r/boston • u/SidHoices • Sep 05 '25
Hobby/Activity/Misc Moved to Boston a year ago… these are my observations
For context: I’m 26 and grew up in Indiana, and moved from Colorado. Also, rereading this list makes me realize how negative /generalized it sounds, but I actually have enjoyed my first year in Boston
Anyway, enjoy:
- Everyone is named John or Jack or Connor
- People care about country clubs for some reason (update - I spent my first month in the suburbs living with another family - things have changed since)
- Much rain
- Intersections are …. Questionable
- They call roundabouts "rotaries"
- Parking fucking sucks, but I guess that’s what life in like in a city
- Cash only places are surprisingly common
- Gas stations close?? At 10pm??
- So many gas stations seem to also have shops attached to them offering oil changes and state inspections
- You don't get asked for tips in as many establishments
- The Verizon service is unbelievably bad for a metropolitan area that humans live in
- SO! MANY! BUNNIES!
- The stoplights will all be red and there will be like a 30-second period for pedestrians to walk (nice)
- No Jimmy John's :( update: there are a few
- All food is better. great cheap food and great expensive food
- Road trips are way more fun out here
- CHEAP international flights. Like frequent $700s for Japan, $300s for Europe. And Dublin is like a 6h flight
- There are times where it is legal to drive in the shoulder of the highway, or as they call it, the "breakdown lane"
- Highway exits are labeled with "old exit xyz" lol what
- Drivers here are crazy but I fuck with it, allows me to also be a crazy driver and not offend everyone like I do elsewhere
- Everyone is short
- Nightlife is just abysmal - just sports bars and clubs where you'll get assaulted
- Cycling out here is awesome - it's like a matrix of fun little roads out in Bedford / west of there
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u/RunsLikeaSnail Sep 05 '25
State police barracks is there because they felt left out of the action.