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PolarBlueberry t1_iu8zwqa wrote

Reply to comment by bigolebucket in Just in case any resident of the four most western countries had ANY doubt of their position in the minds of the rest of the state... "Western Mass.. I don't even understand as a concept," says one Bay Stater. by Emergency_Address_51

The Berkshires is the Berkshires. It starts to become more like New York so they have their own region. They drive to Albany for the big city and root for NY sports teams.

Western Mass are the 3 counties in the CT River valley and the hill towns directly east and west. They have their own media outlets based out of Springfield that almost exclusively talk about the I-91 corridor, with some stories from The Berks, but they also get Albany news.

Central Mass is Worcester County, which is now part of the Boston media network so they are not Western Mass, but Eastern Mass doesn’t accept them, they are their own.

then you have Eastern Mass which is subdivided by North Shore and South shore, with The Cape and Islands as their own region as well.

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surprisekitten t1_iu954hw wrote

I’m as someone who grew up in the Berkshires (10m from ny boarder), if we went to a city it was NYC or Boston, who goes to Albany?

Can attest we did get tristate area news which was annoying, especially around elections.

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bigolebucket t1_iu95ts1 wrote

Yeah “the city” was NYC to us. We got Albany TV before satellite hence the heavy NY influence.

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