Why do New Englanders like to re-use the same names so much?
An excellent question, and I would add "and why do they assume I'll know which Burlington they mean?" That was my most recent ambiguous reference, from someone who grew up in Connecticut but was discussing family plans that involved travel from Ontario. (In this case it didn't matter, so I didn't bother checking while she was dealing with rescheduling travel because of covid exposure.)
I've been, again, finding the limits of google and DuckDuckGo's assumption that I mean the Arlington or Burlington or Somerville... closest to where I'm sitting when I search for weather or library hours or any number of other location-specific things: depending on the thing I'm searching for, "Brighton" might get me this Boston neighborhood, or it might assume I want England. No, really, DuckDuckGo, Bostonians do drink tea.
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An excellent question, and I would add "and why do they assume I'll know which Burlington they mean?" That was my most recent ambiguous reference, from someone who grew up in Connecticut but was discussing family plans that involved travel from Ontario. (In this case it didn't matter, so I didn't bother checking while she was dealing with rescheduling travel because of covid exposure.)
I've been, again, finding the limits of google and DuckDuckGo's assumption that I mean the Arlington or Burlington or Somerville... closest to where I'm sitting when I search for weather or library hours or any number of other location-specific things: depending on the thing I'm searching for, "Brighton" might get me this Boston neighborhood, or it might assume I want England. No, really, DuckDuckGo, Bostonians do drink tea.