Boston IS "loserville". The claim that "half" the modern weapon systems being used in Iraq were designed by the MIT and Harvard communists, exclusively, is laughable. The higher incomes in Massachusetts are relative; it costs more to cover the kickbacks, payola, graft, and corruption that permeates Massachusetts, so pay scales have to be proportionally higher than elsewhere. And as far as Massachusetts being a haven for "conservatives" in the state house and senate, that must explain why the tax burden is so high and the "conservatives" must now get used to unfettered abortion, gay marriage, and euthanasia; particularly all of those "conservative" Catholics who've re-elected Chappaquiddick Fats for an eternity.
There is a strange dichotomey in MA. The State house and Senate are contolled by conservative dems who are social conservatives but fiscal liberals who tax and spend. But they also routinely nominate obvious libs to our supreme court and then act all surprised over their sick tyrannical decisions like this latest gay marriagge thing. At least they are trying to fight it now.