‘outsiders’ of any kind.
Sorry, your clean, crime free city has a lot of segregated crime, dirt, corruption, and denial.
Still, Fenway is extremely cool…
Yes, Virginia, I too taught at Harvard for 2 years (like so many others) and to this day it so cracks me up to remember being told by my chief “Well phil, you were good enough to teach here, but not train here.”
Ha ha. Fuck you (but i still love the ol’ guy).
Listen folks:
If a snowstorm of 12 inches can
stop traffic for 7 hours in a 20 mile radius, what do you think will happen if a hurricane hits?
Peace, love, and understanding???
Point made. All the above about Boston is right on.
It remains a small, cruel, overpriced city.
well said, dr phil.
The reason I hate Boston the most is that they think they are so “all that” that they do not have to advertise or sell themselves as a tourist destination the way other cities have to. Now some of those “other cities” are having all sorts of success selling themselves as Great tourist destinations, while dear old Boston is lagging behind now. That’s what they get for being so cocky and overconfident. If Boston were so smart, they would know that you must constantly sell your self as a great tourist destination to succeed with it. Maybe this will humble the big shots.
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i take it many of you are not from New England…? possibly somewhere west of the mississippi or south of the mason-dixon?
I agree that this place sucks. The people here are so shitty. The only human, friendly, compassionate people I’ve met here are from somewhere else. I’m stuck for now, but planning an escape by Fall ‘09.
Boston just blows…….. Period…….and it was voted the most racist city in America ……. Figures.
Wow u guys r a bunch of fukin haters!! How da fuk can u say every1 here in boston r rude?! U probably dnt even noe nobody here so shut da phuk nd get a life!! And wtf? Da weather suks? Hahaha wtf do u think dat is gonna be sunny every fukin daii? Ummmz nopes! Us bostonians r da shiit! Yall juss a bunch of phukin hataz dat aint got a life! Like come on now WE DA CiTY OF CHAMPz!!!! HAHAHA how u like dem applez?! PHUK ALL YALL HATAz!!!! KEEP ON HATiN CUz DAT MAKEz US EVEN MORE SPECiAL! THANK U!!
BOSTON iS DA SHiT!!!! HATE ON iT BiTCHEEEEEEEEEz!!
LOL ok u bragging little ignorant fuck, thats exaclty why allot of people talk shit about that shitehole u call home. You guys think ur tha shit or something.LOL .
so please quite embarassing yourselves…..
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yawll fagget need to get life.
our sport team fucking rock unlike yawl fake ass city eveone of our sport teams one championship recintly
also john stfu llearn how to fucking spell quit then holla at me
BOSTON IS THE SHIT BITCHEzz CHOKE ON IT
One word: Massholes.
Boston people are the nastiest, rudest people I have met in a while and have horrible accents to go with it. I go to school there (longing to transfer) and the only nice people are the ones that are locals and also hate Boston. Just look at Kevin, typical shitty Bostonian. You Bahstonian need to get a life instead of sports and worrying about the Red Sux and learn how to drive. The weather is awful in the fall and winter and the city is a shithole and on top of that it is so expensive to live. Avoid at all costs
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boston bites. the end.
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