Originally Posted by
jimmuller
... But what is this about Metrowest? I thought everything outside of I495 was considered "western Mass".
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Once you clear the Worcester County line, the phrase "Central Massachusetts" starts creeping into the signage. Sounds slightly exotic. Not sure how much farther you have to go before the self-description switches to "Western Massachusetts"; the part of my brain that likes crisp typologies (not a very large part) would hazard a guess that this starts at the Connecticut River, but the key word there is "guess". Rubel puts the Quabbin Reservoir and environs on the Western edge of the Central Massachusetts map and the Eastern edge of the Western Massachusetts map, just to be safe.
I always thought everything West of Worcester was the Midwest, but my sweetie is from Chicago and just laughs at that...
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