Coming to Boston for the Summer! all advice appreciated!

hi there,

I%26#39;m coming to Boston for the Summer and need as much advice as possible. Please feel free to tell me everything and anything about this city! I would really appreciate it!

oh yeah, and if anyone could tell me about the Red Sox too, that would be great....I%26#39;ve heard so much about them!

Thanks,

Kikibelle

Coming to Boston for the Summer! all advice appreciated!

Hey Kikibelle,

Summer is Boston is awesome. if you enjoy seeing historical sites you should follow the red line (do not confuse it with the MBTA Red Line). It starts in Downtown, Boston. All you have to do is follow that line, it will take you to all sites and bring you back to the starting point. So do not worry about getting lost. There are some good foods along the red line as well. i would suggest you to take the walk over the weekend and in the early morning. The Charlestown area is not very lovely at night but no problems in Boston.

You should also put Museum of Science and Museum of Fine art on your list. I personally enjoy museum of fine art, and took my first date there.

For transportation, try to always use the MBTA subways and buses. It will take you to point A to point B in the shortest amount of time during the Sox game.

About Sox game, all I have to say is, GO AND SEE IT! They are having a great season this year. You will love it!

Safety advice, try not going into Dorchester at night. I know some people will start yelling at me, but it is not an area I will spend my evening on the street.

Jason

Coming to Boston for the Summer! all advice appreciated!

Jason,

thank you so much for information! unfortunatly, i have no interest watsoever in history!! sorry!! but hopefully from spending the Summer there, I%26#39;ll get to see EVERYTHING!

Is it easy to book tickets to the Red Sox%26#39;s games?!

I%26#39;m in the process of looking for accommdation and jobs!

Have you any other places that aren%26#39;t nice at night...trouble is the last thing I need!

kikibelle

Hi,

Well, Boston was founded in 1630 by Puritan colonists from England. And...

Your post is a smidgen on the broad side. Nonetheless, here are some bullet points to focus on:

--don%26#39;t bring a car...take the T

--need an apartment for the summer? try brighton. go to craigslist.org.

--red sox? went 86 years without a world series until 2004. getting seats is difficult and expensive, but try stubhub.com.

--restaurants? the north end is our italian-american section. walk into any restaurant and check it out. legal seafood and atlantic fish co. for seafood, abe and louie%26#39;s and grill 23 for steak.

--irish bars? too many to mention. irish-american sections? try south boston, dorchester or charlestown(although gentrification has changed things a bit).

shopping? newbury street in back bay, and quincy market

--attractions? take a duck tour, have a picnic along the charles river, walk the freedom trail, check out Boston%26#39;s Public Garden, new england aquarium, etc. etc.

that should fill your summer up nicely.

Hi,

Thank you so much for you help. I%26#39;ve just printed it out and added it to my collection!

I%26#39;m looking for a cheap hotel near Logan Airport for a party of 6! I%26#39;v been told to book a Hostel for a few nights while i%26#39;m searching for accomadation and jobs.

Is it easy to find acc/jobs in the city when i get there?!

Waterboy, I won%26#39;t yell at you. I agree that Dorchester can be a rough place, but you might acknowlege that half of Neponset is fresh over from Ireland.... Savin Hill, Neponset, Cedar Grove: all new Irish. There are streets that are very walkable at night. It%26#39;s not all a great warzone.

I appreciate your point about not wanting someone who doesn%26#39;t know where she%26#39;s going to go wandering into unsafe territory. I%26#39;m writing this as context. I think to dismiss a whole n-hood so abruptly is to tell only part of the story.

Dot is Boston%26#39;s largest and most diverse n-hood and parts of it are very unsafe at any hour of day, unfortunately, but Dorchester is also not the only ';unsafe'; part of town. If you look at where the gun violence has been, it%26#39;s in a small part of Dot, not the whole neighborhood. Dot isn%26#39;t the only n-hood known for street violence, either. Roxbury and Mattapan have tough reputations too.

I%26#39;d rather stay at the Dorchester Doubletree than at any of the South End hotels near the old City Hospital, and I%26#39;d rather walk parts of Dot Ave at night than traverse the Theatre District and Chinatown late at night.

Adams Village, Cedar Grove, Lower Mills, Neponset (all parts of Dorcheseter)..more cops live there than are out on patrol on a given night.

All in all, though, I agree with your advice. I don%26#39;t want to be naive about street crime, but I also don%26#39;t want to dismiss all of Dorchester as some war-zone and paint downtown as some idyllic peaceful place. There are some very nasty parts of downtown too. You can even get punched out at the Symphony--or stabbed outside its doors.

I%26#39;m not disagreeing with you, Waterboy, just trying to fill in some more of the story. Boston -- all of it-- is a city and the whole safety issue is more complex than cordoning off one neighborhood and saying it%26#39;s off-limits.

I agree with CoCoSandy, the location I pointed out is just part of the stories. I should not have said the entire location is dangerous. However, I understand the feeling of a traveler. It might be easier for us who live in Boston for a while to understand those small differences and border between the location and know where should go and should not go. It is more valuable for a visitor to know which area is more safe, so they can avoid troubles at the beginning and later learn the good things in some of those areas. It is better than the other way around.

Kikibelle, you should join the July 4 even as well. You would like it. Boston is big for her histories, but if you are not into those. You can still visit those museums in Harvard. You will be surprised by the amount of collection they have in there.

Also take the Duck Tours, http://www.bostonducktours.com/ my suggestion is do it at the afternoon, like 3 or so. That way, you won%26#39;t hit the traffic, and the sun set is night views.

Again, you do not need a car, use MBTA.

Hey Kikibelle,

As far as finding a job goes. I am not sure what kind of position you are looking for. But Boston is a big place and fill with all kinds opportunities. If you just need something over the summer, try to temp agency. here is one that my friend used: http://www.aquent.com/

Enjoy your staying

Hi Kiki,

If you want an area with easy access to the T (subway), lots of fellow Irish citizens, and lots of pubs, and less expensive rentals, try Quincy. It%26#39;s a city immediately south of Boston. The Red Line runs through it, so you can be downtown on the T in 20 minutes or less. Also, it%26#39;s very safe, and there will be tons of your fellow countrymen to show you around. I think you%26#39;d feel safer in Quincy than in Dorchester.

Also, being near the shore, it%26#39;s great in the summer time, to hang out at the beaches in town, or just be near the water.

The above advice is excellent, I%26#39;ll just add some other websites you might like to check out:

http://www.boston.com

http://boston.citysearch.com

http://www.thephoenix.com

http://www.weeklydig.com

Also, the websites for the City of Boston and the City of Quincy, which both have good information:

http://www.cityofboston.gov

http://www.ci.quincy.ma.us/about.asp