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Old 12-04-2010, 01:56 PM
 
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How did "Metro West" take all of Worcester's best suburbs and leave Central Mass with whatever was left? Growing up, Shrewsbury, Westborough and Northborough were always most definitely Worcester suburbs. Now I am not so sure.

I know in Northborough and Westborough you can go to the web sites of many businesses and they definitely align themselves with the Metro West region. Many in Shrewsbury too. Metro West of course seems to end at Lake Quinsigamond. This was proven when there was talk about renaming Worcester Airport "Metro West Regional" and the Metro West Daily News objected in a very pronounced manner.

So what towns share the Metro West and Central Mass designation? Or I guess what I am asking is what towns that call themselves "Metro West" are just suburbs of Worcester trying real hard to hang out with the cool kids and leave their ugly, fat, uncool, old friend Worcester behind?
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Old 12-05-2010, 06:01 AM
 
Location: North of Boston
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I grew up in Westborough in the 70s and 80s, the term "Metro West" had not been coined yet. I'm not sure when the expression started being used, it must have been in the 90s. Framingham in particular seems to have embraced the term.

I would say Metro West ends at Westborough or about 30 miles west of Boston. Including Shrewsbury or Worcester seems like a stretch to me.
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Old 12-05-2010, 12:37 PM
 
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I grew up in metrowest Sudbury and Framingham (70s/80s) and we used the term metrowest way, way, way back then.... In fact, when people asked where I was from, I might have just answered metrowest. I always thought of that area as suburbs west of Boston from 128 to 495 - excluding Westborough.
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Old 12-05-2010, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Quiet Corner Connecticut
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I've always considered Metrowest as towns inside 495, or where 495 runs through.

Westboro would be borderline. Northboro and Shrewsbury more Worcester suburbs, but can lean Metrowest too.
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Old 12-05-2010, 03:40 PM
 
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I always considered metro west being inside of 128. The borough towns to me were always Central Mass, but I guess when you can jump on the pike fairly easily they consider it closer to Boston.
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Old 12-06-2010, 09:25 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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It stretched out to the boroughs because over time, people moved out there because it was cheaper than Greater Boston. As people move further west, it isn't as disassociated as it once was.
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Old 12-06-2010, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Springfield and brookline MA
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talking about people moving west, on my street alone i know of 6 people who commute from West Springfield to Boston on a daily basis. I am not so sure that the 25k-30k i save on a home would be worth the hour and change commute every day.
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Old 12-09-2010, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Milwaukee, WI.
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How did "Metro West" take all of Worcester's best suburbs and leave Central Mass with whatever was left?
Real simple; Worcester has finally begun to accept that it is a big Boston suburb, seeing how it could never really develop an autonomous city identity like Manchester or Providence(e.g. functioning passenger airport, it's own media sources). As a result all of the surrounding towns, specifically those east of Worcester are now seen as "Metro West"
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