Should Boston be included in the Northeast Megalopolis?

Do you think that Boston, as well as Providence, should be included in the Northeastern U.S. megalopolis, a conglomeration of metropolitan areas that have been said to have grown together to the point of interaction and connectivity?

The reason I ask this question is because unlike the spans between Washington and Baltimore, Baltimore and Philadelphia, Philadelphia and New York, the area between Providence and the area just east of New Haven CT is rural, an area about 60-70 miles long. Sure, there's the Groton/Mystic, CT areas, but it is small in the grand scheme of things. One might say that there is a gap between Baltimore and Philadelphia, but I would argue that that gap is much smaller, say only about 30 miles of rural area, enough to still say that it's the megalopolis.

So what do you think?>