>>>>> "JG" == Joel Gwynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JG> When you get right down to it, this Boston "neighborhood" thing is JG> just confusing. I work in Dorchester but management likes to put JG> "Boston" on the stationary, which is confusing because there's an JG> identical address in Boston proper, just with a different zip code. JG> Are there any other cities that have similar naming schizophrenia? new york has it too. queens in particular is very large and composed of many neighborhoods and you use those names in the address and not queens. i don't know if there are duplicate streets and numbers like in boston. brooklyn on the other hand is considered one large city and you use brooklyn in the address. manhatten is addressed as new york, ny (so nice they had to name it twice!) even though it is only one of 5 boroughs of nyc. these oddities are from historical reasons where cities grew by incorporating neighboring towns and areas and they had to keep those older names to handle address duplications and conflicts. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
