Comrade-SeeRed
Comrade-SeeRed t1_iuarbt2 wrote
Reply to comment by Past-Adhesiveness150 in Just in case any resident of the four most western countries had ANY doubt of their position in the minds of the rest of the state... "Western Mass.. I don't even understand as a concept," says one Bay Stater. by Emergency_Address_51
Is it pronounced like Bow-stone or Boss-ton? Didn’t something famous happen there once?
Just kidding, of course. I’m just mocking the obliviousness of some of the Bostonian respondents.
I grew up in Miami, FL and we would say the same thing if you asked us about Orlando, Tallahasee or Jacksonville but those at their closest are a 4 hours drive away. Western MA is less than an hour and a half, two hours at most. That’s like driving from Miami to West Palm Beach. Driving to Jacksonville from Miami is the equivalent of driving to Canada from Boston.
Comrade-SeeRed t1_iu9p7zf wrote
Reply to Just in case any resident of the four most western countries had ANY doubt of their position in the minds of the rest of the state... "Western Mass.. I don't even understand as a concept," says one Bay Stater. by Emergency_Address_51
Is there an Eastern Massachusetts? I’ve heard of this fabled city called Boosetown, where the streets are all one-ways and people say, “youse” but I’m convinced it’s a myth.
Comrade-SeeRed t1_iuarmbx wrote
Reply to comment by Past-Adhesiveness150 in Just in case any resident of the four most western countries had ANY doubt of their position in the minds of the rest of the state... "Western Mass.. I don't even understand as a concept," says one Bay Stater. by Emergency_Address_51
When you tell your out-of-state friends you’re from western MA, they ask, how close is that to Boston?