Growing Old in Boston

I love this city, but is a bitch socially.

First of all, its a college town. Sometimes thats a great thing, and sometimes its an atrocity, but once you've graduated, you've got 2 years before you start feeling like a skeezy old man who's just hung around too long. You know the guys. Graduated UMass Amherst in 2001, and made the big move to North Hampton for the rest of their lives. I'm never bothered by it but now that I get the feeling its what I'm doing, I keep getting depressed.

What was local about Boston is being gerrymandered and overpriced out of town. The Big Dig took a chunk out of too many neighborhoods, and whats left is condo's full of Yuppies. To imagine what sort of hell this takes like, imagine an old city forced to be Manhattan by a bunch of genetic researchers. Sounds like the worst dinner party you've ever been invited to, right? Yeah well it is. Search Stuff @ Night Boston to get photos of what vapid feels like when everyones got a Masters Degree.

I also despise the sampled attitude many former residents have if they'd gone to college here. "Oh Boston, yeah I lived there when I went to BU. Its nice but its just too small for me." Did you live here? Is is too small?

Hot tip to the once and future students of Boston. Getting ripped at a house party in brighton that someones parents were paying for, then talking loudly about how s/he never called you back, and throwing up on the B line does not constitute living here. Get off my god damned lawn.

With all this, I still hold out hope, that someday someones going to throw off the wet-carpet of progress this city is under and start making us a functional city. One with post-bar transit systems and a unique personality. With real bike lanes, a less shitty Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony and maybe some new traditions that put us on the map. Oh and maybe a landmark better than a PVC pipe bridge and a Gas Station sign. And maybe put JP on the map. Can ANYONE find that thing?

Fuck it, I'm running for Mayor.