Having just this week returned from a trip to Boston, I’ll note that some bakeries and restaurants in the North End only take cash! And granted we were the areas along the Freedom Trail along with tons of tourists but I commented on the lack of people panhandling or living on the streets which hasn’t been my experience in other cities lately. I don’t know the reason but I’ll hope it’s because Boston offers resources to prevent that situation. I’ll also give it high marks for friendliness because when we couldn’t get our paper tickets to let us into the T station, a 20-something young woman stopped to help and then insisted on scanning us in with her pass.
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