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when i was visiting family recently i realized that one of the biggest differences between Texas and MA is that MA has sooo many towns and cities. i drive through like 4 towns in 20 minutes just on my way to work. in Texas you can drive for two hours and still be in San Antonio somehow
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QuiJohn
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My favorite in MA is entering the same town multiple times while on the same road, drives my Midwest wife batty ๐
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Just some guy, you know?
@infinite-loopy.bsky.social
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Texas compounds this by always building OUT instead of UP. If you are a small town on the edge of a big city and do not have your incorporation paperwork done properly, the big city WILL come and "eminent domain" your ass into oblivion
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c0nc0rdance
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East Texas is a bit more like MA, but scaled way down. Like you can drive for 3 hrs and pass through little rural farming communities that are basically a stop sign, a Dairy Queen, and a post office. Central Texas was shaped by empresario grants, with little dense cultural enclaves far apart.
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Ken Lowery
@kenlowery.bsky.social
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my wife grew up in Connecticut and she talked about her town being "rural" and her home being a farmhouse, and i thought that meant Texas-style rural. no, you could throw a rock from her yard and hit the neighbor quite easily. just town after town after town. but no pizza delivery?
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John OโDonnell
@jodami.bsky.social
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Massachusetts, itโs the English America. Donโt have a town further away than a reasonable horse ride from another.
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Dr. Stephanie
@punkrockscience.bsky.social
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New England has so many towns because all the early settlers hated basically everyone else, so their solution to any disagreement was โfuck you, Iโll make my own town thenโ. For efficiency, they only moved far enough away to glare back at the last guys (and have to clear minimal trees.)
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WalkingTaako
@walkingtaako.bsky.social
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You can do the same thing in Manhattan!
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Cris (without an H)
@ambignostic.bsky.social
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okay this reminds me of one of my favorite jokes. [Texas rancher] I can step out of my house, get in my pickup, drive for an hour, and still not have left my land [Oklahoma farmer] I had a truck like that too
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It's Steven
@deusexjuice.bsky.social
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I drove north of Lubbock and was somehow in San Antonio
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Kerry Spicer
@kerryspicer.bsky.social
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Driving from Fort Worth to Galveston, half the trip is through Houston.
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Graham W. Jenkins
@grahamj.bsky.social
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Leaving Massachusetts was such an eye-opening experience for me. What do you mean, "unincorporated county land?" How is it possible to not be somewhere?
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@brofessornick.bsky.social
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Meanwhile Philly people will go down to the mat over whether some place 15 minutes from center city is Philly or not, out west thatโd still be โdown town.โ
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shivana
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i grew up in connecticut and my californian friends always roast me (deserved lol) when i'm like hey i'm visiting LA maybe i can drive by SF to visit more of you and they're all like lmao drive a plane
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Paul Fenton
@paulfenton.bsky.social
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I have absolutely driven through Boston for two hours but for different reasons ๐
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TaoOfTweet (and I'm sticking to it)
@starfisher.bsky.social
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No โcounty landโ in MA.
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Jamaila Brinkley
@jamaila.bsky.social
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This is one of the things I like best about the east coast. I grew up in eastern WA, where you had to drive 6 hours to get to a city in the same state. Drive 6 hours from where I live in MD and youโve gone through 6 states and hit up DC AND NYC.
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Sum FatKid
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In the 6 stoplights between me and Philadelphia, you pass through like 5 โboroughsโ. Itโs like they made towns out of โsome dudes farmlandโ.
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@petestaiano.com
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DARRR YOU EASTERNERS ARE ALL THE SAME IโM ORIGINALLY FROM NEW YORK BUT I CURRENTLY LIVE IN NEW YORK SO I GUESS IโM JUST AN ADOPTED NYโER
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swamp tit cattybog
@cattybog.bsky.social
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I learned from visiting Texas only two times to never trust the estimation "just down the road"
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Chad Scherrer
@cscherrer.bsky.social
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Southern Indiana is like that too, so many little towns. One of the weird things when I moved to WA was how you'd get out of town and have nothing for the next 100 miles
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Seth D. Michaels
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I grew up in semi-rural (now very suburban) PA near the MD/DE border and, depending on the route, going to the grocery store could involve crossing two state lines the scale of Texas is still hard to contemplate to me
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No Particular Dave
@daveexmachina.bsky.social
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my ex-wife almost got a job in Lubbock, where you have to drive 2 hours just to get to the interstate where you can then start going somewhere else
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Mike Timonin
@bookreadingguy.bsky.social
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Partly that's because MA has been settled by Europeans for longer than Texas, and partly it's because if you moved far enough away from a town that you couldn't reasonably get to church on Sunday, you built a new town with a new church, because not going to church on Sunday was unthinkable.
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clรคrk
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when I drive to Austin, the first 75 minutes is all Houston. I go 70 miles up 45 and out 290 before seeing a town named Waller
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Ill Topo
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texas builds shit too far apart imo. gotta drive 20 miles to take a piss
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Gale Has a Point
@ohnoyouwint.bsky.social
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Florida is like Texas in that. Not as sparse Iโll bet. Another difference I notice: places that developed before the highway system have lots of locally owned businesses, but Florida is all natโl and internatโl chains. Is Texas like that?
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