the worst drivers in America are from........

[Edd]

Puh-lez. SoNH is NOT metro Boston. Heck, anything outside 495 is definitely not Metro Boston. Most would actually define metro Boston as being inside 95, let alone 495.

93 is actually easier to drive on the weekends in vacationer crowd than when there is light traffic and people weaving in and out of traffic going 80+. That crap drives me nuts. More often it is a NH plate than a MA plate, too, from my experience.

I live in seacoast NH and the driving around here is so chill compared to Salem, Manchester, and points south of there.

I spend 2-3 days a week in North Conway and am exposed to a ton of out of state drivers there. If someone is driving like a dick I usually know before I look at the plate that it's from Mass. I understand that those are survival tactics honed during years of Boston rush hour driving but it annoys me just the same.

 

[WakeboardMom]

Puh-lez. SoNH is NOT metro Boston. Heck, anything outside 495 is definitely not Metro Boston. Most would actually define metro Boston as being inside 95, let alone 495.

Though to the comment I piggy backed on... it was completely a joke. 93 is actually easier to drive on the weekends in vacationer crowd than when there is light traffic and people weaving in and out of traffic going 80+. That crap drives me nuts. More often it is a NH plate than a MA plate, too, from my experience.

Apologies, because I can't type the exact terminology right now...I'm gonna have to find the exact phrasing...but for all intents and purposes southern NH really IS metro Boston. There are tables and facts and phrases, etc. that I can't wrap my head around right now. For example, if you were moving from Cambridge to Nashua, you wouldn't pay crossing-state-border fees. That's just one facet. (Geoff...help me out here.)

"Most would actually define..." LOL...my family is from Charlestown. They think when I drive from Pelham to the Zakim Bridge it's a haul. Not so much if you do the drive from here everyday. Seriously...we are considered the greater-Boston-area in spite of the fact that not everyone thinks so. In my life, I've lived both sides. ; - )

NH plate? When I'm driving in NY or NJ and someone's jockeyin' for position, I'm thinkin' "Hey, a$$hole...the plate may say NH, but I know what I'm doin' Bring it!"

 

[WakeboardMom]

Here ya go...

"The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has defined 366 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) for the United States of America. The OMB defines a Metropolitan Statistical Area as one or more adjacent counties or county equivalents that have at least one urban core area of at least 50,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston-Cambridge-Quincy,_MA-NH_MSA



Southern NH is counted in the Boston MSA. : - )

 

[WakeboardMom]

Puh-lez. SoNH is NOT metro Boston. Heck, anything outside 495 is definitely not Metro Boston. Most would actually define metro Boston as being inside 95, let alone 495.

PS Thank you for the "smileys." I like that your location says "Ashland, NH," otherwise I mighta felt compelled to ask you "wtf?" PUH-LEEZE back atcha - "NH" does not equal "rube."

(I've already addressed the "Metro Boston" issue. ; -)

LOL...how many people say they're "from NYC" when, in actuality, they're from LI? Do the math...geographically speaking. Pelham, NH is closer to Boston than Huntington Station is from NYC. Dork? Huntington Station to Water St. is an hour according to MapQuest, whereas Pelham, NH to the financial district in Boston is less than an hour.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

People in northern Maine consider any place south of Bangor as part of Mass. :lol:

 

[riverc0il]

PS Thank you for the "smileys." I like that your location says "Ashland, NH," otherwise I mighta felt compelled to ask you "wtf?" PUH-LEEZE back atcha - "NH" does not equal "rube."

wtf, eh? :lol:

Born, raised, and went to college in the 495 belt, lived and worked on the north shore for several years, and spent a significant amount of my free time in Boston in my 20s. The majority of my live was spent inside the 495 belt and I am familiar with SoNH (having lived on the MA side of the border and having relatives in SoNH) as well as the major differences between the two areas once you get one town north of the NH/MA border commerce strips.

Perhaps by government numbers SoNH is considered part of the greater Boston metro area... but really? Not so much. There is more to my experience and point of view than current location.

And try to get to Pelham, NH to the financial district during Rush Hour. :lol: HA! I have commuted on I-93 and I-495 in the morning. Unless you leave at 6am, they are stop and go in many places every work day morning and afternoon.

:beer:

 

[WakeboardMom]

wtf, eh? :lol:
And try to get to Pelham, NH to the financial district during Rush Hour. :lol: HA! I have commuted on I-93 and I-495 in the morning. Unless you leave at 6am, they are stop and go in many places every work day morning and afternoon.

:beer:

God bless you for that, seriously. It's good that there are people in the world who will do that. I know about that commute...born and raised exactly where you mentioned; at the confluence of 495 and 93. My parents bought their house in 1960 because of its proximity to 93. Have lots of friends who made that commute back in the day; and still now have friends commuting from SoNH.

Yucch. I'm spoiled. My current commute is 10 minutes and involves stopping at one stop sign. ; - )

(I drive through Ashland most weekends during ski season. : - )

 

[Black Phantom]

God bless you for that, seriously. It's good that there are people in the world who will do that. I know about that commute...born and raised exactly where you mentioned; at the confluence of 495 and 93. My parents bought their house in 1960 because of its proximity to 93. Have lots of friends who made that commute back in the day; and still now have friends commuting from SoNH.

Yucch. I'm spoiled. My current commute is 10 minutes and involves stopping at one stop sign. ; - )

(I drive through Ashland most weekends during ski season. : - )

That sure as hell is not the 02129