#boswash

[mapsontheweb]

Population Distribution in the BOSWASH Megalopolis

[cacodaemonia]

Okay yeah, the Boswash (apparently it's a term for Boston-Washington?) and Northern New England labels are weird???? I lived in what is apparently "Boswash" for 22 years and have never seen or heard the term before XD And I think if you told anyone from Massachusetts (or at least eastern Mass), Connecticut, or Rhode Island that they don't live in New England, they'd have some choice words for you XD

[girinma]

why people surprised Nikki Haley doesn’t know about the civil war. shes from South Carolina. that’s what they teach here.

[krinsbez]

Random Thought (if you know you, you know)

Imagine, if you will that it is the late 1990s. A major city in the BosWash Conurb (say, Boston, or Philadelphia, or Baltimore; probably not NYC) has in the last year experienced:

-a major viral outbreak

-a bioterrorism attack

-a freak earthquake that is 9.6 on the Richter scale, with over a million casualties.

How much would it cost to get this city back on it's feet and can the USA afford not to?

[manorpunk]

we tried to form Boswash back in 205X but it immediately dissolved. turns out trying to make all of the worst cities in America fit under one roof doesn’t work very well. philly’s still on fire :/

[spacelazarwolf]

Weird beef: someone here blocked me because they refused to believe "Boswash" is a word. It's not common, but, like, you can just Google that.

i advocate for using the blog button liberally but that is a very liberal use of the block button.

[transit-fag]

do you guys have any sleeper trains like not as in your multi day things like the zephyr... a boswash sleeper train would fucking own

Proper Sleeper cars are only available on Long distance routes. We do however have trains at night that you can sleep in if you want to. The Northeast Regional actually has incredibly cheap fares if you schedule at night.

[enfranchisement]

apparently i live in a region of the US called "boswash" and i have never ever heard or read that word before in my almost 24 years. is this a term regularly used outside of the "boswash" region

[battenthecrosshatches]

BOSton-WASHington?

This was also my first thought, but why would you name multiple states after two cities? You would think New York etc would be upset.

[monopeptide]

ok from googling I learned that “boswash” refers to the Boston-Washington corridor which is so fascinating to me. who refers to that specifically unless you’re taking amtrak

[harvvdent]

Just a heads up, no one from the Northeast ever calls it “BosWash” and most the states you included in it would never lump themselves in with each other as a culture

no don't worry i know this from the 394839483 people calling me a bitch and the anon hate i got this morning, you're the only person politely pointing this out so have a blessed day tho stay safe out there

[roccobears]

I love looking through the tags on that “where would you want to live if you had to live in United States” post and being able to find every other Buffalonian because we’re all complaining that the map put us in BosWash and not Great Lakes

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

I’ve lived in Connecticut my whole life and apparently Connecticut is part of a thing called Boswash, which is a term i’ve never heard in my 41 years on this earth. But apparently it’s the area from Boston to Washington DC bc it’s like a metropolis or sth. Idk, i feel like Western Mass and Connecticut shouldn’t be included. Connecticut’s biggest cities are like Hartford. New Haven, and Bridgeport probably. And none of them are that big in comparison to Boston, NYC, Washington DC, etc.

Anyways, I still consider myself to be a

🍁🌳🦞❄️ New Englander ❄️🦞🌳🍁

[polygondotcomvideoproducer]

boswash is also called the northeast corridor, its the area with boston, nyc, philadelphia, baltimore, and washington dc and surrounding areas. its short for boston/washington because those are the two cities at either end of it

That makes a lot of sense, seems real obvious now u mention it

[manorpunk]

A Brief Materialist History of the Former US in the Mid-21st Century

2030s: the Polycrisis. Unresolved issues of climate and pollution cause more and more intense natural disasters, which wipe out swathes of vital but poorly-maintained infrastructure. The US federal gov't is too hollowed-out at this point to fix anything, and the tangle of middlemen contractors responsible for actually building and repairing that infrastructure all try to deny responsibility, causing a massive growth spurt of federalism as state governments are forced to step in and try to put out the literal and metaphorical fires. All this embarrassing chaos tarnishes the US's economic reputation of stability, causing a feedback loop of economic contractions as more and more foreign investors pull back from US investments, causing stock market drops which make even more investors panic and pull back, etc. The decade ends with the signing of the Qingdao Accords, a sort of reverse Marshall Plan where the newly-formed Global Logistics Network pours money into infrastructure projects in exchange for creating their own tangle of middlemen contractors. The signing of the Qingdao Accords is generally taken as the end of the Second Cold War with a Chinese victory.

2040s: the Sheriff's Insurrection. A loose alliance of small-town sheriffs (as well as small-business tyrants, conspiracy theorists, retvrn types, and various opportunists, all collectively referred to as 'Sheriffs') resist the "Chinese takeover of America" in a 21st century version of the evergreen landowners-vs-industrialists conflict. They are quickly fought off by GLN-hired paramilitary forces (the same forces will go on to form the Surplus Young Men, an Armored Core/Outer Heaven style 'security force' which is technically unaligned but everyone knows they're cashing GLN checks). The Sheriffs flee to the Midwest, creating a decentralized zone of tiny feuding principalities derogatorily dubbed ‘the manors.’ Other former US states begin to unite into new regional nations - Boswash, California, Cascadia, Texaplex, and the Great Lakes Republic. These new nations actually seem like they might be here to stay, but with much less ability to go sticking their nose in the rest of the world's business, and the decade ends with a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, China’s victory in the Second Cold War proves to be a Pyrrhic victory as the death of Xi Jinping (probably of natural causes but who knows) allows the GLN to balloon in wealth and influence. The CCP takes a sharp nationalist turn, re-branding itself as the Chinese China Party and turning party politics into a game of who can dunk on Americans the most.

2050s: Things are… good? The GLN is delivering on their promise of a new economic order, an automated and algorithmic 21st century market socialism with an infrastructure-based middle class of technicians, data analysts, and civil servants. There's still a global underclass of cheap mobile labor to actually go out to the middle of nowhere and build all this stuff but, y'know, it's a smaller global underclass. The manors calm down a little as the GLN supports the formation of autochthonous American nations: the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota and Dakota in the Midwest and the Diné Nation in the southwest, along with the progressive majority-black government of Piedmont in the Atlantic South, make it feel like we might be doing something about that whole ‘foundational white supremacy’ thing (The GLN was, of course, happy to take credit for solving racism forever). The GLN gets to claim even more PR victories as various post-colonial regions peacefully unify as ‘leagues,’ EU-style intra-national coalitions that work together on economic on diplomatic matters while letting individual states largely manage their own affairs. The US nations start to wonder if it might be time to form a league of their own. (Incidentally, by this point the EU has split apart into Frankistan and Mitteleuropa, Spain has exploded again, and Punished Britain is not coping well with their fall from grace.)

2060s: Who knows? Things start getting tense as the global construction boom slows down and the money-hose starts to dry up. 'Minor' regional problems and potential long-term issues are swept under the rug because "we’ve got a good thing going here, don't fuck this up," and the once-radical new visions for the world are already beginning to seem calcified and sclerotic. The newly-formed American League is poised to be little more than a rubber stamp for GLN policy… or is it?

[actualmichelle]

Apparently boswash is Boston Washington and refers to the areas between them?

that is so weird!! It makes me feel like there's no other distinguishing feature of the area besides the general sense of panicked malaise and anger that permeates the northeast.... oh to be the 'Great Lakes' or simply 'Florida' woe

But thank you for the info! :)