Excuse me there tourist, you must not be familiar with the port city of Boston. Nobody here says Beantown. Please enjoy this documentary about our diverse aquatic life.

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And make sure someone says "Beantown" which is something everyone in Boston says.

Southie started changing when the ‘racist hellhole’ reputation grew stale. Because for most people the past is unknown.

The clipper ship tours of Boston Harbor are great! So cool when hoist the sails and turn off the engine. Always a hit with visitors

I think this is a good tour. They do it year round but the groups get too large in the fall. I like it in the winter.

Once upon a time that was the Green Line A branch, which ran to the intersection of Galen St and Nonantum in Watertown. The 57 bus more or less follows the same route.

>You're using 1990, a huge gang war year, as a bellwether...We’ve had an average of 3 shootings a week so far in 2023.

And you're using a 3-4 week data set as a bellwether which is even less relevant when it comes to statistical analysis of overall homicide rates.

Plus there's the fact that you're repeatedly pitching some sort of fantasized connection between supposedly "unused" bike lane construction and homicides. Then you made it clear that you're completely daft when it comes to someone sarcastically taking the piss out of you (I even put the "/s" in the previous reply to try to help you out there).

I will say that if you went to Boston Public Schools we can at least use your stance on shootings & bike lanes as a prime example of educational failure here. I'll take that as a consolation.

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I always too visitors there. Why pay admission to the observatory when you can have a martini at the bar?

>“Helicopter parents!” >“Be accountable for your kids!” >“Let kids be kids!”

…who are you quoting?

Are they in the room with us right now?

>Wouldn’t it just be easier if children couldn’t get guns?

Your idea of Utopia is one where Boston youth:

• Stab three other kids after school in a park.

• Attack other teens unprovoked and smash bus windows with a brick.

Or my maybe simply

• Harass, Rob, and Beat a Man on the Train

(That’s just in the last ten days.)

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a stay at home parent. And if we need more after school activities, jobs, funding, etc then that’s something we can address.

But kids already can’t get guns.

Maybe we figure out a way to stop them from seeking them.

Just take a cab. Easier than Uber, slightly more expensive.

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+1 Mapparium! I enjoyed bringing out of town people here when I lived nearby

Drool

Zocdoc

Why don’t you just cut out the middle man and give your social security check directly to the Mafia?

Use those plastic window sheet kits. The first order solution to this problem is to stop the draft.

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Unfortunately, I’ve already waited a few days. It’s past the window now.

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Obviously you would transfer at blue hill Ave! 😉

But that part is really interesting as well. Disturbing but interesting nonetheless.

If we’re really swinging for the fences, then I would include some bored commuter rail tunnels out to Logan so that the Newbury/Rockport line can have an Airport stop. And while we’re at it, may as well add each terminal onto the Blue Line.

We have to agree to disagree. When we have a problem as big as our housing issue, no solution should be off the table because of "feels". Your solution still requires the state to get involved so we might as well try an all of the above approach and reevaluate whats working, and whats not, over a few year period or something like that. Also you choose to ignore all the possible issues with your private land owner solution. For instance I support higher, denser, and more affordable housing. However, if its not near public transit and its all high end luxury condos being brought up as foreign investments, its basically useless.

Ahh the Danvers t station makes me smile