Boundaries of MA's regions (Boston, Worcester: high school, shop, airports)

[CaseyB]

Originally Posted by massnative71

^The South Shore (really meaning shore south of Boston) is an area totally distinguished from the South Coast. The South Shore is basically the shore of Massachusetts Bay from Quincy to Plymouth, while the South Coast is the region from Seekonk to Wareham consisting of the Buzzards Bay and Narragansett Bay watersheds (and a small area in Westport which is totally on the Atlantic). Cape Cod is another totally separate area. SE Mass is generally Bristol and Plymouth counties, and does not usually include the Cape. The Cape and Islands kind of disown SE Mass in a similarmanner that the Berkshires do with the rest of W Mass (at least according to some on this forum).

Yes, I was going to mention this, although the "South Shore" and "South Coast" really sound like you are describing the same thing but it is really 2 entirely different areas.

[scorpio516]

Originally Posted by massnative71

^The South Shore (really meaning shore south of Boston) is an area totally distinguished from the South Coast. The South Shore is basically the shore of Massachusetts Bay from Quincy to Plymouth, while the South Coast is the region from Seekonk to Wareham consisting of the Buzzards Bay and Narragansett Bay watersheds (and a small area in Westport which is totally on the Atlantic). Cape Cod is another totally separate region. SE Mass is generally Bristol and Plymouth (excluding Hingham, Hull and a few of those towns that sort of jut out there) counties, and does not usually include the Cape. The Cape and Islands kind of disown SE Mass in a similar manner that the Berkshires do with the rest of W Mass (at least according to some on this forum).

The South Shore and SE Mass do overlap, although in most of those towns ie. Plymouth and Duxbury "South Shore" supercedes "SE Mass" as I guess it's a more prestigeous address. "SE Mass" tends to be more associated with the inland area of that region, and the South Coast which nobody wants any part of.

i.e. if they grow cranberries, they are SE Mass

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by western mass and love it

Well going by the area between 202 and 495 as Central Mass , that puts a huge area of the Springfield metro in Central Mass. Which we all know isn't true. Central Mass is Worcester County. Western Mass is Franklin , Hampshire and Hampden County. The Berkshire's while in the far western end of the state are not considered Western Mass. It is called the Berkshires, even when talking about the weather on the news the news anchor will differentiate the two areas. Really not that hard to grasp.

Really, anything west of the Blackstone River at the RI border is in the Western 1/2 of the state geographically.
Central Mass is between 495 (@ rt 113- rt 95) and the end of the commuter rail, Western Mass is beyond Commuter rail.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Really, anything west of the Blackstone River at the RI border is in the Western 1/2 of the state geographically.
Central Mass is between 495 (@ rt 113- rt 95) and the end of the commuter rail, Western Mass is beyond Commuter rail.

Well you are wrong (really).

[Cloudship]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Really, anything west of the Blackstone River at the RI border is in the Western 1/2 of the state geographically.
Central Mass is between 495 (@ rt 113- rt 95) and the end of the commuter rail, Western Mass is beyond Commuter rail.

Commuter rail only goes to Worcester. By that measure, Rutland, which is the geographical center of the state, would be in the western third.

Although from a perspective standpoint I get that is how a lot of people from the eastern part of the state see it. Interesting how transportation plays such a role in perceptions.

[in_newengland]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Really, anything west of the Blackstone River at the RI border is in the Western 1/2 of the state geographically.
Central Mass is between 495 (@ rt 113- rt 95) and the end of the commuter rail, Western Mass is beyond Commuter rail.

Yes, you are wrong. Coming from WMass, I don't even know what you're talking about.

Just as I wouldn't presume to ask someone from the eastern part of the state what something in their part of the state is called, people in the eastern part of the state shouldn't tell us what to call sections of our part of the state.

Technically, you would be correct if you are just going by what you see on a map, as in east vs west, but we're talking about the names of areas, not the geographical location on a map. To you, everything west of your area is western MA. To us, everything east of our area could be eastern MA--or, as we always used to call it, "Bawston." You could live in Sturbridge or Weston or Lynn or Fairhaven and to us, it would just be "Bawston." Out towards Bawston somewhere. See? It's sort of annoying being told. And this dispute over what is WMass is getting old.

[Tightlines]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

Well, actually what choice do they have? Call themselves Almost New York State or Nearly off The Edge?
I'll forgive them because their location is almost out of state but they still wuv us and want to be a part of our great state. Seems that almost everybody else gets to call themselves Something+MA. EMass, Central MA, WMass. They get stuck with the ambiguous "Berkshires" and in the summer when they get flooded with NYers, the poor things probably get their MA identity practically destroyed.

But to anyone else, no excuse to call The Berkshires WesternMA. Yes, they are located in the western section of the state but not in the area known as WMass.

This is quite zany. Anyone growing up in the Berkshires thought of the Berkshires as Western Mass. And, frankly the part of Western mass that dominated sports.

Within the Berkshires, the distinction was always Northern Berkshires and Southern Berkshires, with Pittsfield playing the city in the middle. Never new where to put it.

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by Cloudship

Commuter rail only goes to Worcester. By that measure, Rutland, which is the geographical center of the state, would be in the western third.

Although from a perspective standpoint I get that is how a lot of people from the eastern part of the state see it. Interesting how transportation plays such a role in perceptions.

Well the western towns in Worcester County are a lot more like Western Mass than the eastern 1/2 of Worcester County.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Well the western towns in Worcester County are a lot more like Western Mass than the eastern 1/2 of Worcester County.

Templeton is like Holyoke??

I don't get your point.

[thenewtexan]

Originally Posted by massnative71

Templeton is like Holyoke??

I don't get your point.

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