Call him provincial, but...

The Somerset Club, on Beacon Street, Boston, remains a center of Boston Brahmin life.

“Boston is a good place to live in, taken all in all. Probably the best place in this neurotic world, with the possible exception of London, although I am not even sure about this. At any rate, it is the only place I care to live in.

— From The Late George Apley, by John P. Marquand (1937). This novel in the form of a memoir is a satire of Boston Brahmin (WASP upper class) life in the first part of the 20th Century.