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Yelp Boston's "Weekly Yelp" newsletter this morning promises restaurants "Beyond the City Limits" where diners can eat al fresco. We thought we might find a gem or two to highlight in our own Stuff to Eat in the Suburbs series, but alas. It turns out that Yelp's editors just don't have a map. Of the nine restaurants listed, only four of them are actually outside of Boston's city limits, in Cambridge and Salem. The other five are located in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Allston, and Dorchester: all parts of Boston last time we checked. Kids, don't go to journalism school; the people who write this drek are going to be your editors when all the newspapers are gone.
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I wonder if that map was put together by the person who once told me "no one actually lives in Southie."
I've always felt the "city limits" were defined more interpretively. I grew up in NH and sometimes said I was from Boston.
I'm in J-school currently, and I f-ing hope I get a job better than Yelp when I get out with a master's degree.
to be fair, i'm guessing yelp pays their editors (if they pay them at all) by the 1000s of pageviews, so they have a lot more incentive toward quantity and controversy than accuracy or usefulness. much like most of the internet.
also, we have been renamed BONSTANIST:
http://www.yelp.com/topic/boston-so-who-here-has-a-map
what, YLEP and lee anne? what?!
I really want to know what this woman's definition of "Boston proper" is, because I have lived in the city for (holy crap) thirteen years now, and I have never heard that term used before.