Boston is one of the best cities in the world with some of the most incredible people and the best culture. With that said, not every city is made for the Olympic games. Boston for example; it is recently ranked as the 34rd best city to live in, in the world according to TheGuardian.com (theguardian). Though a great city, Boston is not a good city to host an event such as the Olympics. With Boston’s uniquely difficult navigation and asymmetrical lay-out, Boston would not be able to handle the influx of people, nor build the stadiums necessary to have a successful summer games. The Massachusetts capital city would not benefit from being the United States nominee for the 2024 Summer Olympics because of the event’s economic power such as, stadium
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For others it may be New York, or Chicago but for me, I liked to be by 617. I haven’t always loved the trek from a little town in Maine to the big city of Boston because I was scared of all the people. Can you imagine if the city suddenly got millions more? As I grew up and got more comfortable in the city, I began to better understand the way the city works. People stay out later, pay more for living, drive like maniacs, and when the hometown Sox play; the city shuts down. I have always loved this about the city because the passion of the fan-base radiates. With that said, if the city shuts down at least 81 times a year for a single local baseball team, I don’t want to imagine the city during the two weeks of the Olympics. The streets would be impassable; the lines in front of shops, restaurants, and local businesses would be unbearable; and the city transportation would be overloaded at all hours of day and night. The city would go to hell in a hand basket very …show more content…
For example, there are many economical factors the go into hosting the games. According to the New York Times, Binyamin Appelbaum, the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympic games, Rio de Janeiro, is spending an astronomically high $25 billion to get ready for the incoming games (Appelbaum). An amount that large would be hard for the country to pull off given the present debt, let alone one city putting forth a large sum by itself. Hotels would have to be built and operated at an extraordinary rate to handle the influx of people and would be left destitute at the end of the two weeks. The sudden boom for many businesses would suffer lasting busts once the games are over and the fanatic countryman go
For others it may be New York, or Chicago but for me, I liked to be by 617. I haven’t always loved the trek from a little town in Maine to the big city of Boston because I was scared of all the people. Can you imagine if the city suddenly got millions more? As I grew up and got more comfortable in the city, I began to better understand the way the city works. People stay out later, pay more for living, drive like maniacs, and when the hometown Sox play; the city shuts down. I have always loved this about the city because the passion of the fan-base radiates. With that said, if the city shuts down at least 81 times a year for a single local baseball team, I don’t want to imagine the city during the two weeks of the Olympics. The streets would be impassable; the lines in front of shops, restaurants, and local businesses would be unbearable; and the city transportation would be overloaded at all hours of day and night. The city would go to hell in a hand basket very …show more content…
For example, there are many economical factors the go into hosting the games. According to the New York Times, Binyamin Appelbaum, the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympic games, Rio de Janeiro, is spending an astronomically high $25 billion to get ready for the incoming games (Appelbaum). An amount that large would be hard for the country to pull off given the present debt, let alone one city putting forth a large sum by itself. Hotels would have to be built and operated at an extraordinary rate to handle the influx of people and would be left destitute at the end of the two weeks. The sudden boom for many businesses would suffer lasting busts once the games are over and the fanatic countryman go