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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I like cities. As I travel around the country and the world, I have found cities to be rich and interesting. For the most part, I have found their inhabitants to be welcoming and helpful. This surprised me since most of my early city experience was with Boston. I have never liked Boston. Boston is expensive and difficult to visit and its inhabitants are amongst the most unfriendly people I have encountered.
My feelings for Boston can be summed up in an experience I had in my youth. I was commuting into the city to take a class on Saturdays. This was before GPS's hit the market, so I had carefully mapped out my route to the school.
One weekend Clinton was in the city for a speaking engagement. The road I usually took was blocked with a sign that simply said 'closed' and there were a couple police cars parked with two police officers having coffee. There was room for me to pull over, so I pulled in to ask for help getting to my destination. One of the police officers looked at my like I asked for a kidney, "What do I look like? A [expletive] tour guide? Get your [expletive] car out of here before I have it towed." Then he turned away from me and continued talking to the other officer.
I vote New England Patriots. As much as I like Fenway Park, I'd love to see a Camden Yards type of park north of Boston.
I am not an insecure pats fan and I really don't care too much one way or another, but I don't agree with this statement. Unlike the Celtics, Red Sox and Bruins, they dont' play in Boston. The city rejected them when they tried to move to the South Boston Waterfront.the patriots are a boston team and always will be no matter what there called. if that makes you a insecure pats fan im sorry deal with it.
If there was no Boston, there would be no Patriots. What - people in the rest of NE don't root for the C's, B's, and Sox just because they don't have NE in their name???
It really is the Boston Patriots - whether Boston is in the name or not....
if we could roll the clock back, if we could undo all the politics around the Boston stadium, if we could forget that they went to four SB's as the "New England Patriots," and if we could forget that people from Bangor to Providence have identified with them under the regional name, then, yes, I'd prefer that they were called the Boston Patriots and had never changed the name in the first place. it's silly that this is a "New England" team while the Jests and Giants play in New Jersey and carry the name New York, but "it is what it is."
I agree with all your comments. I've never been in a more unfriendly city or in a more racist one than when I have been in Boston.
I also like cities, although I prefer to live 30 minutes away. I now live 30 minutes from Savannah. I liked living near San Francisco and Minneapolis/St Paul. And I've liked visiting lots of cities, especially New Orleans and Vegas.
Fortunate for you to have found a state without racism.
All states have racism. And yes, the rural South is pretty bad. But for cities, Boston has few competitors.
i prefere New England Patriots 'sound'
ps = this night i will be in fron of tv for this game (it will start at 01,00 a.m. here...)
Excellent news pat.
Looks like you will finally get your throwbacks.
Are you having people over to watch with you?
I'm torn... I like how the name sounds. But I'm a fan of the New England Patriots because I was born in New England, not in Mass. I was born in Groton CT., so I like the all encompassing name...