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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorPain" data-source="post: 4735402" data-attributes="member: 82012">Just my view, but I have lived in Massachusetts most of my life.  First there is Boston and then there is Massachusetts. Boston doesn't much care for massachusetts, and massachusetts doesn't much care for boston. Boston isn't just the city proper, its the greater metro area as well. Its cold here in the winter, brutally hot and humid in the summer (I moved out west for abit, and found the dry heat much more easy to handle). The culture is pretty mixed. Lots of old Italian, Jewish, and Irish families. Also lots of Yankee (straight from the mayflower) families in some of the suburbs. Where I live we have a sizeable South East Asian community (mostly cambodian). Sharp divisions between blue collar and white collar folk, more so than I encountered out west. And the boston accent seems to break down on class lines for some reason. The accent thing is pretty interesting. As I said I lived out west for a bit, and never noticed too many regional differences with accent. Here people who live in Dorchester talk different than people who live in Revere. People who live in Lawrence talk different than people who live in Gloucester (pronounced Glawsta'). Another give away is whether someone is reading the globe or the herald. Lot of history here as well. Plenty of places to go see.</blockquote>