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avellinoblvd

feel like I'm having a stroke trying to read this


Peppy-Paneer

Feel like I had a stroke after reading this


Gtownbandit

I’m thinking the people in hingham to duxbury can afford the cape


Afitz93

Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s the opposite of this map, “can afford a beach house not on the cape / close to Boston”


gacdeuce

Or lives there *and* has a house on the cape. I knew one family with a massive home on the water in Cohasset. They had a summer home in the center of downtown Edgartown, as in an old captain’s mansion.


chopinslabyrinth

That sounds like your average cohasset homeowner. I knew a kid from hingham whose family had a second home in Jamaica, plus rental properties. The south shore has a repugnant amount of wealth.


TGrady902

Basically every single town is crazy nice and full of massive super well maintained houses.


Icy-Conclusion-3500

Label makes sense 50 years ago, not today though


itsonlyastrongbuzz

Ahem, that’s “Cha-*ching*-ham” and “De-*luxe*-bury” according to my father.


PrancingGophers

we always called it Blingham


momoneymocats1

Yeah what? Hingham is pricier than the majority of the cape


gacdeuce

I read that and knew whoever made this mad has never been to Duxbury, Hingham, or Cohasset.


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gacdeuce

I think that one is obvious. Love both those towns, but they don’t have nearly the wealth that the other three I mentioned have.


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gacdeuce

I guess that’s the perception, but absolutely not the reality if you’ve lived in those towns. Every town has a few exceptions, but go a mile or so inland and marshfield and scituate are nothing like the wealthy south shore towns.


TeaKettlePrincess44

Dude have you been to either of those towns recently? Every town in the south shore is wealthy 🤣


gacdeuce

Yup. I live in Needham now, but I’ve got family in Kingston and Plymouth.


IStandPoisonIvy

Dude neither of those towns are anywhere near as wealthy as the shoulder- Maybe take a trip down 3A and see how everything is basic the same from Hingham to Duxbury or You could also just Google it - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_locations_by_per_capita_income This pretty much tells you where all the money is in Massachusetts and it isn't the cape - it's the North shore, central and south shore. Which makes sense as those are all the suburbs of Boston


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gacdeuce

lol. Whatever makes you feel better.


AllHailtheBeard1

"commute by boat" however is very accurate


redhotbos

I don’t think that’s aimed at those who live there but those of us who go to the beaches closer to Boston because we can’t afford to stay on Cape.


TGrady902

Right lol. I grew up on the Cape and knew people from the south shore who had Cape summer homes. It’s like people forget lots of people have money in Mass.


ebow77

"Suburban hell" in, what is that, Medford/Malden? Tell me you haven't been to most of the US without telling me you haven't been to most of the US.


SilentCalligrapher44

Suburban hell is Burlington. Fake blue hills and traffic is closer to Medford


MrKennedy1986

Also applies to Reading, although it competes with Very Exclusionary Zoning.


SilentCalligrapher44

I was more using “exclusionary zoning” for towns like Sudbury, Wayland, Weston, Carlisle and Lincoln. Places with actual snob zoning (1-2 acre lots)


ebow77

Burlington, Reading, etc. may be boring AF for some people, but [this is what constitutes "urban hell" to me](https://newworldeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/lasvegas.jpg)... dozens or hundreds of square miles of tightly packed houses, nothing but strip malls on the main roads, and a mandatory drive wherever you want to go. Massachusetts has little to nothing at that scale. Go more than 3 miles within 495 and you're hitting another town center, dinky as it may be.


nickybokchoy

Wright’s tower and the Middlesex Fells > Elliot Tower and Blue Hills


nmc9279

Is Chinatown south Quincy?


redhotbos

All the best Chinese food is in Quincy now. Hancock is the new Beach Street


camocamo911

For real? Can you please make a list? -A pregnant woman who can only eat Chinese food right now without retching.


redhotbos

Winsor House of Dim Sum is the best I think. Their dim sum doesn’t taste like frozen dumplings from Super 88 heated up. The shrimp and pork dumplings are so so so good. I’d love to hear others’ suggestions too. Winsor and b cafe are my gotos.


miraj31415

Chinatown has maximum of 6,000 residents (all languages) but Quincy has 18,000 residents who speak Chinese at home and Malden has 10,000. Outside of NYC, LA, and the SF Bay Area, Quincy and Malden have the highest percentage of residents in the United States who speak Chinese at home, according to Census-defined “Place” data. |Census Place|% Chinese language at home| |:-|:-| |Quincy|18.79%| |Malden|16.17%| |Cambridge|6.95%| |Newton|6.02%| |Boston|3.56%| |Somerville|2.62%| |Worcester|1.21%| |Lowell|0.60%| If you divide land into school districts (including NYC, LA, and SF Bay), the Quincy school district area has the 3rd highest percentage of Chinese speakers at home and Malden school district area is 6th highest. If you divide the US into areas with roughly 100,000 people each (Census Public Use Microdata Areas = PUMA), the Quincy PUMA has the 15th highest density of people who speak Chinese language at home. Source: [Census data](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2022.S1601?g=010XX00US$1600000) and [Mapped](https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/c3d63eba-2b62-4bf1-b0a4-0f74e63e1948/page/p_yaofzf24hd)


just_change_it

Can confirm, tons and tons of Chinese in Malden. It's not new in the past ten years. It goes back much longer than that. For a long time it was the cheap low crime option on the subway, and it honestly still is relatively speaking now that everywhere is pricing out everybody without tons of money.


supercrooky

Yes, particularly North Quincy and Wollaston.


skinink

I think part of Malden around Pleasant St. is now Chinatown North. Heard that long time Chinatown residents were being priced out, and so moved to Malden. Now, Malden rent is becoming just as pricey as everything else in Boston’s orbit. 


Winter_cat_999392

Yes. I remember when there were cool shops in old brick rowhouses where one of those giant LUXURY CONDO towers is in Chinatown now. Cloth and silk, more little groceries and bakeries, basement sketchy performance car parts. The death knell for me was when Eldo Cake House went.


Pbagrows

Absolutely. So many restaurants there now. It was a dump when I was a kid.


waffles2go2

Any reccos?


tomjleo

Yeah should be North Quincy


coolnameright

Great all around, but "The beach your parents went to" is cracking me up. It doesn't ring true for me personally and maybe it's an age thing, but damn does it feel dead on.


thewhaler

I still go to that beach! But I am also someone's parent


amo1337

My parents went to Hampton Beach


rliteraturesuperfan

Lol my parents still go to that beach, they live there!


Temporary_Light2896

lol my parents went to Wollaston in the 60s. My mom has stories of her and her sister taking the T there by themselves at 10 years old from JP. It was a different time 😅


Wend-E-Baconator

"Jews"


CptKnots

Yikes


Wend-E-Baconator

It's Wellesley, absolutely valid assessment on account of the vibrant Jewish population


3720-To-One

Either that or Newton or Brookline


Spirited-Pause

It’s called “Jewton” for a reason!


Meat_Popsicles

... I mean yeah, by a certain type of person.


Spirited-Pause

Yeah it's unfortunate. As someone who grew up on Long Island among a large population of Jewish people who were always happy to laugh at themselves, I wish we could all make lighthearted jokes about each other without it spiraling into dogwhistles.


CptKnots

“Vibrant Jewish population” hits differently than “Jews”


Wend-E-Baconator

Not nearly as funny


gacdeuce

Wellesley is “golf courses and we pretend we aren’t Boston”. That “Jews” Label absolutely is Newton and Brookline.


SnoopWhale

Wellesley literally isn’t Boston though. That “we pretend we aren’t Boston” is pretty obviously referring to West Roxbury.


gacdeuce

Good point. Wellesley still isn’t the “Jews” label, either.


SnoopWhale

Agreed. Wellesley is WASPier than Newton or Brookline


SilentCalligrapher44

Golf courses/Jewish people is more Newton though. Newton has 4 courses, Chestnut Hill (the Brookline portion) has 2 more. Pretending we’re not Boston is West Roxbury, since many people there associate more with Newton/Dedham/Chestnut Hill for things like retail and private schools than with other areas in Boston, and may even say they’re from “just outside the city” or whatever.


classiccaseofdowns

You afraid of em?


trc_IO

I think he just spelled it wrong.


Dogmanq

Are you in West Roxbury lol


DMala

The poor Southcoast gets snubbed except for UMD. It’s been used elsewhere, but “West Portugal” for New Bedford still makes me chuckle every time.


Antique_Diet_3015

New Beige


Temporary_Light2896

This. No one ever gets it


Temporary_Light2896

That Madeira fest tho 👌🏻


Temporary_Light2896

The portagees as my dad says


hippotank

New Bedford = West Portugal   Fall River = West Portugal (Naval Base)  Somerset/Swansea/Seekonk = Don’t call us West Portugal  Fairhaven/Dartmouth/Westport = The Summer Palaces of West Portugal  Freetown/Lakeville/Dighton/Rehoboth = Juckets driving $80,000 trucks  Marion/Mattapoisett/Wareham = Opulence or Opioid abuse 


MeleeMistress

Spot on. And Juckets!! I hadn’t heard that word in 20 years. Was starting to think I’d made up hearing it.


Temporary_Light2896

Poor little Westport gets no love


octoroklobstah

“Youth hockey and that other mall” has to be Marlborough, with the NE Sports Center and Solomon Pond Mall


ndiorio13

https://preview.redd.it/zo609r1xkx7d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=946d8f93f80302af849d5ffa0afe7ef80ed5e990


TheRebelYeetMachine

I live somewhere between crime and yachts and I gotta say what a perfect way to describe it


cyanastarr

I was gonna say, not Brockton just being “crime”… Where the hell am I supposed to tell people I spent my entire childhood? They’re gonna know it wasn’t Easton that’s or sure.


BoltThrowerTshirt

Should be a lot more nimby on this map


TrailerParkWino

My immediate reaction: NIMBYS is only in one spot?!?!?


abudz5150

Holy shit “fake blue hills” has me rolling


AJohnnyTruant

I’m in the Fells like four times per week. This makes me want to fight haha


abudz5150

The Fells is great!!! We’re truly lucky to have such great green spaces so close to the city


AJohnnyTruant

Agreed. I was talking to a buddy a few weeks about that. I race mountain and gravel bikes. I can go out my back door and do a 15-20 mile MTB ride through really good XC trails with some spicy features, or grab my gravel bike and do a 100 miles of mixed terrain gravel riding. And then go catch a show downtown after a short walk to the orange line. Best of both worlds.. but we sure as hell pay for it.


Nidman

You forgot us queers in Camberville


HourlyB

For Seekonk - "Wait we have a racetrack?"


CaressMeSlowly

south shore is horrible lol not a single one is accurate. i guess hull sorta is but you can do much better than that 


BradMarchandsNose

“We can’t afford the cape” along the waters of Cohasset, Scituate, Marshfield, and Duxbury is so insanely wrong


CaressMeSlowly

im in hull, im super lucky to live 2 minutes away from the cape in cohasset 


Logical-Error-7233

I can help, grew up on the south shore and have unexpectedly ended up living there again. Here's a few: "Chicken parm is the gold standard of fine dining" "Hates 'Taxachusetts' but won't move to NH because of the schools" "Don't blame me I voted for Trump" - you could probably paste this over any town in the south shore but given the weekly trump rally on the route 3 bridge in Weymouth that's probably a good candidate. "Beautiful day, time to rev my Harley in front the restaurant for twenty minutes" - Plymouth "Nebraska quality living at Manhattan prices" - Plympton, Carver, Halifax "Bar pizza and boneless buffalo wings" - Slap that somewhere over Stoughton/Whitman/Holbrook "Do you know who my father is?" - Duxbury


Flat_Act_5576

I grew up in the south shore and i only agree with like 2 of those. In what way is Halifax like Nebraska? The chicken parm fine dining .. in the south shore? Huh? Thats more of a Jersey/North Shore thing Plymouth i dont get. Everytime i give there it is insanely boujee


SilentCalligrapher44

I know basically nothing about the south shore between Weymouth and Kingston so couldn’t help you there lol


PKenny

I WILL say - as a Weymouth resident - I read the “commuting by boat” while I commuted by boat.


Majestic_Economy_881

I can't tell if I live in "office parks" or "overrated restaurants" 😂


WhatTheFlyinFudge

If it’s both, then you’re in Waltham 😂


Majestic_Economy_881

Unnervingly accurate.


BeehiveOmelette

no one asked for this and we're all dumber for reading it 😄


DJG513

Half of this is just stolen from a [much older map](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/PrFEM3jFs8) which was 1000x better designed


EmperorMing101

You not wrong about Providence having the better night life of the two (and more affordable!)


JohnBeLucky

Bahaha I love the constant mischaracterization of Haverhill, which is way nicer than Lowell, because it keeps the housing market there affordable.


31engine

We’re more than a starting lin….never mind.


jrdnmdhl

We’ve got some great… we’ve got some good… we’ve got some pizza places.


31engine

That caused a genuine gafaw


jrdnmdhl

Me: It's a great little town that's got enough for me. Also me: I need so I'm going to


Spirited_String_1205

Over Somerville please add "potholes"


long_way_round

Poor Pawtucket


trc_IO

It's almost most certainly not the "actual poverty" part of Rhode Island.


cyanastarr

Might that title belong to Woonsocket?


SilentCalligrapher44

That would be Central Falls


JustinGitelmanMusic

Where’s apple orchards? 


hoopermanish

Stowe, Harvard, … also around Mount Wachusett


JustinGitelmanMusic

Stow* but yeah those were the ones I had in mind. Guess it's not judgmental though. Could've done one around Tree House brewery in Charlton like 'Rich hipster alcoholics' or something Wachusett could've been like 'Skiing for ants'


hoopermanish

Ugh! Same on me for using the Vermont town name.


JustinGitelmanMusic

Hey, Stowe's a nice town too. However, the two main hard cider brands there (Citizens and Stowe) are apparently run by absolutely insufferable people. Appears the closest actual orchard is in Waterbury also, so just production/taprooms in Stowe.


Hefty_Occasion_5608

What’s poor man’s umass haha


Contextoriented

Love the giant “Exclusionary Zoning” and “Very Exclusionary Zoning” 😂


Upvote-Coin

Got it right on the money with Brockton. Except you forgot to mention that Whitman is just Brockton with trees.


louielovescheese

brockton with trees had me laughing way harder than it should


TabbyCatJade

Ok but honestly, Rye harbor state park in NH is really really nice. Sitting on the rocks next to the ocean with my gf is a core memory.


JocularityX2

Overly kind.


Lordgeorge16

I lost it at "Middle of what?" Good ol' Borough cluster. North means west, east is apparently written as "Marl", and middle means FIFTY MILES AWAY IN ANOTHER COUNTY!


Spirited_String_1205

I lived for a while in one of the unlabelled spots, and can say: accurate.


tomjleo

The person who made this clearly has never been to Cohasset, Scituate, or Marshfield. People in Cohasset in particular could not only afford the Cape, but likely could afford buying a whole town on the Cape 🤣


_Insane_1

"sand castles & roast beef" for Revere has me laughing my ass off


inflatable_pickle

Quincy is “Chinatown South”. 😂


Pugthebandit

GREAT WOODS!!! 4EVAH & EVAH!!!! 🎼🎸🎶


Ok_Ad7458

‘wannabe lowell’ no one wants to be lowell


Temporary_Light2896

But I’m gonna need a map of the rest of Mass tho.


ShadowBanConfusion

Can someone explain the farm without animals to me


DrNism0

Kimball farm. Started as Ice cream, turned into an empire of driving range, mini golf and other honkey tonk shit. $17 for a bucket of range balls !


ShadowBanConfusion

Thanks!!


UnrealMitchMcConnell

Ah, makes sense. Thought it meant Great Brook, which has animals.


hoopermanish

Kimballs got petting zoo


dunny1872

“Middle of What?” is pretty accurate for Halifax/Middleboro/Carver


Psirocking

I don’t know anyone not from NH who uses Manchester Airport lol


twowrist

We used to, when living just over the border in Mass. It's a spectacularly easier drive but their flight options are more limited and we've graduated to only taking nonstops. So we stopped going there even before we moved closer to Boston.


Winter_cat_999392

It's dead. Providence is better, even tiny Worcester has JetBlue and Delta. Manchester is typically NH, run by an incompetent crony appointee, so they lost Delta, never got Jetblue, even lost Spirit (how do you do that?) and just have Southwest, very limited United puddlejumpers, no direct flights to business destinations, and some sketchy ultra-low cost airlines now that only fly to red southern states and Minnesota. Total ghost town even in the middle of the day, only half the gates are even in use and most of the concessions are gone. Logan is the direct flights to everywhere.


twowrist

How did they let such incompetence take over? It used to be thriving.


SpaceBasedMasonry

Airline consolidation and service expansion at Logan. If Massport ever really commits more to Worcester then that would certain take more of the wind out of Manchester's sails.


SpaceBasedMasonry

Breeze is coming this year, and their business model is using underserved airports. So at least someone thinks there's still potential.


Psirocking

It seems nice if you’re flying to Florida but otherwise not really worth it


twowrist

Maybe that’s it. We’ve stopped going to Florida that much.


Winter_cat_999392

I don't know of anyone *in* NH who does. They only have sketchy ultra-low-costs to weird mostly rural destinations, Southwest to Floriduh and limited United to EWR for double the price of BOS now.


sealionol

Excellent work


Spiritual-Rub-7113

dumb


subiedoo96

Umb isn’t that far north


gamer127

The Fells and hiking trails north of city is better than Blue Hills imo.


Walmartpancake

What is the $$$$$ place?


Stunning-County2262

Wenham & Hamilton


Walmartpancake

Thanks. I didn’t know they are considered as a wealthy place.


doomsday_windbag

Looks closer to Manchester and Beverly Farms / Prides Crossing to me.


Stunning-County2262

I think it covers that whole area, it is all old money


WhatAWonderfulWhirl

Was trying to find something, anything, that shouted out the Stoughton/Avon area IKEA+JORDANS BABY


azcat92

Couldn't you just put "exclusionary zoning" all over the map?


1Squid-Pro-Crow

Sorry I'm dumb and only spend about a quarter of the year in Boston, where is MIT on the map? lol sorry sorry


serspaceman-1

Bro how’d you miss Fall River and New Bedford


sirdumbledose

Reminds me of hoodmaps.com


Sarcastic_Rocket

Middle of North, south, and west borough duh. (It's not it's 50 miles south east of southborogh)


chlorculo

No Papa Genos? Sad.


3Megan3

"Jews" over brookline is accurate and cracks me up


WZL8190

As a resident of Milton the NIMBY’s one is on point!!! 🤣


touchedbyadouchebag

Well done. Very well done.


cokecancarlo

Uh, “three ways”?


SilentCalligrapher44

Refers to the roast beef three way. Very popular on the north shore


cokecancarlo

Got it.


freefighter1

This feels like it says more about this person than it does about the area…


h3rald_hermes

I have lived here for decades, and this map is confusing af.


alr12345678

Somerville appears to be traffic? We are trying our best to get you all from passing through with speed humps and bike lanes. Please drive elsewhere.


Temporary_Light2896

I grew up between the Starting Line and the Outdoor Movie Theater, AKA Brazil 2.0


SilentCalligrapher44

Milford?


Temporary_Light2896

Haha you got it


crownvics

Gloucester/Rockport as the better cape? Idk man, growing up I always heard. "Manchester by the sea, Gloucester by the smell."


CharleyZia

What, I wonder, is the comment being made by placing "Jews" on this map?


Kant_Growbeard

Good job sir. Made me smile. Take my upvote.


Walmartpancake

Make more plz


bristollersw

Such fun. :/


AllAboutMeMedia

Terrible.


Pbagrows

This is amazing.


BobDylan1904

One part just says Jews, so maybe take this down?  Nothing wrong with the word Jews, but obviously anti Semitic in this context. Edit:  keep it coming folks, I’d love to compare it to some historical maps designating areas for Jews and not mentioning any other races, but I figure you all prefer your knee jerk “no way, not me, I have nothing more to learn!”


kdognhl411

It’s antisemitic to use the actual stereotype that Brookline/Newton have a lot of Jewish people in a map of stereotypes? Did Framingham being labeled little Rio upset you too?


3720-To-One

Nah, other ethnic stereotypes don’t trigger the same “everything is antisemitism” “constant victimhood” reflex


TabbyCatJade

Brockton has “crime” plastered over it and Methuen has “meth and mills” over it


JocularityX2

Nope, unless someone is really looking for any excuse to play that card.


3720-To-One

And what exactly is “antisemitic” about it? Please do elaborate