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A short but incredibly annoying thing: people who think the phrase “East Coast” only applies to the states in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions. Y’all, if it’s a state that touches the Atlantic Ocean, the people who live there consider it to be on the East Coast. There is absolutely no way Bitty would ever think of his move to MA as “a move to the East Coast.” He already lived on the East Coast, he just moved further north.

A lot further north, actually. In case other people have the same problem I do with remembering how far north Massachusetts is, some perspective. When my parents lived in Boston for grad school, they used to split their drives to NC into two days by stopping to stay with my aunt and uncle in New Jersey. Because New Jersey is enough further south to make it a reasonable breaking point. O.O

Helpful driving times (excluding construction/traffic jams, which you’re pretty much guaranteed to hit around DC):

• Boston, MA to Madison, GA: 15 hrs 56 mins (I-95 w/tolls), 16 hrs 31 mins (I-85 w/o tolls)
• Providence, RI to Madison, GA: 15 hrs 23 mins (I-95 w/tolls), 16 hrs (I-85 w/o tolls)

(Originally posted on Tumblr, April 6, 2017)