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For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

Boston is known for its innovation.

New York is about success. Boston is about resentment.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.