You might not think the Fredericksburg region has any link to Boston, but it does.
Boston is the northern end of what urban scholars call the Northeast Megalopolis, a string of cities and dense suburbs along the Interstate 95 corridor that is home to about 55 million people, all living in about 2 percent of the U.S. land area.
Experts used to define this 500-mile corridor as ending in Washington, D.C. Nowadays, however, the end point is 50 miles south, in the Fredericksburg area, which has been growing rapidly for decades. Workers keep moving to the area, with most of them commuting to jobs north.
