NYC is open 24/7 on paper. In reality, I was surprised to find the nightlife at night very poor. Except few bars/restaurants and McDonald's, there are few people. But maybe I was spoiled from Bangkok, Tokyo and the other Asian cities who are hardcore at staying late.

Tokyo stays up late because of their train schedule. The last trains are mostly around 1AM which is too early for a night out, so most people just end up extending their night outs to 5AM first train back home. Taxis are too expensive.

Yeah, Boston wants you to be going home at 12AM, when the last trains are leaving their stations, and they force bars/clubs/restaurants/etc to be closed by 2AM, period.

It makes me miss the random industrial city in another country I lived in for my MSc. Admittedly, that's one of my favorite cities period, but it had night-owl bus lines, including BRT. You could go out at 20:30, stay out until 04:30, and get home at 5:45.

Preach. Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people. They hyper regulate all activities and services that young people want to participate in or use as you point out, do nothing to reign in housing prices, and then are shocked when they have a hard time retaining talented people after they get their degrees. It's absurd.

>and then are shocked when they have a hard time retaining talented people after they get their degrees.

I mean, come on. Are they shocked? Or is this how the townies want it? My impression is that quite a lot of the "natives" who think of themselves as "True Bostonians(TM)" (ie: not just those of us who've lived here for years, married someone raised here, and own property here) want this place to be the world's most populous (but rather restrictive) college town.

Why would they want more people around to ruin their city by walking around doing things? Come, spend your money like a tourist, fuel their businesses, get your degree if you're one of those workaholic nerds, and get the fuck back out. You can come back eventually if you manage to make the tenure track!

>Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people.

Massachusetts is overtly hostile to anyone who does not step in line the way a good well behaved cog in the machine should. Making it hard for people to stay out late and get drunk is just a specific instance of that.

When you picture the state as being run by a committee of stodgy puritanical authoritarians who live in Lincoln and Lexington it all makes sense.

> It makes me miss the random industrial city in another country I lived in for my MSc.

Why not just say Haifa?

Because most people don't know where that is, and aren't stalking my LinkedIn to see where I got the MSc.

Hard to call that "stalking" when you made it so blatantly out there for people to visit.

This is a tech-industry news site. Half of the people here are on real names and/or provide links for networking. Yeah, I make my professional self "out there" for people to get in touch with on here.

It is the use of the derogatory term “stalking” towards a person who’ve visited the links you put there yourself that I find peculiar, rather than the links.

Ah, I think that might just be an age or social-clique thing. At least among my friends, we've generalized "stalking" to just generally include seeking out someone's real-life identity via their online breadcrumbs, even when the "breadcrumbs" are signposts put down on purpose.

> NYC is open 24 hours a day.

The Vegas strip is open 24h. NYC isn't.

Vegas is a con. Went there and probably will never return.

Smoking, gambling and open liquor is about the extent of Vegas. It gets boring after a weekend there. Obviously if someone is dependent on any of the three it is the best place ever.

If you're like me who doesn't smoke, hate the smell, gambling is just $100 for entertainment value and drink beer while eating dinner it isn't the place to be at. This is generally what I hear fellow millennials once they visit.

I've spent a lot of time in Vegas and while it does get old it takes a lot longer than a weekend.

There's clubbing, lots of high end dining, shows galore, Red Rocks for hiking and climbing, each casino on the strip is a spectacle, old Vegas, shooting ranges, etc. Most of those things costs a fair bit of money but are well worth doing.

I don't disagree but that isn't what was being discussed.

Miami (FL) doesn't close. When I lived there not long ago, there was a period where I was between jobs where I came home after sunrise every day of the week. If you're trying to stay out past 2am in Miami and not able to, you're not trying... at all. Bars/clubs usually close at 5am, but I believe are only required to close for 1 hour a day, so there are afterhours spots.

Source: Native Miamian.

DC used to close at 6 pm. It was amazing.