<p>Do the two regions feel significantly different? What are the main differences? Culture? Hospitality? Weather?</p>
<p>I would say they dont’ feel that different, aside from the weather issue between say, DC and Boston.</p>
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<li><p>Whenever it snows in DC, people panic and everything closes. If you are from New England, you should not attempt to drive in the snow in the DC area even though you know how. The problem is that nobody else knows how. They will skid right into you.</p></li>
<li><p>The pizza in New England is infinitely better. People in the DC area don’t know what real pizza tastes like. Some of them even think that the Sbarro’s stuff is the real thing.</p></li>
<li><p>New England is old. The area is crawling with fascinating history and with old houses that are falling apart. In contrast, much of the area around DC was farmland until very recently, when the farmers sold their land to developers who built vast quantities of office buildings, shopping centers, and housing developments, all of which look exactly alike. The main advantage of the newness of the DC area is that the roads in most places are excellent, with multiple lanes, turn lanes, good signage, etc. The disadvantage is that the newer DC suburbs are kind of lacking in soul. It takes time to develop soul.</p></li>
<li><p>In the DC area, there are actually shopping centers that do not contain a Dunkin Donuts.</p></li>
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<p>There is a big difference in diversity. The DC area is unbelievably diverse. The Boston area isn’t. Boston has some enclaves of diversity, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>The roads are terrible in the DC area. You dont know what your talking about.</p>
<p>They were originally windy farm roads not meant for the large boom of people coming to the area. I am speaking for Maryland not Virginia.</p>
<p>I can name one large road that has more than 2 lanes in my whole county.</p>
<p>I grew up in NJ and live in Mass. I find it funny/sad that once again, someone says “New England” and everyone else immediately says “Boston”. What about Vermont, Maine, Connecticut? Even western Mass? </p>
<p>I find that the mid-Atlantic is heavily dominated by NYC. The city is so overpowering that its influence is felt to the far burbs of CT and NJ. I went to college in Eastern PA, and there were more NJ kids there than PA kids! And virtually all the NJ kids were from NYC burbs. Top 3 states at my college: NJ, PA, NY. </p>
<p>Boston’s reach is more limited. When we first moved to a town 20 miles from Boston, I was surprised at how different it was culturally from the NJ Burb I grew up in. Much more of a small-town feel to New England. Even Boston feels much smaller and more personal than NYC. I much prefer New England, but that is a personal preference.</p>
<p>Can’t speak to DC, never lived there or went to school there, sorry.</p>
<p>You are both right about the roads, in my opinion. They are pretty good around the newer, built up areas. However, there are plenty of country backroads. I’ve been lost in Montgomery, Howard, and Prince George’s Counties a number of times.</p>
<p>They may not know how to drive in DC when it snows, but in my experience, no one in Boston knows how to drive at all. Boston drivers have perfected the “left hand turn from right hand lane” maneuver.</p>
<p>^hah! yes…</p>
<p>as far as the virginia, maryland, dc area, northern va and central maryland all mesh into “dcbaltimoremetroish”. the whole dc vibe with politics, etc., really rubs off over here, as a LOT of people work for the government. in fact depending on who i’m talking to i say i’m from dc or baltimore. haha. i would say the midatlantic is more diverse racially, too. there are some old areas for sure, but they are more tourist destination type…a lot of it is new identical suburbs plopped on top of farmland. and some of it is very rich. mmm, bethesda. and even in the richer areas you’ll still see a lot of ethnic diversity.</p>
<p>plus, it’s warmer :).</p>
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<p>New England is much nicer.</p>
<p>For example, the most educated state is Connecticut, followed by Massachusetts. The states that have the best public school systems are Connecticut and Vermont. The healthiest states are also mostly in New England.</p>
<p>just go somewhere in upstate NY and you can kind of get a blend of the two</p>
<p>I currently live in (on?) Long Island, NY. From what I’ve seen of the D.C./Baltimore area (my grandparents live there) it is much more ethnically diverse. Some of the newer areas are very modern and also again have a lot of diversity because it has newer residents. Both D.C. and Baltimore are developing really fast. Baltimore has a very nice, kinda small town feel to it, compared the NYC. NYC has a very big town feel to it. It is hard to have a “campus” life there and most of the time college students just go to bars to hang out. There is also a lot of development going on in the suburbs of NYC (Long Island, NJ), in NJ there is a lot of Indians and Asians but on LI, there is a lot less depending where on the island. As you go more out east there is less and less diversity (Stony Brook being the exception). If you are going to college on LI, expect to go to NYC a lot of the weekends lol. Anyway, thats my input on mid atlantic vs. NY. :)</p>