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^ **snicker** Like ya'll on this forum aren't fetishizing buildings and skyscrapers... :P I have a good friend who is 1/4 Filipino 1/4 Mexican 1/4 American Indian 1/4 German. What an intriguing mix, eh? She's into all things Filipino. :wink: (If I posted her pic here, she'd kill me.)...

^Lots of Filipinos out here to allow you to indulge in your fetish. :wink: Sounds like a good combination of summer jobs--away from the studies you plan on immersing yourself in for the next three years--a bit of mind and a bit of matter--to sweat away the NNE winter blubber. Ha! Here's a...

Yeah. I spent alot of my childhood in amusement parks. I am a coaster fanatic. When you come down to it, amusement parks are creepy in their own way, even when fully functioning. The ruins of Lincoln Park in Dartmouth are particularly creepy since it was documented over a twenty year period as...

^Ahhh, yes, Revere Beach in all its gory glory. Heheh. All the beaches around Boston and the inner harbors remained polluted and unswimmable into the 80s--Malibu, Wollaston, Winthrop--if I recall correctly. When you are young (under eighteen), you don't notice the scrunginess. When I went to...

Ahhhh, the safe way to go. I've been tackled by security guards taking indoor pics in the Bay Area. I must be on some hit list or watch list or something. :lol: C'mon DTDave. I know you're game. If you are still in Boston... The above building that kz1000ps and I covet is the Board of...

Why not move back to Boston, you ask? Do you read the humorless, pissy shit posted here. That's one reason. :roll: Plus Boston is no economic picnic either, at least in the inner-belt burbs. The other place I could live, outside New England, would be NYC. Again...unlikely. One of my sister's...

^Damn right! That's what made the street so much more interesting than any solidly 'upscale' stretch of Michigan or 5th or Rodeo, etcetera, etc., etc. (sic). That's when the sterility sets in. Let's give Newbury Street back to the sloppy masses. I wanna trip over a sandwich board or two every...

A start to what I was going to say, ZenZen, but to expand it further... Let's talk about the clutter. I think the boards have been there my entire lifetime. I never recall anything less than the obstacle course of sandwich boards. Never bothered me. Considering the street's upscale reputation...

^I finally bought my own camera. I'll be back in Boston in the fall and will take perspectives you've likely never considered before. Really. Waiting for my sister to zip me the photos I took with her camera while I was there in April. I have a few interior building shots on my laptop at home...

You mean the lack of condo development. These plans for Revere Beach, calling it Ft. Lauderdale North if I recall correctly during the early 80s, never quite materialized, did they? I guess that's the 'comeback'...exchanging the Ft. Lauderdale model for the Miami Beach model?? :roll: I miss...

^Wow! Is that Washington Street?! I walked down much of it when I was there in April but it didn't seem as dense as that at the time. Better than it was...I suppose.... Raising the bar.... :?: :) (Hey, it's my idea and I'm selling it to their ad agency! :wink:) And statler, another one...

What?! Just like any city being synonymous with some old building or monument or park, or recreation facility or natural archapelego (sp?). Big deal, right? That makes it all pretty sad, then. Like we are sad for prattling on about useless minutia. This is a ridiculous discussion. Who cares if...

Excellent! Lower Mills--Bakers Chocolate Factory? philip--decent photo/view of the Seaport. Like the boats and water perspective. Unfortunately, from a distance, looks exactly like all the office parks in the Bay Area, like down Silicon Valley/San Jose/Peninsula that dot the landscape all...

^ Good post and info cneal. Living in Oakland, CA, another city that maintains and upgrades its port frequently, has even Seattle and LA and SF (by far) beat in many economic areas because its port remains so strong. I hope Portland keeps it's fishing industry lively, too--not just 'hard'...

This was just the top tier of the list. I didn't copy the rest of it, and I've since lost the source material. Doh! Salaries are not all that different here than in NYC or Boston. Well, not mine anyway. In fact, I was making more in 1995 than I make now. Most of my friends have moved (Chicago...

^ My first 'corporate' job was in 99 High (aka Keystone Building--worked for its first namesake).

To parallel the discussion that began with statler's post in the open thread-- Choke on this info! :) It's all relative because the prices out here in California are so far off base in comparison to even NYC Metro and Boston and the DC area. Sales of homes worth $1 million or more, by state...

Yup discussed and is now lost. **sniff** Oakland IS it's own animal. Oakland Metro (Alameda County) is about 1.8 million people--just because you like the numbers, patrick. Oakland is considered anywhere from 5th to 8th on the most expensive list, depending on which one you look at. Median...

Wow. I am surprised at the escalation in price in such a short time. But it does have 5 bedrooms and three plus baths. It's a big house. I am most surprised because the homes in the nicer parts of Codman Square, all of which are bigger, and you could say more grand than those in West Roxbury...

Oh, you poor Schmoe...oh, wait, that's the other Joe... :wink: I've used the A train for those few times I flew into JFK (usually avoid JFK, prefer Newark) and I wasn't pressed for time. LIRR is not a good idea for where you are going in Manhattan. Much better with the subway. So shuttling...