I have different views.

1. The columnist calls Boston an "old fashioned town" in his conclusion. I don't buy it. Boston has tons of high tech, in genetics, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, technology. Boston is very liberal, the AIDS epidemic hit Boston at rates similar to rates in Los Angeles and Seattle. Boston has tons of experimenting college students.

2. On my previous sentence, I think Boston is a natural for movies for that simple reason: College students. Boston is the capital of the world for going to college and university, it has dozens of them (three medical schools in one town, for example), with a migrant student population of like half a million young arriving every autumn and leaving every spring. The millions (yes, millions) of Americans who studied in Boston, it is their natural substrate as writers and actors, and a natural draw as viewers.

Boston also has, interestingly, old architecture and a crisply bisected population, like 1/2 academics and 1/2 blue collar types.