Getting Settled
This section is intended to provide basic information that should help to ease the transition into your new home. Welcome to Boston!
Random Facts About Boston
Dot is Dorchester, Rozzie is Roslindale, JP is Jamaica Plain, and Readville doesn’t exist.
The Harvard Bridge goes to MIT.
It’s the Sox, the Pats, the Seltz, and the Broons.
Route 128 is also I-95 and I-93.
Bostonians are directionally confused. Southie is South Boston. The South End is the South End. The North End is east of the West End. The West End is no more. Eastie is East Boston. The East End is Boston Harbor.
The Old Hancock Building Lights are actually a weather forecast.
“Steady blue, clear view.
Flashing blue, clouds due.
Steady red, rain ahead.
Flashing red, snow instead.”
The only exception is in the summer when flashing red means the Sox home game has been called off.
“London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Boston has
the CITGO sign.”
