Diversity in South Shore MA - LGBT?

[BostonBornMassMade]

We need more terms for southeastern Massachusetts than just south shore, cape, and south coast. It’s a way larger area than the north shore.

[redplum33]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_...(Massachusetts)



By its most literal definition, the South Shore includes only cities and towns between Boston and Cape Cod that physically border the Atlantic Ocean, thereby limiting the South Shore to the following:

Braintree
Cohasset
Duxbury
Hingham
Hull
Kingston
Marshfield
Plymouth
Quincy
Scituate
Weymouth

The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management limits its definition of the South Shore to the municipalities between Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, which includes Atlantic coastal and coastal watershed areas "from the three-mile (5 km) limit of the state territorial sea to 100 feet (30 m) beyond the first major land transportation route encountered (a road, highway, rail line, etc.)".[4] This definition eliminates Braintree, Quincy and Weymouth, which border Boston Harbor, but adds the towns of Hanover, Norwell and Pembroke.[5]

Cohasset
Duxbury
Hanover
Hingham
Hull
Kingston
Marshfield
Norwell
Pembroke
Plymouth
Scituate

In the official sense of the South Shore, however, some of these coastal communities are either members of the Boston-centered Inner Core Committee of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)[6] or not part of the metropolitan area at all, while the South Shore Coalition of the MAPC comprises representatives from 14 coastal and inland communities[7] and includes the following cities and towns:

Braintree
Cohasset
Duxbury
Hanover
Hingham
Holbrook
Hull
Marshfield
Norwell
Pembroke
Rockland
Scituate
Weymouth
Quincy

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

The Trump towns are:
Hanover, Hanson, Whitman, East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Pembroke, Raynham, Bridgewater, Halifax, Kingston, Plympton, Carver, Middleboro, Lakeville. Boston Irish white flight towns.

Then maybe try for one of those diverse Hillary towns like Cohassett.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_...(Massachusetts)



By its most literal definition, the South Shore includes only cities and towns between Boston and Cape Cod that physically border the Atlantic Ocean, thereby limiting the South Shore to the following:

Braintree
Cohasset
Duxbury
Hingham
Hull
Kingston
Marshfield
Plymouth
Quincy
Scituate
Weymouth

The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management limits its definition of the South Shore to the municipalities between Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, which includes Atlantic coastal and coastal watershed areas "from the three-mile (5 km) limit of the state territorial sea to 100 feet (30 m) beyond the first major land transportation route encountered (a road, highway, rail line, etc.)".[4] This definition eliminates Braintree, Quincy and Weymouth, which border Boston Harbor, but adds the towns of Hanover, Norwell and Pembroke.[5]

Cohasset
Duxbury
Hanover
Hingham
Hull
Kingston
Marshfield
Norwell
Pembroke
Plymouth
Scituate

In the official sense of the South Shore, however, some of these coastal communities are either members of the Boston-centered Inner Core Committee of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)[6] or not part of the metropolitan area at all, while the South Shore Coalition of the MAPC comprises representatives from 14 coastal and inland communities[7] and includes the following cities and towns:

Braintree
Cohasset
Duxbury
Hanover
Hingham
Holbrook
Hull
Marshfield
Norwell
Pembroke
Rockland
Scituate
Weymouth
Quincy

So what do we call places like Walpole Dedham Randolph Wrentham Raynham Milton Taunton etc. way too much that is just glazed over. And the lack of an identifiable might even be deflating RE values because people can’t look in/ask about certain areas easily.

[mdovell]

At the mbta Braintree commutters rail station there's a sign saying "South shoe trains" for that reason alone I would not call Braintree the south shore

Unless it faces the coast of has some river that flows to or from it then its a hard argument.

Years ago I was a member of the South Shore Coalition.

[Beachcomber4]

Originally Posted by mdovell

At the mbta Braintree commutters rail station there's a sign saying "South shoe trains" for that reason alone I would not call Braintree the south shore

Unless it faces the coast of has some river that flows to or from it then its a hard argument.

Years ago I was a member of the South Shore Coalition.

Watson Park in Braintree is on the banks of the Fore River.

[johngolf]

It seems that anything north or south of Boston that touches or is east of I95, is considered shore towns even if they do not touch the ocean. This applies to North and South Shore.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by johngolf

It seems that anything north or south of Boston that touches or is east of I95, is considered shore towns even if they do not touch the ocean. This applies to North and South Shore.

The North Shore yes, South Shore...do you mean Rte. 3? I personally consider Quincy and Braintree the S Shore, and also throw in towns like Abington, Rockland, Hanson, Pembroke to the list.

[mdovell]

My father grew up in Braintree and I have family in Quincy. None call either one the south shore. Is the focal point of the town on water or land?

[skeddy]

any town east of Route 3 below Braintree.