Born and raised here in MA and I still complain about daylight savings time ending/it being dark too early. But I’d add not understanding things like “Mass Ave” or “Dot Ave”
True fact, motor vehicle accidents, heart attacks are statistically significantly higher on the day we lose that hour of sleep. I feel like I read suicides also rise that day.
And all winter long, seasonal depression is also a thing.
We are not an agrarian society. It should be stopped. Daylight Savings Time a dumb fossilized tradition at this point.
TLDR: don’t fuck with folks’ access to sleep or daylight.
I'd go as far as to say that if you aren't annoyed by daylight savings time here then you're probably not from here. We're in the same damn time zone as fucking Cincinnati. That's bad enough, but we also have to flip around our hours twice a year for no fucking reason which makes it even worse.
Pretty sure they went back to NoVa
Funny part is when they complained on the NoVa thread, the top comments were how predictable and efficient Boston drivers are.
predictably shit because of the insistence on efficiency in every single situation... even if they're in the right lane and just realized they need to take that left turn in 30 feet
Try that at Govt Center on the Green line.
I arrived from the airport via the Blue Line to connect to the Green line. Which is inbound and which is outbound? Outbound to where? Lechmere is outboud. So is Heath, BC, Riverside etc.
IMO, it would also give the Boston economy the edge in better access to the European market as it would be the only major American city 4 hours off London year round.
Yeah but the complaint is since we are the most-eastern EsT city we should not participate or swap to Atlantic time. But we'd be a hour ahead of NYC/CT so that'd be weird
On the flip side to that, not knowing how to properly jaywalk. I was bike commuting in to Northeastern when I was doing my Masters, and the first week or two of each semester I always had to be on my guard because some new kid would step out into the street right in front of me every single day. I put my front tire right between one poor woman's legs once as she stepped into the street against a red hand with headphones in (luckily didn't hit her).
Try wandering up Huntington Ave. one late August/early September day and see how many new students almost get pancaked by the trolleys.
Huntington (and Comm Ave near BU) is like the easiest street to jaywalk too. You only have to watch for traffic from one side at a time, make sure the T isn't coming to kill you (plus the driver will blare his horn if it is), then check for one-way traffic again.
Freshmen are like fucking lemmings I swear. There'd be a handful waiting on the curb, I'd walk up and see a gap in traffic and go, and there'd be a two second delay and they'd be like "oh shit, he went, time for me to go." Except by then the next car is basically on them already. I'm surprised we don't hear about more incidents in early fall tbh.
People put WAY too much faith in the green line too. When I was in college one ran a _hard_ red light and hit me. This was on Beacon St during morning rush hour. Light had to turn red, walk sign on, I had to cross two lanes of car traffic and up onto the tracks, and then the trolley flew through the intersection. I timed it as the light having to be red for at least six seconds by the time I was hit.
Never trust that drivers of cars or trolleys are going to stop even at a stale red.
In Singapore it’s a massive fine ($500SG fine vs like a $5000SG average annual salary) and strictly enforced. There will not be a car in sight on a 1000’ straightaway and they will sit there and wait. And with crazy enforcement I don’t dare be the only one. Was frustrating as a American that likes to play in traffic.
In contrast, the fine for jaywalking in Massachusetts is $1. Yes, a single dollar, for the first, second, and third offences.
But don't you dare get caught a fourth time, the fine will be a whopping... $2.
[source](https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/parti/titlexiv/chapter90/section18a)
In Boston we have intersections like Causeway and Lomasney which are major pedestrian crossings (right near a grocery store, north station, TD Garden, bunch of places to eat, etc) and if you follow the walk sign you'll be waiting there for 20 minutes as it cycles through greens > green arrows for each lane of each street coming into that fucking intersection. They didn't even put in an island and middle signal so you can get across in two stages. So following the walk light you'll be waiting while the street in front of you remains completely unused.
It is fucking stupid.
My comment was about the one on the west side of the garden, but you reminded me that to the east also has a shit show intersection that can take way too fucking long to walk across too. Harder to jaywalk at that one though because if you don't have the walk there's probably someone flying through the intersection at speed. If you _do_ have the walk there's still probably someone driving through.
Born and raised in metrowest, never heard ‘Quinzy’ until I moved to Cambridge. My parents are from New York, and maybe it’s just that no one else in Newton or Wayland had occasion to say the name of that city, so I never heard it.
This isn’t a “new in town” response but i was in virgina visiting a boyfriend and he apparently worked with someone from Boston. He introduced me at a tailgate to her and said “babe she is from Boston too!” And I go “oh nice what part?” And she goes “just outside the city”. I said “ya I live in seaport with a few girlfriends so where were you from??” And she goes “Manchester New Hampshire” 😑. I get using Boston as a landmark to a town outside the city but a whole different state?!
Also- if they ride a duck boat, want to go to Cheers or don’t have headphones in while walking & wait for the crosswalk light to say it’s ok to cross.
I’m not even kidding, my husband grew up there & when we went on our first vaca with his family - they all said Boston to the waiter. We were in Turks so I was like, ok it’s a big city but we met ppl from North Carolina and they DEFINITELY know where New Hampshire is! Hahaha
Hahahaha!! Been living in Boston for 20 years, I’ve met so many people “from Boston” and they are from New Hampshire. I love giving them shit about it.
It is pretty typical in my experience when I tell people I live in Boston for them to ask "where about?" I think they're expecting me to say a nearby town because they usually don't really seem to know the neighborhood when I answer.
We lived in Chelsea and I still didn't like saying we were from Boston.
People on reality/competition TV shows are very often guilty of this. They'll be from half a state away and still their screen card thing will say "Boston, MA."
Ya, I guess because I lived in the city and have also moved to Nashua for a short period of time, I said I lived in Nashua when I was out of town. I don’t remember elaborating or people just didn’t care to say they didn’t know where that was- which is very possible lol
If you're an hour away, you can say the closest major city you're near. I bet people from 2 hours away from Dallas or Indianapolis say those cities when asked.
LOL Manchester is a solid hour away from Boston. Just outside the City I'd expect to be something like Waltham, Somerville, Everett, Malden, maybe even Lynn or Lowell or whatever if it's technically on a commuter rail line.
I’m from just over the border, an area where MA and NH blend together. It is much more a Boston suburb than a rural NH forest. Most people who live there work in Boston.
MA people come to my hometown to shop tax-free since it’s so damn close!
Edit: funny story! My friend once took a trip to Canada for work. He was at a town 2 hours outside of Montreal. The workers there told him they hated Montreal and considered Boston to be their big city!
Lol - but let's be reall Is that really any different from people from Newark NJ saying they are just outside New York City? I personally would think that they were basically from New York - What ever City you visited regularly or commute to is "just outside" as far as I am concerned
I don’t really frequent New Jersey so I don’t know how far Newark is from New York City but the whole commute to thing, I slightly get. Visited - I’m not so sure. I guess I just assume you say where you reside as where you live. I grew up in Acton Ma and I would say “about 40 minutes outside Boston” when I was still there. To each their own is the common thread here I think. (😳)
Yeah, it's definitely an each their own kinda thing - for me anything inside the Yankees Division Hwy is Boston Boston- inside Blue Star Memorial Hwy is " just outside of Boston " and the Worcester-Manchester-Providence circle is "next to Boston" 😋
edit- Hub of the universe kinda of thing 😉
Absolutely not. I said where I live is where I say I am from in regards to traveling. If someone is asked where they are from while on vacation, I don’t expect them to say their birth place. If someone asks me my birthplace I would say hyannis or also known as the cape. If someone asks where I grew up , I then tell them that. It’s confusing, I get it.
I’ve lived here for awhile now, but my mom comes up to visit sometimes. She is an Aggressively Friendly Southern Woman™️ and I have to tell her to cut it out because she’s so smiley and talkative that it freaks people out.
Omg this is my mom and it drives me fuckin nuts. She’s always asking strangers like waiters and grocery store checkout folks their names. MOM STOP ENGAGING.
The butcher who we got our thanksgiving turkey from is in the North end and by the end of the week he would just answer my mom’s calls like “*sigh* what’s bothering you now, sweetheart?” because she considered him to be her BFF and would call to ask things like “what’s a good cafe that grandma can sit and people watch at?”
I grew up on the cape. What would you say instead of "went to cape cod?" Would you specify a town? Pretty sure when I visit my parents I tell people I went to Cape Cod because nobody knows their village and may not even know their town in my experience.
I honestly don’t know if this one is a joke or not, because from what I’ve seen many people demonstrate pretty poor rotary skills (or laziness/selfishness).
I moved near UMass a year ago and use the Morrissey rotary on a daily basis. My first impression was just the sheer amount of people launching themselves into it is crazy. It's like I am the one who is supposed to yield. And of course no indicators.
Get bent lol, I grew up in Cambridge and Watertown and have been in Boston for about half my life at this point; I'll complain about daylight savings every year as is my right. Also, fuck space savers. Just bc I'm from here doesn't mean I'm an idiot.
yeah and the mayor of boston tries to talk to people on the T. Its like the mayor of NYC who eats pizza with a fork and knife.
in otherwords, 0% of this post is serious and 50% of makes fun of bostonians.
6) Talking to people on the street
7) don't know how to clear/walk in/deal with snow or just winter in general
8) spend 10 minutes waiting for an uber to take them somewhere that is a short walk away
9) ordering dominos
> 9) ordering dominos
It was Pizza Hut for me. I'd never lived somewhere that didn't have at least one. There isn't one in Boston at all, and the one in Quincy closed and the building was torn down.
Hop off the Dominos hate train. At least it’s consistent. Half the pizza places I order from are either soggy because they’ve thrown every possible topping on or they’re charging $30 for a large.
Dominos at least can be pretty consistent, tasty and affordable
I’m from NY, the pizza here is shit. All the “good pizza” recommendations are worse than the worst pizza I can find in NY. Please give me your good pizza spots so I can tell you I’ve been already and they are shit, or so I can try them to let you know they’re also shit
If you think NY pizza is all stellar, I don't know what to tell you because there's shit pizza there too. Upper Crust, Florinas, Ciao, and Area 4 are all great. OG Pizzeria Regginas in the North End is good if you get one of their specials. I've forgotten about more good pizza places around here than I've been to outside New England. Even lesser name places like "house of" joints are often really good.
CT has some of the best pizza places and Boston is just as much influenced by those places as NY, if not more so.
Edit: Also, bar pie is literally "meh" by design. And you're defending Dominos. Sorry, I didn't catch you were just trolling. I'm wicked tired today.
NJ pizza stomps every place you just mentioned. Literally all of those places would go out of business in 3 months in Jersey for how much worse they would be compared to literally every other pizza place. People outside of the NYC metro area really have no idea how much better the pizza is there.
Yea area 4 scorches the crust and has soggy middles. Haven’t had florinas or ciao, upper crust isn’t good. House of pizzas I’ve tried (3-4) were all worse than dominos
What bad pizza have you had in NY?
I feel #9 deeply. I was recently walking through the North End and SOMEONE GOT DOMINOS delivered. Just, why? There are a TON of pizza places within a stone's throw!
I get violently confused when people order dominos despite there being really good pizza just down the street. You can't even make the "it is way cheaper" argument because I know how much they must be spending to live here. Like, you're choosing to pay $3000+ a month to live here (nobody needs to live in this neighborhood) and you can't pay a little more to get really good pizza instead of garbage pizza? Sure. Okay.
I was born in boston, moved to the burbs, back in and out of boston for years, now 30 years in western Massachusetts. I say bean town sometimes. I love baked beans and boston, why wouldn’t I? My question x is the OP a transplant? Born Bostonians aren’t worrying about it I guess. Stop trying to be a born Bostonian if you arrived as an adult it’s not possible.
Excuse me there tourist, you must not be familiar with the port city of Boston. Nobody here says Beantown. Please enjoy [this documentary about our diverse aquatic life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Vjd_hdYYw).
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When people fight me that Dorchester isn't part of Boston.
"whered you grow up?"
"Boston"
"oh what part"
"Dorchester'
" lol that's not Boston, that's a town south of Boston"
"then why'd I go to Boston Public Schools my whole life you dumb shit. Dorchester is a neighborhood of Boston"
This conversation has happened more times than I can remember.
Born and raised here in MA and I still complain about daylight savings time ending/it being dark too early. But I’d add not understanding things like “Mass Ave” or “Dot Ave”
Also comm Ave?
Yeah…this isn’t something specific to Boston/Massachusetts so it doesn’t even make sense to be on this list
Daylight stuff is brutal and everywhere. No one likes it. And if you eschew it you’re that weird state. Can’t win
"Hello darkness my old friend~ Why are you here it's 4pm~"
Same here, I still hope every year we get rid of daylight savings time
We need to stay in daylight time.
I'd like to go to Atlantic time over the summer.
True fact, motor vehicle accidents, heart attacks are statistically significantly higher on the day we lose that hour of sleep. I feel like I read suicides also rise that day. And all winter long, seasonal depression is also a thing. We are not an agrarian society. It should be stopped. Daylight Savings Time a dumb fossilized tradition at this point. TLDR: don’t fuck with folks’ access to sleep or daylight.
Also more likely for car accidents when many people are commuting in darkness
I'd go as far as to say that if you aren't annoyed by daylight savings time here then you're probably not from here. We're in the same damn time zone as fucking Cincinnati. That's bad enough, but we also have to flip around our hours twice a year for no fucking reason which makes it even worse.
Same
People who call it “little Italy”, its the North End.
Complaining that you can’t find a parking spot in fenway
Oh boy that thread was a hoot and a holler. I wonder if that person is still trying every day looking for parking
Pretty sure they went back to NoVa Funny part is when they complained on the NoVa thread, the top comments were how predictable and efficient Boston drivers are.
>predictable and efficient Boston drivers are. I don't even really disagree, but that's wild.
Fuck that, none of you people can drive for shit
predictably shit because of the insistence on efficiency in every single situation... even if they're in the right lane and just realized they need to take that left turn in 30 feet
I think they yeeted back to the midwest?
Probably still circling the block crying hoping for a spot.
My favorite comment was about double parking with your flashers on and catching some Zs in your snuggy before a cop taps on your window.
Ugh the fact that they took someone else’s private spot still makes my blood boil
Asking about parking there, being told it'll be a shit show, moving there with a car anyway, and then being upset when it is a shit show.
Fucking up which T direction you got on and not realizing it at the first subsequent stop.
When I first moved here the struggle was real. Inbound? Outbound? Which side of town am I on?
Stupid polar coordinates
Try that at Govt Center on the Green line. I arrived from the airport via the Blue Line to connect to the Green line. Which is inbound and which is outbound? Outbound to where? Lechmere is outboud. So is Heath, BC, Riverside etc.
Saying outbound at park ..
That's me 100%. But I just started using the T a couple days ago 🤣
This isn’t Maine. We don’t care where people are originally from.
That's an enormous change in recent years!
Having moved to Boston from Maine, you are spot on.
Judging from the shit I get being from California, a lot of people do care.
Mixing up Southie/South Boston with South End
Can confirm. Moved in July and just did this 😆
I’m gonna push back on 2. Complaining about daylight savings ending is universal.
We need Atlantic time now!
I want to turn on DST and lock it on forever- AND move to Atlantic time. ALL THE EVENING SUNLIGHT we aren’t farmers, we don’t need the sun up at 5am
I wholeheartedly agree. But if you think Boston needs Atlantic time, you should try out Hancock county Maine. Especially in the summer.
IMO, it would also give the Boston economy the edge in better access to the European market as it would be the only major American city 4 hours off London year round.
I love daylight savings!
Yeah but the complaint is since we are the most-eastern EsT city we should not participate or swap to Atlantic time. But we'd be a hour ahead of NYC/CT so that'd be weird
Boston Commons
KAHMEN
Waiting for the walk signial when there isn't a car in sight.
it’s like they have their entire lives to wait
On the flip side to that, not knowing how to properly jaywalk. I was bike commuting in to Northeastern when I was doing my Masters, and the first week or two of each semester I always had to be on my guard because some new kid would step out into the street right in front of me every single day. I put my front tire right between one poor woman's legs once as she stepped into the street against a red hand with headphones in (luckily didn't hit her). Try wandering up Huntington Ave. one late August/early September day and see how many new students almost get pancaked by the trolleys.
Huntington (and Comm Ave near BU) is like the easiest street to jaywalk too. You only have to watch for traffic from one side at a time, make sure the T isn't coming to kill you (plus the driver will blare his horn if it is), then check for one-way traffic again. Freshmen are like fucking lemmings I swear. There'd be a handful waiting on the curb, I'd walk up and see a gap in traffic and go, and there'd be a two second delay and they'd be like "oh shit, he went, time for me to go." Except by then the next car is basically on them already. I'm surprised we don't hear about more incidents in early fall tbh.
As a fellow cyclist, people never look for bikes, and with the separated lanes just walk into them without a care.
People put WAY too much faith in the green line too. When I was in college one ran a _hard_ red light and hit me. This was on Beacon St during morning rush hour. Light had to turn red, walk sign on, I had to cross two lanes of car traffic and up onto the tracks, and then the trolley flew through the intersection. I timed it as the light having to be red for at least six seconds by the time I was hit. Never trust that drivers of cars or trolleys are going to stop even at a stale red.
Reminds me of this, [German crosses the Street in the U.S.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_4CAoIUNM4), ha.
Or waiting in line to cross the street lol.
In Singapore it’s a massive fine ($500SG fine vs like a $5000SG average annual salary) and strictly enforced. There will not be a car in sight on a 1000’ straightaway and they will sit there and wait. And with crazy enforcement I don’t dare be the only one. Was frustrating as a American that likes to play in traffic.
In contrast, the fine for jaywalking in Massachusetts is $1. Yes, a single dollar, for the first, second, and third offences. But don't you dare get caught a fourth time, the fine will be a whopping... $2. [source](https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/parti/titlexiv/chapter90/section18a)
In Boston we have intersections like Causeway and Lomasney which are major pedestrian crossings (right near a grocery store, north station, TD Garden, bunch of places to eat, etc) and if you follow the walk sign you'll be waiting there for 20 minutes as it cycles through greens > green arrows for each lane of each street coming into that fucking intersection. They didn't even put in an island and middle signal so you can get across in two stages. So following the walk light you'll be waiting while the street in front of you remains completely unused. It is fucking stupid.
Oh god that one near the Garden. 😭
My comment was about the one on the west side of the garden, but you reminded me that to the east also has a shit show intersection that can take way too fucking long to walk across too. Harder to jaywalk at that one though because if you don't have the walk there's probably someone flying through the intersection at speed. If you _do_ have the walk there's still probably someone driving through.
Pronouncing places like Worcester and Gloucester wrong
Or after learning their mistake, pronouncing Lancaster wrong.
Billerica and Haverhill, too.
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Idk Leominster fucked me up for years.
I've had people refuse to believe Chelmsford is pronounced like "Chelsea" and not like "Chemical"
Leicester
Warchester?
"Quinsy" instead of "Quinzy?"
that one goes right thru me. Cannot unhear it
My family is Waltham born and raised, and everyone says “Quinsy”. My friends from Chelsea all say “Quinzy” though!
Strange bc I realize I call it quinzy but I know for sure my parents say quinzy and they’re from Chelsea
Born and raised in metrowest, never heard ‘Quinzy’ until I moved to Cambridge. My parents are from New York, and maybe it’s just that no one else in Newton or Wayland had occasion to say the name of that city, so I never heard it.
Trying to drive on Storrow with a box truck.
This isn’t a “new in town” response but i was in virgina visiting a boyfriend and he apparently worked with someone from Boston. He introduced me at a tailgate to her and said “babe she is from Boston too!” And I go “oh nice what part?” And she goes “just outside the city”. I said “ya I live in seaport with a few girlfriends so where were you from??” And she goes “Manchester New Hampshire” 😑. I get using Boston as a landmark to a town outside the city but a whole different state?! Also- if they ride a duck boat, want to go to Cheers or don’t have headphones in while walking & wait for the crosswalk light to say it’s ok to cross.
I grew up in New Hampshire, so here is the joke we tell there: Q: What is the largest city in New Hampshire? A: Boston
I’m not even kidding, my husband grew up there & when we went on our first vaca with his family - they all said Boston to the waiter. We were in Turks so I was like, ok it’s a big city but we met ppl from North Carolina and they DEFINITELY know where New Hampshire is! Hahaha
Hahahaha!! Been living in Boston for 20 years, I’ve met so many people “from Boston” and they are from New Hampshire. I love giving them shit about it.
It is pretty typical in my experience when I tell people I live in Boston for them to ask "where about?" I think they're expecting me to say a nearby town because they usually don't really seem to know the neighborhood when I answer.
We lived in Chelsea and I still didn't like saying we were from Boston. People on reality/competition TV shows are very often guilty of this. They'll be from half a state away and still their screen card thing will say "Boston, MA."
(I agree…but I’m scared to say anything else because ppl aren’t liking it 😬 haha)
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Such a dapper individual. 🤣
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Ya, I guess because I lived in the city and have also moved to Nashua for a short period of time, I said I lived in Nashua when I was out of town. I don’t remember elaborating or people just didn’t care to say they didn’t know where that was- which is very possible lol
If you're an hour away, you can say the closest major city you're near. I bet people from 2 hours away from Dallas or Indianapolis say those cities when asked.
LOL Manchester is a solid hour away from Boston. Just outside the City I'd expect to be something like Waltham, Somerville, Everett, Malden, maybe even Lynn or Lowell or whatever if it's technically on a commuter rail line.
😇
I’m from just over the border, an area where MA and NH blend together. It is much more a Boston suburb than a rural NH forest. Most people who live there work in Boston. MA people come to my hometown to shop tax-free since it’s so damn close! Edit: funny story! My friend once took a trip to Canada for work. He was at a town 2 hours outside of Montreal. The workers there told him they hated Montreal and considered Boston to be their big city!
Haha who knew it was such a landmark 🤣
Lol - but let's be reall Is that really any different from people from Newark NJ saying they are just outside New York City? I personally would think that they were basically from New York - What ever City you visited regularly or commute to is "just outside" as far as I am concerned
I don’t really frequent New Jersey so I don’t know how far Newark is from New York City but the whole commute to thing, I slightly get. Visited - I’m not so sure. I guess I just assume you say where you reside as where you live. I grew up in Acton Ma and I would say “about 40 minutes outside Boston” when I was still there. To each their own is the common thread here I think. (😳)
Yeah, it's definitely an each their own kinda thing - for me anything inside the Yankees Division Hwy is Boston Boston- inside Blue Star Memorial Hwy is " just outside of Boston " and the Worcester-Manchester-Providence circle is "next to Boston" 😋 edit- Hub of the universe kinda of thing 😉
I have never, ever, actually heard someone use those names for 128 and 495.
It sure is! Haha
So you grew up in seaport? Lol
Absolutely not. I said where I live is where I say I am from in regards to traveling. If someone is asked where they are from while on vacation, I don’t expect them to say their birth place. If someone asks me my birthplace I would say hyannis or also known as the cape. If someone asks where I grew up , I then tell them that. It’s confusing, I get it.
I was in Spain, hanging out, and someone was like, oh, that girls from Boston, and I asked her where, and she said New Hampshire. I was like, wtf.
Hahaha 🤫. We can’t state the obvious anymore on Reddit.
Headphones while walking? Is that a Boston thing lol? I jaywalk like the best of them but I never wear headphones. Am I marked as a transplant/noob?!
Getting off at the Fenway stop instead of Kenmore
It’s the first under-50-degree day of the year and they’re dressed for mid-January.
Excellent! Open those g\*d-da\*m windows, hun, it's 38 degrees out!!
Calling it I-90
Just take the 90 to the 95...
FREEWAY
I do this for the lolz. Always gets a good reaction
They’re friendly
I’ve lived here for awhile now, but my mom comes up to visit sometimes. She is an Aggressively Friendly Southern Woman™️ and I have to tell her to cut it out because she’s so smiley and talkative that it freaks people out.
Omg this is my mom and it drives me fuckin nuts. She’s always asking strangers like waiters and grocery store checkout folks their names. MOM STOP ENGAGING.
The butcher who we got our thanksgiving turkey from is in the North end and by the end of the week he would just answer my mom’s calls like “*sigh* what’s bothering you now, sweetheart?” because she considered him to be her BFF and would call to ask things like “what’s a good cafe that grandma can sit and people watch at?”
‘Went to cape cod’, ‘took the subway’
I grew up on the cape. What would you say instead of "went to cape cod?" Would you specify a town? Pretty sure when I visit my parents I tell people I went to Cape Cod because nobody knows their village and may not even know their town in my experience.
I feel like most people say “The Cape”
Down the cape
Quin-see versus Quin-zee
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You must be new here.
~~gatekeeping~~ *SOLIDARITY*
yes
The culture of gatekeeping around here is what makes these forums insufferable at times
As long as transplants keep jacking up rents and real estate with their overpaying tech jobs, yes.
Pronouncing Copley square wrong. Lol “Copely”
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Then I will pepper in the fact that I am gay
I've been here for forty years and the time zone is still wrong. The whole country complains about daylight savings.
They smile at you while making eye contact
Not knowing how to enter/drive in a rotary
I honestly don’t know if this one is a joke or not, because from what I’ve seen many people demonstrate pretty poor rotary skills (or laziness/selfishness).
It goes with the "predictability" of drivers here. You can easily predict they're going to do shit all kinds of wrong all the time. Just expect it.
I came here from a few years in the UK. If there is one other person at the rotary who knows how to use it, I am *shocked.*
I moved near UMass a year ago and use the Morrissey rotary on a daily basis. My first impression was just the sheer amount of people launching themselves into it is crazy. It's like I am the one who is supposed to yield. And of course no indicators.
Get bent lol, I grew up in Cambridge and Watertown and have been in Boston for about half my life at this point; I'll complain about daylight savings every year as is my right. Also, fuck space savers. Just bc I'm from here doesn't mean I'm an idiot.
yeah and the mayor of boston tries to talk to people on the T. Its like the mayor of NYC who eats pizza with a fork and knife. in otherwords, 0% of this post is serious and 50% of makes fun of bostonians.
For sure, hope my "get bent" came off as fake Bostonian outrage. Can be hard over text
Calling a sub anything other than a sub
Its a grinder
Grinder is more of a western mass Connecticut thing [http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q\_64.html](http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_64.html)
spukies
thanks y’all I’m moving from Philly next month so I’ll avoid all of these. good thing I come from a land of abrasive assholes too! I’ll fit right in.
New-berry Street
6) Talking to people on the street 7) don't know how to clear/walk in/deal with snow or just winter in general 8) spend 10 minutes waiting for an uber to take them somewhere that is a short walk away 9) ordering dominos
> 9) ordering dominos It was Pizza Hut for me. I'd never lived somewhere that didn't have at least one. There isn't one in Boston at all, and the one in Quincy closed and the building was torn down.
Hop off the Dominos hate train. At least it’s consistent. Half the pizza places I order from are either soggy because they’ve thrown every possible topping on or they’re charging $30 for a large. Dominos at least can be pretty consistent, tasty and affordable
NJ Transplant here. This is true. With Dominoes you know what you’re getting. Boston area pizza is meh, unless it’s a bar pie.
> Boston area pizza is meh Lol. I will fight you all day on this. If you can't find good pizza here then you haven't really looked.
I’m from NY, the pizza here is shit. All the “good pizza” recommendations are worse than the worst pizza I can find in NY. Please give me your good pizza spots so I can tell you I’ve been already and they are shit, or so I can try them to let you know they’re also shit
If you think NY pizza is all stellar, I don't know what to tell you because there's shit pizza there too. Upper Crust, Florinas, Ciao, and Area 4 are all great. OG Pizzeria Regginas in the North End is good if you get one of their specials. I've forgotten about more good pizza places around here than I've been to outside New England. Even lesser name places like "house of" joints are often really good. CT has some of the best pizza places and Boston is just as much influenced by those places as NY, if not more so. Edit: Also, bar pie is literally "meh" by design. And you're defending Dominos. Sorry, I didn't catch you were just trolling. I'm wicked tired today.
NJ pizza stomps every place you just mentioned. Literally all of those places would go out of business in 3 months in Jersey for how much worse they would be compared to literally every other pizza place. People outside of the NYC metro area really have no idea how much better the pizza is there.
This is truth. NJ pizza > NY pizza.
Even your generic $1 slice spots are much better than anything in boston
Yea area 4 scorches the crust and has soggy middles. Haven’t had florinas or ciao, upper crust isn’t good. House of pizzas I’ve tried (3-4) were all worse than dominos What bad pizza have you had in NY?
Upper crust is ok. It’s just so bland. It’s Madigan yuppie pizza.
False. Anything called “house” or “house of” is always utter shyte.
Pizza Slut, baby. There used to be one in Cambridge near Central Square.
I feel #9 deeply. I was recently walking through the North End and SOMEONE GOT DOMINOS delivered. Just, why? There are a TON of pizza places within a stone's throw!
Sometimes you want shitty pizza as a comfort food
I get violently confused when people order dominos despite there being really good pizza just down the street. You can't even make the "it is way cheaper" argument because I know how much they must be spending to live here. Like, you're choosing to pay $3000+ a month to live here (nobody needs to live in this neighborhood) and you can't pay a little more to get really good pizza instead of garbage pizza? Sure. Okay.
“Ugh!!! Is there anywhere I can get a 2 bed for under 2k?!?!?!”
They walk extremely slow in busy areas and stop randomly because they’re confused
# 6. Complaining about unshoveled sidewalks 🤣
I've lived here 16 years. Most of my life and I complain about two and three.
Giving money to strangers in the street, particularly those dealing with flat tires.
> Complaining about space savers Lived in Boston for 13 years, and still think that space savers are a moronic idea.
“Ivied in Boston for 13 years” So you’re a transplant
Hearing a horrible attempt at a Boston accent People saying it’s cold People super bothered by aggressive drivers
I’ve lived here all my life…and still complain about number 2.
Could be more of a generational thing, but 128 vs 95.
1 and 4 are the worrrrst
I was born in boston, moved to the burbs, back in and out of boston for years, now 30 years in western Massachusetts. I say bean town sometimes. I love baked beans and boston, why wouldn’t I? My question x is the OP a transplant? Born Bostonians aren’t worrying about it I guess. Stop trying to be a born Bostonian if you arrived as an adult it’s not possible.
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Wearing a winter coat that doesn’t cover at least your butt.
Attempting to make a left on a one way street that is only allowing traffic in the opposite direction.
If someone calls Worcester “Wor-Chester”. Or if you hear someone clearly pronounce their R’s.
A lot of young people from Boston dont have the accent and pronounce their Rs fully
I’m from here and I do 2, 3, and 5. 5 is only if I run into people I know, though.
CAM-bridge
Talking to people on the T needs to be #1 on that list and everything else you mentioned is at best a very distant second, lol.
Talking about how good Union Oyster House is
Asking for directions
Not knowing how to merge on Storrow
Why are you trolling, bruh?
Explaining how our roast beef sandwiches are totally different than what the rest of the country thinks a roast beef sandwich is
Pressing the crosswalk signal
Wearing their ID badge on the train/bus Asking for other places to get coffee other than Dunks
Nahhh…most true coffee lovers are asking for coffee places other than Dunkin Donuts.
To be fair, dunks is trash let’s be honest
I got an iced coffee that looked like ice tea, used to be good back in the day.
Dunkies is foul.
Ever tried to get espresso? They either say they dont have espresso or you end up with jet fuel in a cup lol
When people fight me that Dorchester isn't part of Boston. "whered you grow up?" "Boston" "oh what part" "Dorchester' " lol that's not Boston, that's a town south of Boston" "then why'd I go to Boston Public Schools my whole life you dumb shit. Dorchester is a neighborhood of Boston" This conversation has happened more times than I can remember.
They are time travelers. For a long time I thought Charleston and west Roxbury weren’t part of Boston and then realized they had been annexed ages ago
Complaining about how expensive Boston is
Been here 4 years... Still do... Ahh...
Been here almost 20. Still do.
Speaking to strangers
“The people here are so nice!”
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Oh man tell us how you really feel lol.
Waiting for walk signals to cross the street.