Post something you like about Massachusetts!

[bicentennial_baby]

I'll start:

Marriage Equality :bounce:

[BeachBaby]

1. You!

Aerosmith
Matt Damon
Ben Affleck
Clam Chowder

:hi: :loveya:

[LynneSin]

2. They can keep Aerosmith - their music has sucked for decades

seriously!

[DS1]

3. It warms up

and you can go outside and take pictures of stuff while the shadows get long.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Yeah, that's a good thing

:)

[BarenakedLady]

4. My brother and his family live there.

[Forkboy]

5. Just about everything.

We have culture, counter-culture, anti-culture...and the Broons! :)

[bicentennial_baby]

9. It was hard to pick just one thing, so I went with the obvious

:hi:

[Sequoia]

6. Okay.

I'ld like to go there, but:

Boston

Cambridge

Concord/Lexington: The Shot Heard 'round the World

Paul Reviere

First in Freedom

Red Sox

[LisaM]

8. Most things!

I've always loved it there.

[trof]

10. My daughter lives there. And the matcoms.

I like the clams, too.
;-)

[no name no slogan]

11. Lots o' stuff

But you and sniffa top the list :hi:

[petronius]

12. The Peabody-Essex Museum, drivers that make Californians look polite,

Tent City, snow...

:)

[Initech]

41. True, we're light-years behind MA when it comes to driving.

:evilgrin:

[Gormy Cuss]

13. The seasons, the people, the T,...

I could go on, but suffice it to say I miss my adopted home.

[Amaya]

14. i can buy booze on sunday

:)

[Cabcere]

15. Boston accents.

:D The first time I heard a real one, I thought the guy was joking - but nope, it was totally for real! :hi:

[TZ]

16. Yeah. They are pretty funny..

At University of Maryland we teased a TA from Boston UNMERCIFULLY about his accent..But he had a good sense of humor..:)

[SoxFan]

22. Ducks with sinus trouble

[Marrah_G]

17. It's my home!

I love my home, love new england....I could never live anywhere else.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Cambridge. I spent a summer there. What a great town.

Boston -- fond memories. Good city. Love the Italian section.

The shore -- Gloucester, etc. Very nice. (I've never been to the Cape but have always wanted to go.)

The little New England towns -- like something out of a storybook.

The cranberry bogs in October are amazing.

Massachusetts -- one of the most liberal, enlightened states we have. Colleges and universities up the wazoo. Love it.

I have nothing but positive feelings towards the whole state.

[sniffa]

47. I spent most of my life in Cambridge

I love my hometown.

[Arugula Latte]

64. Nice place to grow up/live.

Lucky you. :)

[DS1]

19. This place

http://www.tendercropfarms.com/

best bacon in the country.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Can we go on a field trip there?

:)

[DS1]

23. I 'spose

It's just down the road anyway

[bicentennial_baby]

24. Yay!

I like bacon...a lot. :9

[flvegan]

21. Childhood and teen memories.

If not for the cost of living and snow, I'd have never left.

[SoxFan]

25. Lots!

Fenway Park
Swan Boats
My family members in Somerville, Medford, Wilmington, Milford, Millis, Woburn, etc
Central Catholic High School in Lawrence
Sledding on the hill in the Wilmington town park
The Museum of Science
Downtown Salem at Halloween
The old mills in Lowell

[buzzycrumbhunger]

26. I was hoping for enlightenment

My daughter moved up there a couple months ago (who meets the love of their life on WoW, fer crissakes?) and has been miserable. The whole "winter" thing was cool for about 30 minutes (she'd never seen snow or hills before) and she's hardly left the house since, poor thing. I keep telling my little Floridian that spring will eventually come and make her realize winter was worth it, but she's not buying it and is working hard to convince her sweetie to move southward. Of course, he's making $17/hr and we have unemployment over 10% right now, with college graduates fighting for minimum wage jobs at half that rate. Much as it pains me to have my baby 1500 miles away, I think she needs to suck it up and stay put.

Anything to help me inspire her to tough it out? The accent doesn't do it for her at all (mkay, retahhded and pahstar are fun) and she doesn't do sports. She's in the Worcester area, if that helps.

[bicentennial_baby]

27. Being in Worcester's her problem, I hate that area

It's so soulless, imho. Can she get to the Boston area now and then? Or Western MA?

Trust me, once Spring comes, this state comes to life. It's beautiful April-October here. Winter is soon forgotten once the warm weather comes. :)

We tolerate the winters in exchange for 3 other glorious seasons. :)

[DS1]

28. I lived in Shrewsbury for 2 years and not one single damn time did I ever

have the desire to go into Worcester. A wretched place, it is.

[bicentennial_baby]

29. Yep, agreed.

I don't even like passing through that city. Yuck.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

32. Well, shithello.

You people aren't helping at all. ;) I don't think she's a big city kind of girl, though she was sick to death of having nothing to do here. We can't even find Chinese take-out on a holiday because everything shuts down once the old farts are tucked in after 8 or 9. . . She's not in Worcester specifically; just looked to me to be the nearest major town. I thought the photos from her BF looked promising (very lush and woodsy), but it sounds like the romance is the main thing sustaining her.

I just need to figure out where *I* belong (I don't think I could do real winters, either, though I grew up in the tundra of the Midwest) and maybe we can meet halfway. Problem for me is that every state with decent weather seems to involve inbred rednecks, bad accents, and a state income tax (nope, FL doesn't have one).

[edbermac]

30. Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Cape Cod, fall weather.

Winter sucks though. x(

[deoxyribonuclease]

31. Lots of educated people and educational institutions

[Fleshdancer]

33. I've never been, but...

when I do get a chance to visit, I know a few cool people in the Boston area to visit. :D

[1gobluedem]

34. Everything

I love that state.

[grilled onions]

35. The Song Massachusetts by the BeeGees

Never been to the east coast at all.

[bicentennial_baby]

36. there is such a thing?

:o

[Dystopian]

58. proof!

A bit before your time?;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4C6zkA7vGo
Sweet song...dippy gigantic turtleneck...everything just plain dippy!

peace~

[Redstone]

37. Well that, and my beloved Boston of course, and the Pioneer Valley.

Redstone

[yvr girl]

38. Crazy Boston drivers

Actually, they were a bit scary, but I loved Boston.

Besides, MA has a great bunch of DUers.

:hug:

[mainegreen]

39. They no longer exert fascist imperial control over Maine?

[Initech]

40. The Boston Beer Company

[BurtWorm]

42. Cape Ann, The North End, The T, Fenway Park, Provincetown,

The Boston music scene

[DS1]

43. NawShaw

[bicentennial_baby]

44. I'm in love with that last one...

I was going through your Flickr account this afternoon. I just adore that shot. :)

[crimsonblue]

45. I like the fact that I like Massachusetts. n/t

[Chan790]

46. Beer sales on Sunday.

Of course, getting caught bringing beer back across the CT/MA border is a good way to go to prison for 18 months or more. I've never done it...of course. :hide:

[Rhythm]

48. Marriage Equality!

There's lots else to like, but this one's the 'biggie' for me.

[KamaAina]

49. PBS affiliate WGBH

the source of much of the programming shown on PBS stations nationwide.

edit: spelling

[bicentennial_baby]

50. I did not realize that! I've grown up on WGBH!

Wicked cool. :hi:

[SergeyDovlatov]

51. Boston Tea Party!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

52. October

I was born and raised in a small Massachusetts town, moving to California a couple of weeks before my 16th birthday.

October was beautiful...crisp air, but warm enough for comfort. Colors that photographs and paintings just can't capture as well as the human eye.

If Massachusetts could somehow manage twelve months of October, I'd spend the rest of my life there.

As it stands, I couldn't handle the snow and cold of Winter, or the humidity and mosquitoes of Summer. If I ever get "filthy rich" I'll buy a "vacation home" in Massachusetts and spend every October for the rest of my life there.

:toast:

[WinkyDink]

53. Rockport, Newburyport, Cambridge. And the Celtics!

[yellowdogintexas]

54. Cambridge, Harvard Square, the T,

you don't need a car!
Italian Food
Is that little sub shop still on Mass Ave at the Law School Entrance to Harvard? Best freaking subs ever

museums
bookstores
Charles River

I lived there for 2 years and loved it

[tigereye]

55. my dad's from there, visits to Auburn and the Cape, the way people talk,

the Irish, Dropkick Murphys, great history....

[Zomby Woof]

56. Cradle of the American Revolution

Lexington and Concord, and the "shot heard 'round the world". The Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere, John Adams, and his cousin Samuel Adams. :patriot:

Speaking of Samuel Adams... another fine Massachussetts product:

[Dystopian]

57. Walden Pond...

:hi:
and Rietta Ranch...and soon to meet my first DUer!! :o :bounce:
I do speak to one on the phone...but have never met one for real, really!
Oh, and the new weed law.....:-)

peace~

[Brother Buzz]

59. Law offices of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe off Havard Square and Waldon Pond

Waldon Pond in the afternoon, at the far side where one encounters the most scholarly and enlighten people outside of the West Coast is well worth the visit. An afternoon spent sitting on the rocks listening to people exchanging ideas is, well, cool.

[underpants]

60. It's far away

[RushIsRot]

61. Henry David Thoreau

[GOPisEvil]

62. The Matcoms!

They were incredibly good hosts to me when I was there (Matt's drunken attempt at carbonara notwithstanding.)

There are lots of really, REALLY good people in MA. I wish I could see all of them more often.

[Tom Kitten]

63. I was born there

in Boston. I always thought it was a pretty cool state although I haven't been there for 35 years...

[Xipe Totec]

65. Check Mate!

Tough to top that one.

Hmmm...

How about...

[mdmc]

66. CREATIVE PITTSFIELD!

Anyone?