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mmartino03 t1_jbe90hi wrote

NH's proximity to Boston. Southern NH is basically a Boston suburb.

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TheHumanCanoe t1_jbeinzm wrote

Yep grew up there and can confirm. When asked where I grew up I say Seacoast and when I get a strange look I say 45 mins north of Boston near the ocean and it clicks.

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207Simone t1_jbeprbe wrote

Hey I grew up on the seacoast too…went to Winnacunnet. My family from Boston proper, I wousltn necessarily say the seacoast is a “Boston suburb” but I digress

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kellogsmalone t1_jbizb9r wrote

Right? I don't know how my cousin commutes from Rowley to Logan everyday.

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207Simone t1_jbj9vjj wrote

I used to commute from Hampton to Boston 4x/week for school til I was able to move back

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FlinkHaddock t1_jbl8ik2 wrote

It's manageable if you leave super early and have a place to park. Other than that it's a grind.

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TheHumanCanoe t1_jbgy9xv wrote

Def not a Boston suburb. Lots of towns and a whole state line in between. But people just got the location when I’d refer to Boston’s distance.

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FlinkHaddock t1_jbl82z6 wrote

That's because the dummies who ask are lucky to even know where Boston is. Somewhere they saw a map and remembered it. Outside of that they couldn't find Montana.

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EveryDayIsAGif t1_jbfvsa1 wrote

Here's a population density map of new england: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/pizl2o/population_density_of_new_england_municipalities/

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syphax t1_jbh5p0b wrote

Good map, but even this method can be deceptive and hide the peak volume centers. E.g. the city of Boston is basically a dot on this map, but has a population basically equivalent to all of Vermont’s!

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quinnbeast t1_jbekphl wrote

Portsmouth is an hour north of Boston. Would you call Barre “basically a Burlington suburb,”? 🤔

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BrandyVT1 t1_jbem4gt wrote

Boston is a larger city than Burlington. A good chunk of Fairfield county is an hour north of Manhattan, and I think everyone would call Fairfield county a suburb of NYC. There are also a ton of large employers north of Boston in the Burlington/Andover region like Raytheon, HPE, etc. that makes commuting from NH much easier.

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[deleted] t1_jbf24c5 wrote

>A good chunk of Fairfield county is an hour north of Manhattan, and I think everyone would call Fairfield county a suburb of NYC

Connecticunt here. FFC is absolutely a suburb of NYC, and more like NY than New England IMO.

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quinnbeast t1_jbemo37 wrote

I see. So the size of the city shortens the geographic distance. Gotcha. 😆

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BrandyVT1 t1_jbeqrp5 wrote

Larger cities influence a larger area, don't understand what's difficult to understand about that. NH is included in the Boston MSA in the Census.

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HardTacoKit t1_jbexl5v wrote

Of its suburbs? Yes, of course. The suburbs of, say, Chicago, are massive geographically.

The suburbs of Burlington are very small, both geographically and population.

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mmartino03 t1_jbg1kg4 wrote

I guess you could. Plenty of prep commute back and forth.

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