Wish they'd also mentioned Aspen or Vail, where workers must live very far from the places they work. Boston's becoming like that.

As rent control went into effect in metro Boston, there were pros and cons. Yes, the city is cleaner; yes, the transportation in and out of the city has improved greatly (commuters with $ make that happen). But the neighborhoods that gave the place its personality are gone. When I was a kid, Harvard Square had a violin-repair shop; a music store devoted to classical music only; a diner called Tasty, which was about four feet wide, with only three or four stools; and a whole lot of hippy-dippy houses with hippy-dippy tenants, who I am sure weren't paying much rent. Today the Square looks like an outdoor version of any mall in America.

(BTW For the poster who pointed out a typo--get sex. Or a life. We're not writing treatises, for chrissakes. )