Just a little FYI we really don’t use counties in MA unless it’s for court cases/jury duty or home deeds, things like that. Maybe it’s something new they’re using in real estate idk, but in general, we use the areas like, Boston proper, greater Boston, metro west, north shore, south shore, the Merrimack Valley, Cape Cod, south coast, etc. I think western MA may be different with their use of counties? But in eastern MA, those of us who grew up here don’t refer to living in say, southern Middlesex county. We would say the name of the city/town or “a suburb of x” or metro west, if you want to be keep it more general.
When looking for real estate people will look for a particular area depending on how they’ll be commuting. So if someone is taking the commuter rail from the north shore, they would write it that way (when asking about communities to live in). Or commuting via the mass pike, or rt 93 to Boston, or rt 2 to Cambridge, you could ask for help looking for home in an area that would work best given those particular commutes. Hope I’m making sense. But traffic is just so bad in eastern MA that commute times are a major factor in determining where to live.
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Just a little FYI we really don’t use counties in MA unless it’s for court cases/jury duty or home deeds, things like that. Maybe it’s something new they’re using in real estate idk, but in general, we use the areas like, Boston proper, greater Boston, metro west, north shore, south shore, the Merrimack Valley, Cape Cod, south coast, etc. I think western MA may be different with their use of counties? But in eastern MA, those of us who grew up here don’t refer to living in say, southern Middlesex county. We would say the name of the city/town or “a suburb of x” or metro west, if you want to be keep it more general.
When looking for real estate people will look for a particular area depending on how they’ll be commuting. So if someone is taking the commuter rail from the north shore, they would write it that way (when asking about communities to live in). Or commuting via the mass pike, or rt 93 to Boston, or rt 2 to Cambridge, you could ask for help looking for home in an area that would work best given those particular commutes. Hope I’m making sense. But traffic is just so bad in eastern MA that commute times are a major factor in determining where to live.