And then there were two... (Boston: place to live, safest, cities)

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

NYC learned its lesson when it watched itself get smashed up and looted, hence their election results. Like I said earlier, voters won't use their brain until they learn the hard way.

This. All but the most militant progressives there, have learned the "hard way" from the disastrous experiment they took on the past 8 years. As they say, most people are only smart enough to learn from their "own mistakes" rather than those of others. "Don't say we didn't warn ya", will be the new "1918" in a few years.

[Lampert]

Originally Posted by massnative71

This. All but the most militant progressives there, have learned the "hard way" from the disastrous experiment they took on the past 8 years.

Like what? What has gone completely awry in NYC in the past 8 years?

[Boston Shudra]

For people who know: is it "Ah-nih-sa" or "Ah-nee-sa"?

[WestieWhitie]

It's pronounced as "not a shyster promising a bunch of freebies she had no ability or intention to deliver in order to have a bunch of gullible fools get her to the next stepping stone.". Quite a mouthful, eh?

Originally Posted by Boston Shudra

For people who know: is it "Ah-nih-sa" or "Ah-nee-sa"?

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

It's pronounced as "not a shyster promising a bunch of freebies she had no ability or intention to deliver in order to have a bunch of gullible fools get her to the next stepping stone.". Quite a mouthful, eh?

Moreso than "corrupt politician using her power to aid husband's private business", but comme-ci comme-ca I guess.

On a more serious note, I would really like an answer to my pronunciation question. I could try to look on youtube for an interview or something, but it'd be a lot easier if someone here just happens to know.

[WestieWhitie]

You mean Wu who happens to be married to some real estate bigwig? Or do we conveniently overlook everything for those we like and point out everything for those we don't like?

Originally Posted by Boston Shudra

Moreso than "corrupt politician using her power to aid husband's private business", but comme-ci comme-ca I guess.

On a more serious note, I would really like an answer to my pronunciation question. I could try to look on youtube for an interview or something, but it'd be a lot easier if someone here just happens to know.

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

You mean Wu who happens to be married to some real estate bigwig? Or do we conveniently overlook everything for those we like and point out everything for those we don't like?

Did she actively block developments that would impede views from her husband's properties?

[WestieWhitie]

I'd like to see a proof of that please. As for blocking development we'll see plenty of that under "NIMBYhood input" Wu, to an extent nothing but a single family on at least an acre with st least 20 parking spaces will get built.

Originally Posted by Boston Shudra

Did she actively block developments that would impede views from her husband's properties?

[missionhill]

If Wu should get elected then for the first time the Mayor of Boston won't be in political debt to voters whose principal voting identity is being white. We're used to contests where one candidate is appealing directly to whiteness while the other candidate reaches out to other groups while reassuring the white voter-- for example, the Hicks-White election in 1967, which was a knockoff of the Lindsay-Wagner election in New York a few years earlier; Wagner being the Essabi-George style temperate moderate and Linsday the brash progressive reformer--both with political bases of varying strength across the usual high-voting precincts. In other cases, the choice is white or something else but the white guy tends to win: crude Giuliani sent Dinkins packing and genial Ray Flynn of South Boston defeated Mel King whose coalition looked a bit like the Wu train. If Wu makes it, people who object to bike lanes on centre street in West Roxbury won't have much sway in City Hall. NIMBY-ism is broadly ecumenical; people on Dudley Street are just as protective of neighborhood character/fearful of dense new projects as the Parkway crowd so she'll have plenty of opposition to contend with wherever she looks, but the politics will be very different if mayor's base is a citywide coalition rather than the usual high-voting precincts.

[WestieWhitie]

Citywide coalition of gullible fools who bought into her fairy tales, you mean? Because let’s be honest, I can’t think of a single sane person who actively desires to live in a grotesque amalgamation of San Francisco and Minneapolis which would be the real-world outcome of her policies.

Originally Posted by missionhill

If Wu should get elected then for the first time the Mayor of Boston won't be in political debt to voters whose principal voting identity is being white. We're used to contests where one candidate is appealing directly to whiteness while the other candidate reaches out to other groups while reassuring the white voter-- for example, the Hicks-White election in 1967, which was a knockoff of the Lindsay-Wagner election in New York a few years earlier; Wagner being the Essabi-George style temperate moderate and Linsday the brash progressive reformer--both with political bases of varying strength across the usual high-voting precincts. In other cases, the choice is white or something else but the white guy tends to win: crude Giuliani sent Dinkins packing and genial Ray Flynn of South Boston defeated Mel King whose coalition looked a bit like the Wu train. If Wu makes it, people who object to bike lanes on centre street in West Roxbury won't have much sway in City Hall. NIMBY-ism is broadly ecumenical; people on Dudley Street are just as protective of neighborhood character/fearful of dense new projects as the Parkway crowd so she'll have plenty of opposition to contend with wherever she looks, but the politics will be very different if mayor's base is a citywide coalition rather than the usual high-voting precincts.