Ha, speaking of Boston, this reminds me of an anecdote.
When I was living in Tokyo, a friend of mine was getting married and he invited friends of his from the US. I was in charge, with another friend, of guiding them in Tokyo from the wedding location to the "after party" bar. We told them "it's a bit of a walk, would you rather take the subway?" to which they replied "we're from Boston, we can walk".
After 10 minutes, they were complaining about their feet, the heat, and the distance.
I don't know what's special about Boston or why they thought they can walk better than other people in the US, but from the Tokyoite perspective, we weren't really impressed :)
It was a 20~30 minutes walk, by the way.