What are you â new?
With shots of cynicism and sarcasm, a native to region tells you how to fit in.
By Kara Baskin Globe Correspondent,Updated February 7, 2021, 12:00 a.m.
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I spent nearly a decade in Washington, D.C., after growing up outside Boston. It was so carefree. Driving was a breeze; streets were laid out in a grid and abided by simple geographic principles, such as ânorthâ and âsouth.â Everyone was from someplace else, so it was easy to make new friends. The summers were humid, but the winters were mild. Nobody used flimsy lawn chairs to save parking spaces in snowstorms â in fact, whenever it flurried, the entire city just shut down instead. The government didnât always function, but the subways did.
Without Conventions, Colleges, Boston Hotel Performance Was Worst In The Nation In 2020
Boston hotels were decimated by the coronavirus pandemic last year, underperforming their peers in other cities, bringing down one of the nation’s priciest places to visit.
Visitors in 2019 paid on average $199 a night in Boston, a rate only behind New York City, Oahu and San Francisco, according to hospitality research firm STR. The city ended 2020 with an average rate of $122 a night.
Combined with an occupancy rate of 33%, a decline of nearly two-thirds of 2019 levels, revenues per available room in Boston dropped 71.3%, the worst decline among STR’s top 25 hospitality markets.
Kara Baskin - Globe Correspondent February 3, 2021 11:26 am
I spent nearly a decade in Washington, D.C., after growing up outside Boston. It was so carefree. Driving was a breeze; streets were laid out in a grid and abided by simple geographic principles, such as “north’’ and “south.’’ Everyone was from someplace else, so it was easy to make new friends. The summers were humid, but the winters were mild. Nobody used flimsy lawn chairs to save parking spaces in snowstorms in fact, whenever it flurried, the entire city just shut down instead. The government didn’t always function, but the subways did.