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Originally Posted by Crawford
Boston is a large metro with active nightlife, as there are tons of educated and/or moneyed young/single people. No, it isn't NY or Miami, but so what? It's a desirable place for younger folks, and a good place to raise a family. High incomes, high quality of life.
I lived in Boston area for a few years in my 20's, in grad school. Never felt it lacked nightlife or activities for younger folks.
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I specifically said I value that. I don't care about big suburban houses or raising a family. High income, you can have everywhere. I don't need a place with 1 million high income jobs. Just 1, mine, suffices.
And there is nightlife
and nightlife. I'm certainly not into very conventional nightclubs/bars full of straight guys behaving badly. Very fancy and pretentious stuff neither. That's dated and tacky.
So my question is: does Boston have those kind of places you find in London, Berlin, Barcelona or São Paulo? I guessed it doesn't, but you can correct me.
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Originally Posted by JManc
Nightlife in Boston is fine, it's just not New York or LA which are massive tourist hubs plus global centers of the entertainment industry which attract the partying types. Who over the age of 30 or so wants to move to an area solely because that's where Madonna would have gone when she was 20?
To me, SF is more like Boston than LA or NY as far as nightlife.
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I'm over 30 and I definitely want to live in a big, creative, energetic, non-conformist place, otherwise I'd be bored. Even inside one city you have those differences: I certainly prefer to live Downtown than on the sleepy, very wealthy, Jewish quarter that's just 1km away.
About San Francisco, maybe they get too rich, and as such, conventional. Maybe a 1960's-1980's San Francisco would be more interesting in this regard, I don't know.
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
A city as big as Boston definitely has night clubs. Look up the story about Aaron Hernandez, who frequented night clubs in Boston. I would be surprised if any U.S. metro of +2 million doesn't have at least several night clubs.
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I'm pretty sure they have nightclubs, but what type? The edgy ones I can find in places like São Paulo, Berlin or London or the conventional ones that I find in every single mid-sized city?