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Jon Keller flunks geography
By adamg on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 10:20am
Keller tries to make a point about western Massachusetts, but fails miserably because he has no clue where western Massachusetts starts. Lance lends him a clue: It's not Leominster or Fitchburg.
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How are those towns not
How are those towns not Western Mass.? Aren't they west of 128?
Indeed
I thought Western Mass started at Newton...
:-)
Is that how you pronounce ...
... that next town beyond Waltham on Route 20?
Wil-bra-ham
(o:
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
Western Mass
...is between 128 and 495. Anything from 495 to Amherst is technically part of Wyoming, and we have not yet technically confirmed the existence of anything west of Springfield.
I got a giggle from this
I got a giggle from this comment, remembering the time I told my Pennsylvanian inlaws that I believed the mid-west started once you passed the Natick Mall ;)
You can go to Indiana and California
without ever leaving Pennsylvania.
And many midwestern states have a Nevada
(That's nuh-VAY-da, just sos you fancy worldly types know.)
wyoming
is in rhode island silly.
How is 70 respondants too
How is 70 respondants too small a sample? I think a majority of residents is more than enough for a survey
If you take a map of MA and
If you take a map of MA and bisect it vertically, Fitchburg and Worcester are both in the western half.
That would make them Central MA
n/t
So is central mass code for
So is central mass code for western mass?
NOKD
Central Mass is code for everything west of Newton. Western Mass is code for Not Our Kind, Dear.
-Ms. Cynical
"the country"
My kids have learned that anything outside of 128 is "the country". Doesn't matter if it's technically western Mass. or whatever.
They used to sell posters
They used to sell posters with a Bostonian's view of the country - a big Boston in the foreground, and then basically nothing west of Cambridge until you got to the west coast.
the map center at the BPL
has always amused me with this map.
i like that they make a point to mention that this is "not drawn to scale".
I never saw that one before
I never saw that one before - same idea as above.
It's obviously wrong
How can you draw the Caribbean without Aruber? And what are all those other strange places doing down there?
You don't know what you're missing
Western Mass is filled with hard working people who struggle every day to make a decent living. They find ways to survive without having large cities to earn their money in and then run home to their McMansions within minutes of 128.
Believe me, Deval's mansion out there is the exception, not the rule. Everyone thinks that Western Mass is a big joke, but if you took a poll around those bedroom communities around 128, you would find thousands of people who are originally from Western Mass, which by the way is west of Springfield.
There are plenty of
There are plenty of McMansions like Deval's in western Mass. We don't hear about them because they're owned by New Yorkers. When he's through slumming on Beacon Hill, I suspect Deval and family will be spending more time in Manhattan than Boston.
Is this like everything
Is this like everything inside of 128 is "Boston"?
Really got a kick out of that in college, "I'm from Boston" ... No you're not, Needham isn't Boston you dolt.