A difference between Boston and L.A.

Newly arrived from Los Angeles for graduate study, Jessie notices a difference between the two cities in a parking garage:

... On level 2B (not to be confused with 2A), someone had written underneath 2B "OR NOT TO BE." How original. What cracks me up about this whole thing is that - in L.A., it's easy to come across graffiti that is unreadable, or makes absolutely no sense. But in Boston, where the concentration of schools of higher learning are more concentrated than Starbucks coffeehouses on the street corners in Seattle, graffiti is "smart" and readable. ...

Also see:
Urban hieroglyphics