Public Service Announcement

[pezzonovante]

 To those who post on Western Mass Craigslist:

The following places are not part of Western Massachusetts:

• Gloucester
• Wellesley
• Sturbridge
• Shrewsbury
• Boxboro

Comments

[bronzite]

I don't post to Craigslist, but Sturbridge is pretty Western Mass.

[petercooperjr]

I have to agree that Sturbridge is close. I certainly still think of it as being in Central MA, and it is still in Worcester County, but if I were in Western MA I might be interested in something from Sturbridge.

[taranhero]

Sturbridge I can easily see people confusing, as while it's not 413, it's still in that west-of-Worcester zone that starts to get hazy. The others are funny, but I know that Shrewsbury falls under the Episcopal Diocese of Western Mass -- I imagine that it's population driven, so the east-west line they use falls somewhere between Westboro and Framingham.

Fine

[maverick_weirdo]

Of course Providence, RI isn't in Western Massachusetts, it's on The Cape.

Hartford, Conn. is in Western Massachusetts though (and New Haven, Conn. is Eastern New York)

Re: Fine

[verrucaria]

To be fair, the Springfield (MA) area generally has more of an affinity with Hartford than with Boston.

And lots of people commute from the New Haven area to NYC to work--which seems crazy to be, but they do it every day. When you have a city as big as NYC, it's going to "engulf" the surrounding areas regardless of state boundaries.

[mariaklob]

Addendum, any location in New Hampshire should not be posted in Boston.

[bronzite]

If you're going to use our city name on your airport, we're going to pretend you're part of our state.

[mariaklob]

That was a terrible horrible idea, and it also doesn't make picking crap up from Hooksett "local" for Boston residents.

[verrucaria]

When I was passing through Nashua, I was amused to discover that they don't even bother to write Boston, MA on their highway signs. It's just Boston. Because so many people commute from southern NH to work in MA.

(Hooksett strikes me as being still pretty far south for NH. Many people in Boston don't have cars, so it's completely off limits to them, but otherwise Hooksett doesn't seem that bad...)

[bonisagus]

Sturbridge is on the cusp but otherwise, thank god for that.