How Would YOU Define the Distinct Areas of Massachusetts? (move, beaches)

[GeoffD]

I guess I really should put this up in the thread

[CaseyB]

I was waiting for that!

[Japanfan1986]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

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Is Leafy, Liberal, and Loaded just Middlesex County? It kind of looks like it overlaps it. Although there are plenty parts of Middlesex loaded doesn’t really apply to unless you’re referring to the folks being drunk.

[FCMA]

Originally Posted by mdovell

It was kinda a big thing back in the day. Back then phone numbers really did mean a location. Then there were splits and then the big push to make phone numbers permanent on cell phones. Changing phone numbers back in the day was a pain. New business cards, new truck lettering and trying to let people know before social media and the internet.

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/arti...news/307279963

Remember when 617 and 413 were the only phone area codes? A dilapidated building down the block from me in Orange has a faded phone number on it that’s a monument to when 617 stretched from P-Town to the Quabbin. i.e. Gaycationland to the far, far corners of There be Dragons Here.

[CinderFella7]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

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Lol, I love the map!!

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

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Love the map! :-)

[OutdoorLover]

Where Metropolitan Boston stops is a matter of debate. To me it's in large part a matter of the physical environment and how it feels. For example on the North Shore, once I get past Beverly, it's less dense, there's more greenspace, more wildlife, you start seeing some farms, the water is getting cleaner, it's a little more laid back, and it just *feels* different to me than the region below that Beverly line, which feels very city-like to me.

[in_newengland]

Originally Posted by OutdoorLover

Where Metropolitan Boston stops is a matter of debate. To me it's in large part a matter of the physical environment and how it feels. For example on the North Shore, once I get past Beverly, it's less dense, there's more greenspace, more wildlife, you start seeing some farms, the water is getting cleaner, it's a little more laid back, and it just *feels* different to me than the region below that Beverly line, which feels very city-like to me.

I know what you mean. Beverly is the first city you come to going south toward Boston. I've been away for a few years now so I can't remember the number of that busy traffic ridden east-west road that had the North Shore Mall on it but that was sort of a dividing line too. Danvers was around there somewhere, and Peabody. That's pretty urban around there but once you headed north, you got into "normal" territory--towns with houses and trees and some open space. It became more residential and less business.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

I know what you mean. Beverly is the first city you come to going south toward Boston. I've been away for a few years now so I can't remember the number of that busy traffic ridden east-west road that had the North Shore Mall on it but that was sort of a dividing line too. Danvers was around there somewhere, and Peabody. That's pretty urban around there but once you headed north, you got into "normal" territory--towns with houses and trees and some open space. It became more residential and less business.

Yep, much of Peabody and Danvers is still pretty dense, even if it's dense with strip shopping, big box stores and malls.

Hamilton, Wenham, Manchester, Gloucester, Rockport, Topsfield, Georgetown, Ipswich, Essex, Rowley, Newbury, Newburyport, West Newbury, Amesbury, Merrimac, Salisbury - that's the part that I like. Might as well be in a different state.

I am not called "OutdoorLover" for nothing, and though many of the towns to the south have some pretty buildings, what I call "outdoors" is just islands of green in a sea of brick, asphalt and concrete to the south. Whereas in the above towns, the situation is reversed, and you've got islands of hardscaping in a sea of trees, farms, salt marshes and beaches. That is my kind of place.

[Taffee72]

Maybe my next move will be to the "Hippie Farmers" area.