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Sure, and Portsmouth, Worcester and Providence are all a part of Boston too, when you look at it from a financial perspective. But they're not. They are their o
by jsavimbi 15y ago
Sure, and Portsmouth, Worcester and Providence are all a part of Boston too, when you look at it from a financial perspective. But they're not. They are their own incorporated cities with elected governments, complete with by-laws and regulations, independent agencies, school systems, taxing, licensing and terms for residents and natives alike. Just like Bostonians and Cantabrigians. So no, not even in the remotest of terms, are Boston and Cambridge the same. They're not even in the same county.
And when you're writing a piece that even you know stretches the known boundaries of truth in order to promote your events publication, the least you can do is aim for a little bit of accuracy, even if it's just to save face. Truth isn't trivial.
- natesm 15y agoI can take the Red Line from Park Street to Harvard Square. I can't take it to Worcester or Providence. If Manhattan was its own city, it would still be associated with Brooklyn, because they're one subway stop or bridge walk apart.
- jsavimbi 15y agoYou can take an MBTA train to both Worcester and Providence from Boston. The MBTA is also the authority that manages the subway system, the bus routes and other services in eastern Massachusetts. Not just Boston. Anyone ever confuse Newark with NYC? How about Jersey City? And yes, Silicon Valley does not stretch from Sausalito to Berkeley through Oakland and SoMa down to San Jose, either. Especially when you're pushing mindless bragging rights.
- jf271 15y agoClose. The MBTA owns the commuter rail but does not operate it. It is outsourced to the Mass Bay Commuter Rail Company.MBTA provides the ticketing but does not operate the trains. http://www.mbcr.net/ http://www.mbcr.net/
- jsavimbi 15y agoYou can also take the Fung Wa from Chinatown to Chinatown for $20 but that will not keep them from being separate entities.
- esrauch 15y agoI'm living in Cambridge and it seems like pretty standard fare for people to consider it part of Boston. The T isn't just like other trains, its the intra-Boston trains. Anywhere you can get to by taking the subway in NYC is part of NYC, that doesn't include Metro North or Amtrak. Similarly the T in Boston wouldn't include the commuter rail or whatever. I understand that they have separate governments, but they are directly touching; you can walk from Kendall across the bridge in 10 minutes. The government is irrelevant for this article, it's clearly talking about the geographical area.
- IdeaHamster 15y agoManhattan (well, it was just New York at the time) and Brooklyn were their own cities. Also, each NYC borough is in its own county (Manhattan --> New York County, Queens --> Queens County, Brooklyn --> Kings County, Bronx --> Bronx County, Staten Island --> Richmond County).
- m0nastic 15y agoI'm from Quincy (separate city from Boston, but I don't bother to distinguish when I tell people where I'm from as no one knows where it is), so I can appreciate the fact that you're trying to promote accuracy. That said, every article I've read about Silicon Valley for the past ten years includes places that aren't part of the valley, so I'm not so sure it's a great battle to fight. I find the fact that 3 of the 6 languages he lists all being in the Lisp family is a little silly (not to mention that he counts C, because Ritchie was at Harvard at one point even though the language wasn't invented there; but at the same time also counts Scala, for the opposite reasons). The Boston area isn't short of history, computer science-related, or otherwise. If he is trying to pound his chest about the cool things which have come from Boston, he shouldn't have to reach this hard.