Damn. I would've got off the Silver Line & walked to South Station. Basically, put up a big enough fuss that the driver would let me off, even if not near an actual T stop.

Andrea Campbell faced off against Michelle Wu, literally the worst matchup.

Wu worked for Warren's 2012 senate race, heading up Warren's outreach group to get votes from the black, LGBT & women communities, particularly in Boston.

Thus, Wu had a strong black outreach a full 3 years before Campbell even ran for city council.

If you wonder why the Boston black community voted overwhelmingly for Wu over Campbell & Janey, it's because Wu has done a lot more outreach with the black community than either Campbell or Janey, for a longer period of time, as Wu started her black outreach campaigning a full 3 years before Campbell ran for city council, a full 5 years before Janey ran for city council & Wu started her outreach under Warren's hugely funded first senate race.

So when Wu ran for mayor, she already had 9 years of black outreach, a larger ground team & had the support of Senator Warren's team too.

You're complaining that there was a mere 14,761 vote difference between Wu & Campbell, but fail to state that Wu had 36,060 votes vs Campbell's 21,299 votes, meaning that Wu had a 69% lead over Campbell. Campbell needed to almost double her votes in order to match Wu. A 14,761 vote lead wasn't a small lead - in the Boston mayor race, it was an enormous lead.

Did you even read the article? It was all about Andrea Campbell failing to get enough black voters to win mayor of Boston.

Are we even talking about the same Andrea Campbell?

You know, the Andrea Campbell who became the 45th Attorney General of Massachusetts just a year later?

Looks like she realized she fucked up the Boston election, got her shit together & put in a much better campaign for state AG.

That whole article was about the most stupid piece of reporting I've ever seen. That white male reporter obviously had his own agenda to write about & even then, he, like you, seems to not pay attention to the fact that Campbell used lessons from her defeat to win the race for state AG.

Plus mayor Wu's the first female mayor of Boston & the first non-white mayor of Boston. Wu already broke stereotypes & shows that Boston's willing to elect someone who's not a white male as mayor.

Quincy market's a tourist trap, but I suppose it's an iconic, historical tourist trap. If you want a much better food hall, go to High Street Place, probably the best food hall in metro Boston right now - all the café's there serves great food, beer & wine, as each café specializes & can serve their own alcohol.

Additionally, she'll love the Boston Public Library, when entered from the eastern Trinity Church entrance, as the eastern half might as well be a museum & movie set with its own internal courtyard. Plus it's right next to the Prudential Center & Copley Place malls.

Live ½-¾ mile from a T stop & take the T to work. Not near a commuter rail, but near a Red, Blue, Green, or Orange line T stop.

That's far enough from the T to find a rental with available street parking, but near enough to ride the T to work, rather than driving to work.

That should open up your rental search to less expensive places than downtown Boston.

I suggest Montréal, in the heart of downtown. Should be a 4 hour drive from southern NH & Montréal (all of Québec actually) feels very different from Boston. The accents, the French signs, the stores, etc, it will feel like a real vacation, due to all the differences. Plus Montréal is cheap, compared to Boston, because of the current exchange rates.

I've stayed at Bons Matins, about 2 blocks from Saint-Catherine St (similar to Boylston or Newbury), ½ block from a metro stop, on the line that takes you to the historical district & they serve a fantastic breakfast.