I keep getting calls about jobs in the Boston area
Would I go nuts there? The pay is pretty decent, but I have a hard time dealing with liberals
I knew one woman at a place I worked who said some joke about how you were stupid or evil if you were republican. right out of the blue, in the middle of any conversation.
I finally had enough and told her not everyone agrees with your politics and wants to be insulted by you all the time.
I’m born and raised in MA. Been here 55 years. I do not recommend the state to anyone, and I’ve told my kids they need to move West and South — my oldest is in PA and says I was right. My youngest is still at home.
MA is very expensive. The salaries are good, but real estate will kill you. You will likely feel poor here even on a big salary. People are rude and unfriendly — I am; everyone is; we don’t know any other way to behave.
Politics is pretty universally Liberal and in-your-face about it. We are racist, homophobic, ageist and sexist — but it’s OK because we vote correctly.
Everyone here thinks that they are the center of the universe and they are clearly better than you are. So get out of their way, you peasant. Good churches are very hard to find. Unitarian, Methodist and other silly things are available, but if you expect your church to crack open a Bible, you will have to search far and wide to find what you want.
We often have Republican governors: William Weld, Mitt Romney, etc. That’s our way of showing people that we are not 100% leftwing looney toons. How we doin’ on that score, chief? And if your name is Kennedy, yes, we will vote for you.
No. This is not a good state.
I should add that I was raised on the North Shore, I lived directly in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville for 20+ years, I worked on the South Shore for 5 years, and I now live a good deal west of the city, near the NH border.
I guess some parts of MA are less obnoxious than others, but there is no escaping the problem by moving to “the good part of the state”. We don’t have one of those.