A Massachusetts get to know you thread

[skippysmom]

Because we've all been complaining that this forum is boring, here are 10 random questions for you:

1. Where do you live?
2. How outrageous are housing prices in your town?
3. What do you do to pay the rent/mortgage? (read: what do you do for a living)?
4. How long have you been a Masshole?
5. Will Romney run again in 2006?
6. Who should the Dems run in 2006?
7. Can eastern and western Mass ever get along?
8. Who did you vote for in the March primary?
9. Be honest: do you think the Sox will win it all this year?
10. If they do win it all, will Massachusetts fall into the ocean?

My answers:
1. Hyannis, one of the seven villages of Barnstable, and according to rich Cape Codders, the source of all that is evil.
2. Pretty bad. We paid $205K in December 2002 for a small 2BR house that's nowhere near the ocean. Similar houses in our neighborhood are now fetching $240-250K a year and a half later. But I still get sticker shock when I see Boston prices.
3. Government bureaucrat (I coordinate a federal grant that's based at one of the state colleges.)
4. I'm from CT, and spent time in WI and upstate NY, and moved to MA a year and a half ago. I really like it here and would love to stay if the job situation allows it.
5. Probably, but I think he has higher aspirations.
6. I liked the Joe Kennedy suggestion someone put forth in another thread.
7. Probably not. Everyone I know in western Mass resents Boston, and everyone I know in Boston thinks western Mass is buffalo country.
8. Edwards. I knew Kerry would win but I wanted to see Edwards do well so he'll consider him for VP.
9. If they're going to win, this is the year. Next year you're looking at a changed team. Plus when you have Jesus playing CF, how can you lose?
10. Death and destruction everywhere. People who have been hanging on just to see the Sox win will finally die. And the riots will be insane.