Show no quarter!

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[Poll #1417382]Duke it out in the comments. Try to change each other's minds. Try to make up our minds. This is a public post, so get other people involved. Pull no punches (except at each other's privacy).

Bring it on.

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[catbird.livejournal.com]

Boston was the awesome place to live! My favorite city so far.

[katmerlin.livejournal.com]

Are you folks moving? Or just getting a coast-to-coast death match?

[lorimt]

Boston has literally dozens of colleges! One could get a Master's degree in practically anything. Not only that, it has lots of tech companies, bio companies, and (even more, it seems) biotech companies.

We've also got Mudd folk (iluvsheep, zwilichkl, fabricant, leech all live nearby, there are some others around too) and piles of cool non-Mudd folk (7+ within 2.5 blocks of my house). We have games nights on order of 3 times a week, drawing on what I will estimate is one of the best game collections around. There's good rock climbing, indoors and outdoors - iluvsheep is climbing a couple times a week. There are interesting small towns up and down the coast as well as lots of hiking options (from the very low key to the fairly energetic).

Massachusetts is full of shiny things to do: New England Pirate Faire, Roller Derby, and a Tango Festival are all this weekend, along with dozens of other events. We've got a world class aquarium, several world class museums, the museum of bad art for balance, a large and active kink scene (or so I'm told) and sports (for people who like that sort of thing).

That's all I've got off the top of my head - more as I think of things. :)

[savfan104.livejournal.com]

I clicked a ticky box.

I have no input, having lived in neither of those places.

I'm just jealous 'cuz I want to move to one of those places :)

[avhn.livejournal.com]

Seattle is awesome and there are lots of things to see and do. We have two mountain ranges, lots of lakes, and an ocean, so that all pretty much wins. Decent climbing from what I've heard (although I don't climb - but two kids from my HS climbed competitively.) There's tons of hiking around, which is always fun.

We have a pretty awesome pride celebration every year, plus folklife (which you've seen) and bumbershoot (similar to folklife but bigger/costs money to get in/ bigger named bands... worth going to once, anyway.) Pike place market rocks, as do most of the local farmer's markets. They probably won't be quite as convenient as in SD, but they're not bad. There's the Burke Gilman, which provides some biking access, and the town is generally reasonably bike friendly. Traffic isn't great, but it isn't horrible either, and when it's not rush hour it's generally completely fine.

People are generally pretty friendly in my experience; most people hold doors open and such, which makes a big difference to me.

Downsides: taxes/living expenses are pretty high (I think they are in Boston as well), and we do get a lot of rain in the winter (which I like, but not everyone does.) Usually it doesn't snow like crazy... hopefully it doesn't do that again, so transport isn't too much of an issue in the winter. There is reasonable access to snow in the mountains, though (it's about an hour/hour and a half drive), so it's not too bad if you're craving snow ^^

Also there are awesome people. But you know that.

[gdarklighter.livejournal.com]

Neither! Start a new Mudd enclave!

[wyrmie.livejournal.com]

Boston's cool. Seattle seems cool. I'm more likely to move to the Boston area than the Seattle area. :D

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

San Francisco! :-D

If you did that I could probably be persuaded to move there... hell, I might check the "make room for me in your madhouse" box. :-)

I would have said Seattle of the given options until recently, but several of the people I know in Seattle are now moving to ... San Francisco! So I don't really know a critical mass of people in either of your two proposed locales anymore. :-\

[fabricant.livejournal.com]

Boston has everything lorimt said above, plus tons of really nice areas to walk around in - with good restaurants and small retail, like Harvard Square and Coolidge Corner. It also has solid public transportation options - maybe not as a good as NY or DC, but better than pretty much anything on the West Coast.

Lots of swing dancing in the area - don't remember if either of you were into MOBs back at Mudd. Also, we have sports teams who win occasionally, in case that makes a difference to you.

[notsteven.livejournal.com]

Ann Arbor? Anyone?

*Crickets chirping*

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Obviously since I'm apparently buying a house here instead of moving to the PNW, you should move to Santa Clarita.

Failing that, you should move to the PNW, because otherwise the concentration of awesome people in Boston will be too high. What will happen if Boston gets nuked, I ask you???

[cmouse.livejournal.com]

Boston is awesome! I've live here for a good 10 years and you'll be hard-pressed to drag me away. I can also probably answer any Boston-related questions you have.

It's got everything listed above, and in my experience is a brighter place than Seattle with better weather. It has the best public transit of any city in the US (except Chicago).

There's plenty to do and a lot of good places nearby to drive to like the white mountains and good modern art.

(Cmouse of Buddha Lounge)