Re: life in Boston?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Andras Radics <http://www.zip1.ziplink.net/~radics>
 > Date: Tue  Jul  8, 11:53am
 >
 > Hi!
 > 
 > Thanks for Dihuyen's address!

Sure.

 > Do you still keep in touch with her?

Yes, occassionally.

 > >  > Yes, we live in Boston.  Cool that you're moving back!  We like it out
 > >  > here quite a bit; the people and pace of life is very different.
 > >
 > > Different than the Bay Area?  I did grow up in Massachusetts/New Hampshire,
 > > but haven't lived there in many (almost 18) years.  I think Boston would be
 > > OK because it is civilized; it's not like Des Moines, Iowa or anything like
 > > that.
 > 
 > Boston is a neat city, lots to see and do.  Most high-tech is on the
 > outskirts of the city, though, and most high-tech workers live beyond
 > that, and commute in.  But yes, civilization is available for the times
 > you need it :-)  There are not as many startups as in Silicon Valley
 > (companies tend to be bigger), and there is perhaps less job-hopping,
 > and the Boston Globe help wanted section is atrocious (not alphabetized,
 > not even sorted by job category).

Yeah, the Globe help wanted are a mess, huh?

 > We live in the boonies (rural suburbs) of Boston, far from industry or
 > high-tech.  Here it's very different from the Bay Area.  There are still
 > working farms in town, and people keep horses without owning a mansion
 > :-).  In SF the population is much more urban, the mindset is urban, and
 > *Californian* :-) The difference is subtle, but quite noticeable once
 > you get attuned to it.  Much more mellow here, more connected both to
 > family and to the area.  It's weird, but California mostly consists of
 > people that moved there from elsewhere, and that gives a sort of
 > impermanence to the place.  (This is especially the case in San Diego,
 > where 80% of our neighborhood was 30-something yuppies with young kids,
 > and 15% was young kids :-)
 > 
 > Didn't you graduate from Lincoln-Sudbury High?  (You used to own that
 > LSH Unix Hackers jacket :-)  And if you joined Impell in 87 (+/-),
 > you would have left Mass. in 83, 14 years ago.  So where's the other
 > four years from?

That's a good question!  I miscalculated (guess I was ahead of myself).

 > >
 > > How do you commute to work?  Is bicycling a possibility?
 > 
 > I commute 20 miles, so biking is more of an adventure than I'm in shape
 > for :-)  Before we bought our house, I biked in once or twice (12 miles).
 > I would guess that unless one is a die-hard, traffic is too heavy to
 > make it a pleasant experience (even within the city), unless there is
 > a convenient route on residential streets.  One of my co-workers bikes
 > in occasionally, he lives a few miles away and avoids main roads.

Ah, good to know!  Thanks!