Jon Lal faced that same decision when his family of four wanted to travel from Boston to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a summer vacation.

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Beyond Chicago and Detroit, the biggest losses among the mega-regions have taken place in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles-Long Beach and Boston.

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"He was a delightful man, " Nee said, who started out making doll clothes with mother, and ended dressing socialites in Boston, New York and Palm Beach.

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The Cup has traveled from the back of a duck boat in the streets of Boston to the greens of Pebble Beach, and from a sauna in Finland to a Slovakian castle.

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Karp, who owns New England Development, has inked his a deal to redevelop a West Palm Beach mall with fellow Boston firm Eastern Real Estate and the high-profile Philadelphia development firm Lubert-Adler.

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He sold a ski chalet in Utah and an expensive house outside Boston before the campaign got under way (that still leaves him with a beach-front property in California, a lake-front one in New Hampshire and a relatively modest terrace house near Boston).

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