Tell me something about the following places

[Ominous Luminous]

I'm giving lots of thought to moving with my girlfriend when she goes to graduate school and I wanted to know a bit more about the following places.
New Haven, CT
San Francisco
North Carolina
Massachusetts

 

[xfer]

* pizza
* fags
* assholes
* married fags

 

[xfer]

i hope that was helpful!

 

[avi]

SF: insanely expensive rent, way too many homeless people, great food and scenery, close to practically every climate (ocean, forest, desert, snow, etc), reasonable public transport, decent local music scene & lots of cultural events (art/movies/etc).

I prefer to live in the east bay (berkeley/oakland) to SF by a long-shot, but it's good to have the city there. think of SF as a dirtier version of Seattle - it's really similar in a lot of ways both culturally and geographically.

 

[FuSoYa]

Where in NC?

 

[Ominous Luminous]

That's a good question. I think chapel hill, but I'll have to ask my g/f.

 

[Ominous Luminous]

It is in fact Chapel Hill.

 

[Absolut Jim Varney]

Chapel Hill is a cool college town I think, that's where my parents met. And I used to live around there when I was real young. I visit it every Christmas.
I'm originally from the Raleigh area, but then had to move down south.

 

[avi]

my aunt lives in CH. what AJV says is true - it's very charming. probably dies in the summer when the students leave, but that's true of most small college towns. lots of great bands from there, too.

 

[Ominous Luminous]

Cool, that's another thing I was wondering (about local music scenes.) I'm going to have to give up one of my musical projects if I move, so I want to start something new when I get wherever it is I'm going.

 

[minxnim]

<3 massachusetts
dislike sf.

 

[Mallus]

Hey everyone. I lurk here a lot because it's an entertaining board (sorry if it creeps you out). I go to school in Durham, NC and I'll probably go to college in Chapel Hill next fall. It's a very nice college town and there are some good music venues there. Just thought I'd chip in.

By the way, great work Kayo Dot, COTE is amazing.

 

[xfer]

ok for seriously

new haven is an okay town, it's got some nice music stuff, but my understanding is that the venue i went to the most closed in recent years (the Tune Inn). toad's place gets some pretty good bands, though. the Yale aspect means it's got a lot of college-towny cultural stuff, vegetarian restaurants, the best pizza in the world outside NYC, and a culture all its own. plus, the absolute best thing about New Haven is that you can hop a $13 train to NYC (takes about 2 hours) so you can go there just for the day on a saturday, or easily for a weekend. if you live there, you should go to NYC monthly at least.

massachusetts is different depending on where you go, but i'm positively inclined toward it.

 

[minxnim]

yea it depends if it's eastern or western mass.

 

[Ominous Luminous]

Just to clarify, it will be san francisco or Berkeley, and Boston MA.

 

[xfer]

ohh well, boston rules. tons of great food, good atmosphere, feels pretty safe, not especially dirty, not a lot of race problems, colleges, arts, $10 bus ride to NYC, etc.

the public transit sucks, but you don't NEED a car (like you would in NH or Chapel Hill or Berkeley). things closing early (1-2am) sucks. still decent, though.

 

[xfer]

also, it was our fuel-and-people-filled missiles that brought down the twin engines of capitalism on that clear morning in September a few years back.

 

[avi]

you don't need a car in Berkeley. Public transport here is fine.