My random post of the day

[drloretta]

I've been musing over how long it will take me to get to *know* Boston/MA. I think because I lived in the city of Baltimore for a while, I felt like I knew the place like the back of my hand. Moved to PA and commuted to NJ, and I knew how to get to work and back. If anyone told me they were from any other part of NJ, I did this

Now I keep running into people who are all, "I'm from [insert Boston suburb here]" and I have no clue where that is in relation to me. I blame it on GPS, because I don't even need a map to find things any more.

I think it's time for me to just take some road trips and get it all sorted in my head.

[fuddyduddy]

I can relate. My spatial awareness is sorely lacking. I, too, blame the GPS, although I can't bring myself to part with it.

[hellzkitten]

I can find almost anything in Boston proper... anything outside the city (besides South Shore, which is where I grew up), I need GPS

[drloretta]

Jan 29, 2013 16:10:05 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Um...two confessions from me in one day...I've lived here for more than 25 years collectively and I still don't know where a lot of towns are. It kind of boggles the mind how many towns such a small state has.

LOL, I'm convinced the only people who know where all the little towns are would be those who live in TX and PA.

[preppy]

I have only lived here since November but I have no fucking clue where anything is. I can find where the town I am living in on a map, where the mall is, and watertown where my office is.

I do know my way around downtown driving though since I went to school in Boston and was a nanny in college and drove the kids around all day. That does not help me out in the burbs at all.

[liveintheville]

I'm a OMG 20 years?! resident. And I only know Boston, Brookline Village, Cambridge, and Somerville. The only places I've lived in state. I can get to Waltham where I used to work. And although I went to BU I was one of the few who never lived in the student slums and my knowledge of Allston is lacking. However I am familiar with crack houses near Northeastern and methadone clinics in Kenmore.

[drloretta]

Jan 29, 2013 18:14:51 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

However I am familiar with crack houses near Northeastern and methadone clinics in Kenmore.

Um, good to know???

[vtdiamond]

Jan 29, 2013 18:14:51 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

I'm a OMG 20 years?! resident. And I only know Boston, Brookline Village, Cambridge, and Somerville. The only places I've lived in state. I can get to Waltham where I used to work. And although I went to BU I was one of the few who never lived in the student slums and my knowledge of Allston is lacking. However I am familiar with crack houses near Northeastern and methadone clinics in Kenmore.

I work in Kenmore it's not that bad. I feel like the neighborhood is up an coming. We just got a Marshall's, yard house, a new hotel being built and rumor is a new target going in on boylston.

[liveintheville]

Jan 30, 2013 7:26:11 GMT -5 vtdiamond said:

Jan 29, 2013 18:14:51 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

I'm a OMG 20 years?! resident. And I only know Boston, Brookline Village, Cambridge, and Somerville. The only places I've lived in state. I can get to Waltham where I used to work. And although I went to BU I was one of the few who never lived in the student slums and my knowledge of Allston is lacking. However I am familiar with crack houses near Northeastern and methadone clinics in Kenmore.

I work in Kenmore it's not that bad. I feel like the neighborhood is up an coming. We just got a Marshall's, yard house, a new hotel being built and rumor is a new target going in on boylston.

Oh yeah. Kenmore and the Symphony area are totally glammed up these days. I was there in the mid 90's. I do miss seedy Kenmore Sq. My apartment building is now luxury condos. There was no Hotel Commonwealth and the Ratskeller was in business.

[pinkroses]

I learned where towns are in MA two ways: house hunting, and joy riding in high school.  Ahh, the days of gas for 99 cents/gallon and no other bills to pay.  My friends and I would pick a town on the map and say "I've never been here!  Let's go see what it looks like!"

[mrsbro]

Jan 29, 2013 16:20:13 GMT -5 hellzkitten said:

I can find almost anything in Boston proper... anything outside the city (besides South Shore, which is where I grew up), I need GPS

Yes - I have family in Dorchester, lived in lower mills for a bit, grew up and am back in the South Shore. North Shore and Western Mass I'm like wah? Is that in Mass