Boston's full of Redsox fans. What did you expect?

Kidding aside, Boston's a great city. But every city has it's bad apples. Especially NY, I hope you have better luck here. Like I said, I don't know about the city shops but my local B&M has a great crowd and nice owners. I would suspect that the city B&M's might be a bit snobby, but that's Manhattan for you.