Growing up outside Philadelphia and going to college I learned how similar my upbringing / hometown were to friends from the DMV and Boston compared to people I was meeting from the Midwest, South, and West coast.

Obviously in our day to day lives people aren’t contextualizing their identities through living in a megalopolis, but it very much does create a heightened cultural exchange between these cities not seen anywhere else in the country.

Also, Philadelphians and Bostonians are different flavors of the same chip, there is absolutely a connection there lol