There, there, Bubba.  Here, watch a funny cat video and you'll feel better. 
 

Everyone else heard that, too, right? Right?
 
(I'm going back to my hill.)

Hi,
 
Gotta hand it to Boston, that just told the Olympic committee to take a hike ... the committee is looking for another city to RAPE and PLUNDER financially, and the city gets the pennies and the nickels left over ... not a whole lot of them, but what the heck!
 
To me that is a great city, finally realizing what a scam is.

Boston is already in deep from that big underground tunnel they went millions over budget on.
 
My time window was short there and apparently all of the bakers are too busy to look at PM's ..or didn't want me coming there...in either case I had to leave Boston and it didn't pan out. The place they market from has no outward signage so you would be hard pressed to find it unless you really look. They are located in Bostons China town..I suspect some of the work isn't even done there. In any case I think things always pan put the way they do for good reason. I spent three days in Boston after a cruise from Quebec to Boston with numerous stops along the way. One of those days was a trip to Martha's Vineyard ( an island off the coast of Maine)...where Obama will be next month for vacation.
 
I did get to eat in the original Cheers bar and I met Kack, Lack,Mack and Knack....I rode the swan boat because my wife asked...I went inside out in Boston. It was scary...I was actually starting to acclimate to the place. Just some useless trivia- Samuel Adams is buried there and of course they named a beer after him, but it isn't his face on the label..since he was an ugly guy they decided to put Paul revere's face on the bottle. Boston is home of the American revolution and now when you go there you can't be sure the people you're looking at aren't British, french, or folks from anywhere in the world...since it is very much a tourist place. There were brits staying in my motel...yeah I know...scary :)........Benjamin Franklin was from Boston but had a disagreement with his father and brother so he ran away to Philadelphia to later become one of it's founders. If you go to Phila. most of the tours all include Benjamin Franklin....he really got around.

Underground tunnel??  Dang, why didn't I think of that?

Starise
Boston is already in deep from that big underground tunnel they went millions over budget on.
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At least it is not like Brazil, where they intentionally miss the deadlines, so they can triple the costs on purpose.

Karyn lol!  
 
The idea was to eliminate a huge eyesore in the city since the old road system was up on rusty steel beams. It was aging and instead of replacing it they decided to remove it and put it underground. The traffic made a lot of noise, so they also thought that it would make things quieter. The area looks nice now ( where the road once was). The whole thing was a huge cost and time over run though....then there is the Prudential building with hundreds of glass panes that were just a bit too small and would occasionally pop out onto the street below from way up high. No one died though..and they were able to correct the problem eventually after many of those panes popped out...
 
They have a nice "harba" and the "chowda" is nice too. The Red Sox...meh.... the place is expensive compared  to other cities. To give you some idea...we rented a motel room in the Sonesta in Philadelphia not long ago for 250.00 a night. The Sonesta in Boston is  almost 600.00 a night we lucked out and found a mom and pop city motel that was still nice for 289.00 which is considered a bargain there...three nights still set me back almost a grand.

I don't get what's wrong with putting roads ON the ground, it's not like you're running out of space over there....
 
A grand for 3 nights,  you could have a week over here for that, including the flights...

Karyn
A grand for 3 nights,  you could have a week over here for that, including the flights...

Boston is in Taxachusetts.  Probably 65% or more of that total went to taxes.
(But you're familiar with that concept in the UK, ya?)

Ok Karyn... you've convinced me I'm coming over ok?