John Butler Yeats (father of the famous Irish poet) was living in Boston in the US in the closing years of the 19th century, and he was unimpressed:

“The Bostonians hate England intensely. That is the only interesting thing about them. I am told by everyone that it is terrible to live in Boston, it is so infernally dull. I suppose they have a good side, but I have not as yet discovered it”.