While there’s certainly something to be said for being forced to share space for an extended duration, speaking as someone born and raised in Boston, it’s not s

While there’s certainly something to be said for being forced to share space for an extended duration, speaking as someone born and raised in Boston, it’s not super uncommon to see strangers interacting on the T. Maybe the overwhelming numbers of students has something to do with it, I don’t know. But it happens from time to time. What I have no perspective on is if this is true, or not true, of other dense metro US population centers.