Town

Downtown is the center of your town (i.e. Hingham Square; Hingham Center is something different); in town is Boston, and to the city is New York City.

Am I the only one who says up town? "Whea ya goin? Up town?

Its definitly In-town. I've lived in Quincy all my life and we've neva said to town....(e.g) "Whadda we gonna do tanight? I dunno let's go to a bah in town and get plastered!"

We always went to town (Boston) on the South Shore. The center is the center of the town you lived in - where the stores were.

always said town for boston in brookline. For our center of brookline, we say coolidge (as in coolidge corner).

There is no "to town" or "downtown", we're not rednecks or New Yorkers. If you go to Boston you go Intown

Oh yeah and if you are going to a town center you go to a square, a common, or a particular street

Ask me where I work and immediately I say, in town. No further explaination needed!

I grew up on the South Shore, Hull, and we always refered to whereever the summer people lived in the winter as "uptown." As in " I cahn't wait until Laybah Day so all of yoose will go back uptown." Maybe we just assumed they all lived in Boston.

I grew up in Andover, north shore/ merrimack valley and we always called it going into town its not just a south shore thing.

Proper Boston directionals:Down the CapeUp the State HouseIn Town (going to or located in Boston)Neigbhors of mine in Houghs Neck used to say this: Going up the Stoppy (traveling "up" to the center of Quincy to go to Stop & Shop)

It's not a South Shore thing only. In Somerville, we would go "in town" even if we could walk there.

Growing up in Subury, and now living in a suburb west of there, going to Boston has always been, and will always be "going in town". I agree with Jane, above: When asked where I work, I just say "in town" and everyone knows what I mean.

I grew up in Scituate and when we wanted to go to the town center it was "down the hahbah (harbor)". But that was where our town center basically was. Other people I know from other parts of Mass say to "go to the town center" as "go down town." But to go "in town" is to go to Boston.