Comments on: My Love Hate Relationship with Boston http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John K http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4797 John K Thu, 10 May 2007 05:24:33 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4797 Boston says, "Thanks for the visit." Boston says, “Thanks for the visit.”

]]> By: AM http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4796 AM Thu, 10 May 2007 03:03:27 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4796 Great post. I have been living in Boston for the past 7 years but will move to NYC in a few days. Boston can be irritating sometimes, but I really enjoyed this city. Pride, brains, risk taking... are some of the words that come to my mind when I think of Boston. Education is Boston's main driver, both for quantity and quality. Universtities are everywhere. No better guarantee for the future. I also love the contrast between tradition and modernism: architecture, politics, sports, values, neighborhoods... I will definitely miss Boston. Great post. I have been living in Boston for the past 7 years but will move to NYC in a few days. Boston can be irritating sometimes, but I really enjoyed this city. Pride, brains, risk taking… are some of the words that come to my mind when I think of Boston. Education is Boston’s main driver, both for quantity and quality. Universtities are everywhere. No better guarantee for the future. I also love the contrast between tradition and modernism: architecture, politics, sports, values, neighborhoods… I will definitely miss Boston.

]]> By: Brad Feld http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4795 Brad Feld Wed, 09 May 2007 12:49:56 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4795 @D.C. - while it depends on who is writing the history, it's probably some of both. @D.C. – while it depends on who is writing the history, it’s probably some of both.

]]> By: Gong Szeto http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4794 Gong Szeto Tue, 08 May 2007 22:55:37 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4794 i, too, have a love-hate thing with boston. my parents emigrated from hong kong and settled in south boston in the 60's (ghetto). then we moved to malden (boring). then it was newton (too tony). then two decades later i lived in cambridge (no complaints, except that parking is a bear). it is a cool city both old(founded in 1630) and new(the tech corridor) vs. silicon valley and sand hill road, which is just new and new. i think you might be a different kind of VC being from boston. how? i am not sure, but there is most certainly a difference in style and manner that i have observed from west coast VC's and east coast VC's (and i will throw in third coast too as in austin). but the MIT people i've met are in a class (or ether) all by themselves. i, too, have a love-hate thing with boston. my parents emigrated from hong kong and settled in south boston in the 60’s (ghetto). then we moved to malden (boring). then it was newton (too tony). then two decades later i lived in cambridge (no complaints, except that parking is a bear). it is a cool city both old(founded in 1630) and new(the tech corridor) vs. silicon valley and sand hill road, which is just new and new. i think you might be a different kind of VC being from boston. how? i am not sure, but there is most certainly a difference in style and manner that i have observed from west coast VC’s and east coast VC’s (and i will throw in third coast too as in austin). but the MIT people i’ve met are in a class (or ether) all by themselves.

]]> By: D. C. http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4793 D. C. Tue, 08 May 2007 20:05:23 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4793 "... one ABD ejection ..." Since you opened the door, Brad, did you mean they tossed you out, or that you pulled the face curtain? “… one ABD ejection …”

Since you opened the door, Brad, did you mean they tossed you out, or that you pulled the face curtain?

]]> By: Taylor http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4792 Taylor Tue, 08 May 2007 19:33:08 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4792 What a great post. I think of Atlanta as the same for me. Maybe I should head down south for a nostalgic run through Piedmont Park and downtown ATL... What a great post.

I think of Atlanta as the same for me. Maybe I should head down south for a nostalgic run through Piedmont Park and downtown ATL…

]]> By: Bob http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4791 Bob Tue, 08 May 2007 17:21:10 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4791 Hey Brad, thanks for that, I feel the same way! I spent closer to 20 years in the Boston area; 10 before college and 10 after. I loved Cambridge, the ocean, the intense green in the spring and even the occasional blizzard in the winter. Most of my family is still there so I go back often, but it was a bittersweet departure 10 years ago. Lots of reasons to get out and start over someplace new. I've been in Boulder now for 10 years and can't imagine living anywhere else! Boston is a distant, but still mostly pleasant memory, and a wonderful place to visit. Bob Rose Hey Brad, thanks for that, I feel the same way!

I spent closer to 20 years in the Boston area; 10 before college and 10 after. I loved Cambridge, the ocean, the intense green in the spring and even the occasional blizzard in the winter.

Most of my family is still there so I go back often, but it was a bittersweet departure 10 years ago.

Lots of reasons to get out and start over someplace new.

I’ve been in Boulder now for 10 years and can’t imagine living anywhere else! Boston is a distant, but still mostly pleasant memory, and a wonderful place to visit.

Bob Rose

]]> By: Rick http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4790 Rick Tue, 08 May 2007 15:48:54 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4790 Yeah but as soon as you get in a car to drive anywhere in Boston, the hate part of the love-hate relationship comes back to bite you in the ass! Yeah but as soon as you get in a car to drive anywhere in Boston, the hate part of the love-hate relationship comes back to bite you in the ass!

]]> By: Bruce http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4789 Bruce Tue, 08 May 2007 14:57:36 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4789 It was the view from the middle of the Harvard Bridge that originally inspired me to move to Boston. I loved the scale of the surrounds, I loved the scale of the potential. It was the view from the middle of the Harvard Bridge that originally inspired me to move to Boston. I loved the scale of the surrounds, I loved the scale of the potential.

]]> By: Dave http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/05/my-love-hate-relationship-with-boston.html/comment-page-1#comment-4788 Dave Tue, 08 May 2007 14:32:44 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1632#comment-4788 Ha. I knew there was some love in there somewhere for Boston ;-) Ha. I knew there was some love in there somewhere for Boston ;-)

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