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For a city where people keep claiming they never think about Boston, they sure talk a lot about Boston
By adamg on Sun, 03/26/2023 - 2:48pm
You may have heard about New York City's failed attempt to upgrade the I HEART NY slogan (which was meant to be for the whole state, yes, even the parts north of the Bronx) to WE HEART NYC. They've coupled that with some Boston dissing:
aside from the abominable design, this we nyc publicity campaign is also very rude pic.twitter.com/hh1dLjWcaI
— deb (@butlikesrsly) March 26, 2023
Jeremy Welsh-Loveman retorts:
You’ll see more trash on the street in NYC by 8am than you’d see in a year in Boston.
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NYC is a rat den masquerading
NYC is a rat den masquerading as a city
To be fair, it also has its
To be fair, it also has its bad side.
genius
"You’ll see more trash on the street in NYC by 8am than you’d see in a year in Boston."
Roughly 8.5 million people live in the 5 boroughs of NYC. Boston has around 675k residents.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Geography
Boston can roughly fit into Central Park! In order to meet he same geographic boundaries as the 5 boroughs of NYC, you could have to include not only Boston proper, but every town inside the 128 belt. That then brings up the population mightily!
What you just said...
...was among the dumbest things ever said on UH. Boston can not fit into Central Park, "roughly" or otherwise. Central Park: 840 acres. Boston: 57 thousand.
You remind me of the trio of Dot folk who claimed, entirely seriously and positive they were correct, that Dorchester was "bigga than whole rest of Bawstin, put togetha!"
Ew
That’s just in bad taste. Other than the Yankees/ Red Sox rivalry, I really don’t get the weird way New Yorkers are obsessed with being better than and dissing Bostonians.
I mean that’s comparing apples to cranberries first of all, and second of all, I really think we don’t care all that much because we’re more secure than that and we know (for the most part) why and how we suck.
I’d be embarrassed if Boston ran a similar campaign.
They aren't, actually
They aren't, actually. Having lived in both places, I would say that the most noteworthy characteristic of New Yorkers (natives that is, or very long time residents, not newbies) is their indifference to and ignorance of life in other places. The very rich get around, sure, but for the rest it really is like the world ends at the city limits, and nothing beyond is of much interest to them - doesn't matter if it's Boston or anywhere else.
New York fans
At Fenway, and even at the Garden fans chant “Yankees suck”
But at Yankee Stadium and MSG the locals chant “Boston sucks”, not referring to one team but the entire city.
They are indeed preoccupied with everything Boston.
Boston is to NYC as Canada is
Boston is to NYC as Canada is to the US.
Cleaner, less violent, and better healthcare?
Oh, and colder?
Nyc lost its soul about 20
Nyc lost its soul about 20 years ago. Over priced over rated city of carpet baggers
To the north, and with an
To the north, and with an iconic coffee brand?
I mean, if you want money
I mean, if you want money moved around, and the rich further enriched, they do a better job than we do. Tell you what, though, let's put $20 down on which town cures cancer first.
I do envy them their subway. I'll give them that.
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At least
Until you get pushed in front of a train.
At least they have trains to
At least they have trains to get pushed in front of. Get pushed onto the tracks on this town and you'll die of starvation before a train gets anywhere near you.
Sooooo... click through that Outkick link and...
Mike Gunzelman has this to say:
Oooh. 15 years! Wow, you're practically a city father, aren't you?
I went to a zoning meeting when I lived in Somerville. The first person who got up to speak said, "They say if you haven't lived in Somerville for 50 years you're a newcomer. I'm a newcomer who's lived here for 40 years." One by one, everyone who spoke introduced themselves as a newcomer, even though nobody had lived there for less than 15 years.
50 years? Get back to us when
50 years? Get back to us when your grandfather died here.
Not to burst anyone's bubble, but I
find it hard to believe that anything more than a tiny majority of New Yorkers ever thinks of Boston outside of sporting contexts, and even then, the old rivalries have lost a lot of their power after the Title Town era.
Yankees/Sox? Jets-Giants/Pats? Ho-hum. Our teams have won more rings recently, but not enough for New Yorkers to feel like perennial underdogs. The hot B's and C's rivalries aren't centered there. Maybe if the Sox and Pats continue to be mediocre for the next ten years, some of that self-pitying / ragey animus will return (to us).
Agreed. NYC never crosses my
Agreed. NYC never crosses my mind. Pathetic ad campaign. Say you have worries about your own inadequacy/decline without actually saying it. Definitely feeling that in Boston, but don’t feel the need to call random smaller town out.
In recent years, I've met
In recent years, I've met Yankees fans who prefer seeing their team play in Boston.
Don't fall for it.
All of the comments here are based upon an advertising campaign. It's a false narrative that is most likely based on someone's perception of an ancient rivalry that, as someone pointed out, is based on sports. Don't fall prey to the advertising and allow yourself to be manipulated. If that ad didn't exist, would you even be thinking about this at all?
Living rent free in the minds of New Yorkers...
Which is great because the rent here is getting out of control.
Boston is the ...
Cape Cod of Long Island... next topic
Ice Cube's "I Wanna Kill Sam"
...and its way-awesomer reference to that Army recruiting slogan is what that silly ad campaign reminds me of.