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^ Just don't use 'em with single malt. That's white-after-Labor-Day gauche.
 
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What a beautiful street. Damn shame.
 
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WHAT. THE. FUCK?!

This the bracket for CurbedBoston's 2012 Neighboorhood Battle. Southie apparently went on to win, but the SEAPORT DISTRICT?!!?!

Seaport District v South End... Seaport?!!?!
Seaport District v Back Bay... Seaport?!?!!

Here are the full results:
First Round: (1) South End vs. (16) Fenway – Winner: South End, 56.8 percent

First Round: (8) East Cambridge vs. (9) Seaport – Winner: Seaport, 67.6 percent

First Round: (5) Leather District vs. (12) Financial District – Winner: Leather District, 61.8 percent

First Round: (4) Back Bay vs. (13) Jamaica Plain – Winner: Back Bay, 64 percent

First Rond: (3) Beacon Hill vs. (14) Downtown Crossing – Winner: Downtown Crossing, 63.4 percent

First Round: (6) Southie vs. (11) Eastie – Winner: South Boston, 82.6 percent

First Round: (7) Somerville vs. (10) Allston – Winner: Somerville, 76.1 percent

First Round: (2) North End vs. (15) Charlestown – Winner: Charlestown, 64.2 percent

Second Round: (1) South End vs. (9) Seaport – Winner: Seaport, 60.6 percent

Second Round: (4) Back Bay vs. (5) Leather District – Winner: Back Bay, 70.1 percent

Second Round: (6) Southie vs. (14) Downtown Crossing – Winner: Southie, 56.2 percent

Second Round: (7) Somerville vs. (15) Charlestown – Winner: Somerville, 65 percent

Final Four: (4) Back Bay vs. (9) Seaport – Winner: Seaport, 62.7 percent

Final Four: (6) South Boston vs. (7) Somerville – Winner: Southie, 61.7 percent
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Makes perfect sense to me. The housing prices aren't batshit crazy. One can get a lot more bang for their buck in terms of rental prices than in the South End or Back Bay and you aren't dealing with a 130 year old walk-up brownstone to boot. It's easy to get just about everywhere worth going in Boston, parking is still abundant and there are some nice restaurants, bars and cultural attractions. It's remarkably clean(most of Boston I find extremely dirty) and it's not yet been infested with bums and beggars. I'm somewhat jaded with the Back Bay. I like the convenience of living where I do, but at the same time the community and condo bullshit is just a pain in the ass after a while. The South End, at least to me, aside from the institutional issues on its peripheries seems to have more going for it at the moment. You can get an amazing property for under or around a million. The restaurant scene is better and best of all, very few tourists. I doubt I'd ever live there, as my next place in Boston, assuming I stick around will most certainly be somewhere on the waterfront but I find the South End far more appealing now than I did five years ago.
 
datadyne007 said:
WHAT. THE. FUCK?!

This the bracket for CurbedBoston's 2012 Neighboorhood Battle. Southie apparently went on to win, but the SEAPORT DISTRICT?!!?!
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The poll's only about real estate and real estate development, so it makes sense in that context. Otherwise, yeah, I agree completely. Fuck's this?
 
Am I the only one who didn't know this?

Greek definition of kairos: a sense of the past that intrudes into and challenges the future.

Discuss.
 
Does the Leather District really even exist anymore? Seems to just be Chinatown...
 
I've been following this topic on and off for a few months and it seems Mother Jones has published a nice comprehensive article:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century.

In states where consumption of leaded gasoline declined slowly, crime declined slowly. Where it declined quickly, crime declined quickly.
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