<p>Really, how bad is it? </p>
<p>Really, not bad at all. Good, really. Assuming you have some tolerance for being in an urban environment with an economically and ethnically diverse population. Nobody will mistake it for Dartmouth or Williams; it’s much more interesting, more fun, dirtier, noisier than that.</p>
<p>There are a zillion threads on this topic in which I and others have written at great length and with tremendous specificity saying essentially that.</p>