Bedford must not be far from Provincetown.
By New England standards Bedford is pretty far from Provincetown, both geographically and culturally. Bedford, not to be confused with New Bedford, lies about 20 miles west of Boston and is the home of Hanscom AFB, headquarters for AF electronics command and, not coincidentally, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, and the former home of Raytheon Missile Systems (now in Tuscon). Hanscom has been cut back a bit, but the town still has something of military presence, and base housing extends beyond the boundary of the airfield. Bedford is a pretty button down suburban community.
Provincetown, on the very tip of Cape Cod, is a touristy old town, home to artsy types and Portuguese fishermen and tourist bars. Back in the day, around 1980, P-town bars, were about evenly split between gay and straight, and there was never any doubt about which was which. The gays were pretty much out of the closet and in your face, but they and the Guizzies lived in harmony with each other and the tourists. If you can take a live and let live attitude, P-town is interesting and worth a visit. BTW, it is invariably referred to as “P-town” by locals.