For a lot of Bostonians, their neighborhood is at least as
important as the city (or the world) as a whole, yes. At
least, that's the way it used to be, and I doubt it's changed
that quickly over the last decade or so. And it did seem more
pronounced than when I was in Chicago and other famously
Balkanized cities I've visited over the last twenty
years.
TM (currently a Philadelphian, who's irked when babblers here
say Philly is a "city of neighborhoods" when a) what city
isn't and b) Philly don't know neighborhoods the way Boston
knows neighborhoods)
-----Original Message----- From: Carrie Pruett [mailto:
pruettc@hotmail.com]
My impression of the Boston area - and this is more from
reading than from the little time I've spent there - is that
it's more a collection of a lot of different cities than it
is unified, and residents tend to identify themselves more
with whatever enclave they live in than as a Bostonian. I
suppose this is true in a way of most cities but it seems
more pronounced in
Boston. Is that an accurate assessment?
>Kevin, as M. Blumenthal notes, your image of Boston
as adjoins >Cambridge
>is
>extremely distorted if you attempted to apply it to
Boston as a whole,
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