Washington or Boston

[Michael Echan]

My dad is huge in to trains, and also enjoys going to museums and the like. I was thinking about organizing a weekend where we'd take the train (the Acela on one way, just to say we were on it) to either of the above-mentioned cities, see the sights, have a nice dinner and catch a ballgame. Which would be a better value?

 

[imjustagirl]

For museums and history: Washington.

For drinking and actual enjoyment: Boston.

 

[Freelance Hack]

I'm as big a Boston guy who doesn't live there (anymore), but I think DC is the better value.

Hit up the Old Ebbitt Grill. Great filet for less than $20.

And it has museums out the ass.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Of course, it also depends on proximity.

But DC is a lot cheaper than Boston.

 

[BYH]

Go to Boston, see the Monster.

Go to Washington, see the Moddy.

Pretty much a push.

 

[Bubbler]

DC is unquestionably the better value.

 

[FileNotFound]

I'm as big a Boston guy who doesn't live there (anymore), but I think DC is the better value.

Hit up the Old Ebbitt Grill. Great filet for less than $20.

And it has museums out the ass.

I can testify to the Old Ebbitt Grill. I had the lobster, which was also less than $20, and it kicked ass.

For my money -- and it would be way less of it -- Washington, easily.

 

[StormSurge]

Go to Boston, see the Monster.

Go to Washington, see the Moddy.

Pretty much a push.

I'm hoping to surprise the g/f with a trip to DC for her birthday. I can ditch her there & hang out with the DCSportsJournalists.com crew!!!!

 

[joe]

I saw the Van Gogh exhibit on Veterans Day nine years ago in D.C. and then walked the Mall and saw the vets in each others arms around the Wall. The woman I was with and I also got propositioned about doing a little swinging at some dive bar later that night.

I jumped into the Green Monster a year earlier while on a Boston trip with a buddy. I thought I was going to hook up with a chick I met at a bar a block from Fenway.

I pick D.C.

And we declined, which is just as well because I got puking drunk that night.

 

[JackReacher]

For museums and history: Washington.

For drinking and actual enjoyment: Boston.

Uh....D.C. can be enjoyable. And you can drink there, too.

 

[imjustagirl]

For museums and history: Washington.

For drinking and actual enjoyment: Boston.

Uh....D.C. can be enjoyable. And you can drink there, too.

I've done drinking in both.

It was my opinion. If you want to add yours, feel free. Otherwise, stop being a douche.

 

[JackReacher]

For museums and history: Washington.

For drinking and actual enjoyment: Boston.

Uh....D.C. can be enjoyable. And you can drink there, too.

I've done drinking in both.

It was my opinion. If you want to add yours, feel free. Otherwise, stop being a douche.

Yes ma'am. Sorry if I offended. That was my opinion.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I think it's been implied above, but not explicitly stated — all the museums and monuments in DC are free.

Boston's a super town, though. And you can't beat Fenway if you had to pick one place to see a ball game.

 

[bostonbred]

I'm a little biased, having lived in the city for 15 years...but it's Boston unless you are big on history and government.

 

[buckweaver]

I'm a little biased, having lived in the city for 15 years...but it's Boston unless you are big on history and government.

UNLESS you are big on history and government?

Which Boston are you from? :o

 

[mike311gd]

Go to Boston, see the Monster.

Go to Washington, see the Moddy.

Pretty much a push.

I'm hoping to surprise the g/f with a trip to DC for her birthday. I can ditch her there & hang out with the DCSportsJournalists.com crew!!!!

Careful, Stormy. Those long weekends are relationship killers.

 

[mike311gd]

I'm a little biased, having lived in the city for 15 years...but it's Boston unless you are big on history and government.

UNLESS you are big on history and government?

Which Boston are you from? :o

Do they even have government there?

 

[buckweaver]

I'm a little biased, having lived in the city for 15 years...but it's Boston unless you are big on history and government.

UNLESS you are big on history and government?

Which Boston are you from? :o

Do they even have government there?

Yeah, but it's all pinko commies, I think.

Clearly, bostonbred has never walked the Freedom Trail. ::)

 

[Freelance Hack]

Boston is the birthplace of America. It's where the first English settlers arrived, and it's where the revolution started. If I could live forever in Boston, it wouldn't be enough time for me.

 

[wicked]

Clearly, bostonbred has never walked the Freedom Trail. ::)

Or been to the Constitution Museum. Or visited JFK Library ...

As a Boston native, my money would be on D.C., just because it's D.C. In addition to the Smithsonians, please make yourself walk down to Georgetown and enjoy some of the other neighborhoods.