> > > >Massachusetts is the least cool of the six states (apologies to those who live there); its greatest asset is also its albatross: Boston, one of the most messed up cities in the West yet which nevertheless has a lot of rich history and culture behind it.
> > >
> > > Umm...."most messed up cities of the *West*"?
> > > Do you mean East, SamSam?
> > > Or was there something here I've missed?
> > >
> > > -flying"KNOWS Boston is on the East Coast, as in right on the water, practically"cats
> >
> > There's a whole world out there, flyingcats. :-)
>
> Oh, duh.
> Ok, I have the great urge to say, "Oh, you mean West as in *that* West"...but it sounds even more ignorant than I've already been sounding.
> Gah. Reminds me of that link Tubba put out around the beginning of election time about England Revoking (sp) the USA's independence. It had this on it quite a lot: "For the 97.6 % of you who DON'T realize a world exists outside your borders..."
> *sigh* But I do realize that, usually.
>
> -flying"really thinks it should be larger than 2.4%, because that's just sad"cats

One little-known fact that is little-known outside of New England, but is commonly common knowledge to knowledgable New Englanders is that Boston was originally an island, surrounded by water. They had the Back Bay on one side and a front bay, which was called the harbor, on the other side. They liked the Back Bay so well they filled it in and built streets and buildings on it. So if you ever go east, or west if you are in Old England, to Boston and you find a bay with streets and buildings on it, you are in, or maybe on, the Back Bay. I think they filled it in because it was infested with mosquitoes, but now all you have to worry about there is muggers. This is progress.
Howard