quiz

You Might Be a Bostonian if.....
1) You think Green means go, Red means stop, and Yellow means floor it.
2) You believe that jaywalking is an unalienable constitutional right.
3) You know the difference between Boston Common and Boston Garden.
4) You call all public transportation everywhere "The T."
5) You have an inborn mistrust of New York City.
6) You unconditionally hate the Yankees.
7) You don't think the Kennedys have an accent.
8) You don't think you have an accent either - nor do you talk too fast.
9) You consider anywhere below NYC on a map The South and anything west of Rt495 The Midwest.
10) You'd call 55 degree weather warm.
11) You see nothing wrong with getting violent over a parking space when necessary.
12) Your small talk isn't about the weather, it's about how to get somewhere.
13) You have actually seen a one-way, dead-end street before.
14) You use lots of acronyms. (The BPL, MFA, JP, Mass Ave, BU, the T, etc.)
15) You would not swim in the Charles river - no matter how low the mayor says the e.coli count is.
16) You've ridden an electric bus for the simple purpose of getting somewhere.
17) You don't believe the Boston accent is lazy, or cutting people off in traffic is rude; it's just misunderstood Bostonian efficiency.
18) You can use "wicked" as any part of speech.
19) You consider an edifice old only if it predates John and Sam Adams.
20) You know that the real Sam Adams actually made lousy beer.
21) You believe that, someday, your children's children may rejoice over the end of The Big Dig.
22) You are suspicious about the West Coast.
23) You aren't bothered by such things as the fact that, in Boston, there are 2 Hancock towers and 4 Warren Streets.
24) You'd say that the best, most charming city in the USA is, of course, Boston.
25) You know that if you were really ever to "pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd," it would get towed before you could say "Fanueil Hall."

You Might Be A Bostonian If....
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