It's like a YELP for cities
I just found an interesting resource for learning what living conditions are like in different cities. http://www.bestplaces.net/ It tells you the basics in cost of living, housing, schools, crime, and so on. But the best thing is the comments, where you can express your opinion of the
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I'd say people here are basically rude, because they're in a hurry to go nowhere, so they just shut out the knowledge of the existence of the people around them. Unless they're cruising in a singles bar. Maybe because Boston has a high profile of young, intellectually smart, self-absorbed college agers? But frankly in my (admittedly personally limited) experience, I've gotten more offhand rudeness from early 40's professional types, who feel more entitled to the space around them than thou.
A work colleague just moved to New Mexicon. She's loving the difference. Hr boss gives her work, without a deadline: it will get done in the amount of time it takes to get done, not yesterday when he's just given it to her this morning. The people at work tend to eat lunch together. His boss has already invited her and her husband to dinner, whereas our old boss had a golden rule: "private and work separate. I'm not your buddy, I'm the one that has to whip you inot shape." She's a bit weirded out that thee are no part-time jobs, like she had here. It's ALL 8 am to 5 pm. But much more relaxed. She gets her work done in half a day. And in the afternoon she puts on her mucking out boots nad goes to the backyard of the University of New Mexico 4H club headquarters and plays with the sheep, goats, cows and chickens.
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