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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4228411" data-attributes="member: 177">I don't think it is possible to get a "feel for the real pulse of life" of a place in the amount of time you've alloted, or even with the method you have (a vacation).  The pulse of a place is about so many things you don't see on vacation - workday commutes, schools, PTA meetings and seeing friends on the weekends...Boston, like most cities, isn't really a single place, with a single pulse of life.  It is an extended area - there are neighborhoods, urban areas and suburbs each with their own flavor and character.  Brookline isn't like Malden.  Cambridge isn't like Newton.  And none of those places is like Stoneham...I love living in Boston, but trying to get the feel of it in a couple days like that is akin to trying to get the feel for a paperback by reading the blurb on the back cover.</blockquote>