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quinnbeast t1_jbekphl wrote

Reply to comment by mmartino03 in Vermont vs New Hampshire by Lucky-Specialist-790

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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