Boston Local Custom Tips by saccharinicity

Pedestrians in Boston usually feel it is their god-given right to walk straight into traffic, and fully expect cars to stop. Even I started doing it after being here for a few years, but then I got hit by a car, so I stopped.

In all seriousness, if you are an out-of-towner driving in Boston, be very aware of your surroundings. The only time I see people really waiting for the walk sign is when they have a map in their hand.

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I hate to state the obvious, but many sports fans don't really act too intelligently, especially after drinking a lot. If you have the opportunity to be in Boston after a Sox game gets out (home or away), be prepared to hear screaming and chanting of "Yankees Suck!! Yankees Suck!!!" over and over and over and over again from fans that were either at the game or at a bar watching the game.

I think it is some odd sort of pack mentality.

Oh...and this happens no matter who we play.
They chant it while playing the Blue Jays...and it's an away game.

They actually even started doing it after I left a Tom Petty concert at the Tweeter Center (30 minutes from Boston) and everyone was walking back to their cars.

I can only shake my head.

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...from one of those "You know you're from _______ when:"... I listed the ones I found to be really helpful and true...
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-There are two State Houses, two City Halls, two courthouses and two Hancock buildings (one old, one new).
-Route 128 is also I-95. It is also I-93.
-The underground train is not the subway. It's the T and it doesn't run all night
-Back Bay streets are in alphabetical odda. Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth. So are South Boston streets: A, B, C, D.
-If the streets are named after trees you're on Beacon Hill.
-Avenues are properly referred by their nicknames: Comm Ave, Mass Ave., Dot Ave.
-Dot is Dorchester, Rozzie Roslindale, JP is Jamaica Plain.

-Don't call it Beantown.
-Don't sleep in the Common.
-Don't wear orange in Southie on St. Patrick's Day.

The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center is the South End, not to be confused with South Boston, which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End. Backbay was filled in years ago.

When we say _____, we mean:
-Bizah - odd
-Flahwiz - roses, etc.
-Hahwahya? - how are you?
-Khakis - what we staht the cah with
-Pissah - superb
-Retahded - silly
-Wikkid - extremely
-Yiz - you, plural
-Popcahn - popular snack

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