What score out of 100 would you give your city in terms of its livability?

[Nikki1989]

We rank #4 in the world, for what's it worth.

[WhiteSteve]

Boston is cool, but driving around here is an absolute nightmare, especially in the summer when people are passing through going north to New Hampshire and Maine, or south towards Cape Cod.

Public transportation is a mess, but it’s decent on paper. One of my hockey teammates drives the commuter rail train. He also has to blow into a breathalyzer for his car to turn on, so take that as you will😂 But the commuter rail line has really opened up the potential for travel in and out of the city deep into the outermost suburbs.

The subway system is pretty good but doesn’t extend more than a town or two outside of the city. It used to just be bus routes from there, but now you can live a good 50 miles away and still have a fairly reasonable commute without sitting in traffic. All kinds of delays and other problems though, so it’s far from perfect, but an option if you can’t afford to live very close.

The city itself is fun, and in the last 20 years they had a huge urban renewal project of an area that was just a fish pier and decrepit warehouses, and now it’s “The Seaport District”, and it’s all luxury condos or luxury lofts built in old warehouse buildings. Great restaurants, shopping, entertainment…. HUGE come-up for the city.

The people…. we’re flavorful, lmao. A lot of educated people here, so we don’t have as many mongos running around as other parts of the country, lmfao, but we still have our share. The “old guard” that’s getting up there in age, the real townies…. they’ve got their charm to them, it’s why they make all those movies about us, haha. But some of them have some prejudices that just seem archaic in 2024. So you meet a lot of great guys called “Sully” and “Fitzy”, and they’re cool as fuck to get drunk with, and they’ll break a bottle over someone’s head if they look at you sideways, but then they just drop that racial slur or something, and you’re just like “gahhhhhhh…. WHY, man?” Just played hockey with a guy who just unabashedly referred to basketball as “African handball”, without even knowing me, so…. that’s a thing, unfortunately.

Anyway, overall…. lots to do, pretty good food, lots of colleges so there’s a young vibe to be found, pretty intelligent people overall relative to other places in America, healthcare is top notch (fortune forbid you get cancer, but if you get cancer, Boston is about the best place for it to happen, incredible cancer hospitals here, including for kids), I find it to be pretty safe (as long as you don’t wear any New York Yankees merch😂), relatively clean. It’s got a lot going for it, but it is expensive. And it IS in America, so that’s kinda inherently fucked lmao.

I guess I’d give it like an 80-85/100. In the 90s relative to American cities, I actually can’t think of many better than here, as far as the total package. But worldwide, probably not scoring as highly.

[WhiteSteve]

Late add, should’ve included this😂
https://youtu.be/_SPYdG7pEno?si=ewlIVk8tftc6Zxtb

[Nikki1989]

Where I live is often compared to Boston. I think the 2 cities have some kind of connection with the way they were designed.

[Iron_Man]

Did you see the Stanley Cup finals? How about those Panthers? They won it in game seven the world championship 😊

[WhiteSteve]

@Iron_Man The Cardiac Cats! Looked like they were going to blow it for a minute there, but they pulled it off! Congrats!!!🏆🍾🥳 Saw Tkachuk and them running into the ocean with the Cup at South Beach. Lord Stanley has never been so far south! Hahaha

[WhiteSteve]

Oh cool…I’m looking at a map and a couple pics, and it definitely seems similar in that it’s built around a bay and also has a river running up to it. Looks like there’s a “Princes Bridge” that kind of reminds me of the Anderson Memorial Bridge we have that connects Boston to the city of Cambridge on the other side of the river, similar architecture and with the aesthetic of the downtown buildings in the foreground. Clear win for you folks on weather though, haha

[Iron_Man]

it was all awesome 😊 today is the parade in a couple hours from now thank you very much

[AviatorTom]

I live in a large metro area, where the quality of living varies based on where one lives.

Where I live, in the suburbs, weather is good, high cost of living, health care is good, schools are good, several parks and trails, low unemployment, low crime rate, mediocre mass transit, horrible vehicle traffic on roads. I'd probably rate it about a 75, with the main negatives be the high cost of living and horrible traffic.

[AviatorTom]

@Nikki1989 Thanks for MHO

[Account]

I will give it a 37 and I am being generous due to the fact that the beaches are close and are pretty nice, there are parks at a walking distance, there are many options when it comes to hanging out and you can find everything at a close walking distance, there are many 24/7 stores which is terrible for the employees but convenient for the others when they want something accessible at later hours , food is great, it is very sunny the entire year,
the wages are shit, the politicians are shit, the rent is shit, the electricity bill and the internet is amongst the most expensive in Europe compared to the wages, the crimality is bad in certain areas, the prices of the supermarket are very high and the education system is atrocious.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I used to live in Nashville, that place easily gets a score of like 35/100 because there’s nothing affordable anymore, and people are still moving there! They’re literally running out of room! I ended up moving to a town about an hour away and guess what? In they come, buying up as much land as possible to make cheap houses they can sell for 13x as much as it cost to build. That place was like a 60/100 but then these people keep coming in and driving up the cost of living. Makes it impossible for me to stay in my home state much longer.

[RetroReviews]

Depends on what you think makes a city livable. Here we have the basics restaurants, bars, parks to walk and for kids to play, walking in bike paths, a mall, movie theater, there is a nice historical theater that's been restored it's called the Midland theater and so this is in Newark Ohio. Fishing parks. But I'm sure most big city folk would probably find it slow and boring. But then again I'm not a big city person. So for my preference I'll give it a 60 out of 100

[Lynx122]

Zürich where I live ranks number 3 but I don't know it's always a bit subjective. Some people like to live in the middle of nowhere alone so it's also the same with these lists different people have diffrent priorities and preferences Switzerland is often in the top 5 in diffrent rankings and that's good but I'm still a bit sceptical. I'm glad I was born here and I get to live here that's all I really care about. Just gratitude and making the best of the opportunity the ranking is just a superficial thing. If you've been to Sydney what do you think makes Melbourne slightly better? Is it better at all? How do you see these two cities in comparison?

[SotiCoto]

1. Out of 100.
And that 1 is only because I am somehow managing to live here... in London... barely.
Then again "glued to existence by my scrotum" might be a better description... as I couldn't exactly call it living.

[exitseven]

I give it a solid 6. I have not been in there since before covid. The traffic is a nightmare, Crime is out of control, public transportation is a joke, the dinner for two is over a hundred bucks, there is no place to park and who needs the abuse. ?

[StudyingAuthor]

Umm, a 50, people here are crazy, and the air quality is shit bc I live in the valley.

[Redstang88]

Top 10 if your parents are millionaires maybe. Skyrocketing housing and dawn til dusk gridlock traffic, among other things, has driven myself and most of my friends out

[Iron_Man]

it’s a very beautiful city a lot of things to do plus the beaches here, but the big problem is it has gotten so expensive now it’s turned into New York City prices and I’m pretty sure you know the city where I live in since I’ve been around here for so long

[Bricealan]

I think a score of 95 for my city is a realistic view of life here.

[andreasderjuengere]

It's a village actually.

It could be an '85' -

but my direct neighbours drop it to '45'

[NYlatefun]

NY is probs 100 or 200 in that list. That now why people are here. It’s about being with the smartest and most competitive people in the world.

[ProbablyClueless]

My city is probably a 93 or 94. It's not really a city though... it's more a large village.

[NathanDavis]

44.4%

[Awantika03]

80 Ludhiana

[ChicoFromThe305]

It's shit

[legalboxers]

no NYC? lol

[OtterMan68]

sixty six