This bias permeates throughout social circles and businesses seeking qualified job applicants. Yet, Boston's strong economy accommodates growth for anyone who is motivated to succeed.
Culturally, Boston is no New York. but, for a city of 600,000, great cultural activities are available without the burden of dealing with an overwhelmingly large city.
The city's numerous theaters include the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston Opera House, the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Schubert Theater, and the Orpheum Theater. Performing arts groups are some of the best to be found in the country and include the Boston Ballet, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Lyric Opera Company, and the Handel and Haydn Society. Free summer concerts on the Charles River Esplanade are a joy with excellent acoustics and a festive atmosphere. Boston also has several fine museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Museum of Science.
Unless you can deal with weather extremes, Boston is not the place to be, at least weather wise. Most notably, Boston's winters are long, cold, windy and snowy. The city averages 42 inches of snowfall a year with brutal nor'easter storms that can dump as much as 20 inches of snow in a single storm. The coldest month is January, averaging a high of 35.8 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 21.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Often times it seems that Boston skips the fall season and moves right into winter and bypasses spring and goes right into a hot and humid summer. Even adamant skiers and other winter sports enthusiasts find they need to get a break from the long winter. Bostonians are noted for their winter escapes in February and March to vacation spots in Florida and the Caribbean. However, this relief can sometimes actually serve to make the winters seem even longer and more severe. Further, weekend trips and summer vacations to nearby Cape Cod, just south of Boston, as well as the...
Provided that it doesn't rain during your selected getaway times, Boston and the Cape area averages 42 inches of rainfall a year, these trips do help make the summer more enjoyable.
So, what's a little lousy weather, when Boston is such an innovator in fostering historical change, economic opportunity and personal development through education and culture? Things constantly change and we never know what will happen next. Clearly, Boston's provides the foundation and the adaptability so that one can best deal for whatever the future holds.
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Banner, David. "The History of Boston, Massachusetts." Retrieved from Web site: http://www.searchboston.com/history.html
Wikipedia, "Boston Massachusetts." Retrieved from Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts
Massachusetts Tourist Information. "Boston Area Information." Retrieved from Web site: http://www.masstourist.com/boston.htm
Wikipedia, "Boston Massachusetts." Retrieved from Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts
