Wow this is getting around. This issue spawned from a Reddit post on the Boston subreddit

[ColinC]

Reddit encouraged him to go to the news. Hopefully Massachusetts makes it so this doesn’t happen again. It’s mostly a dumb rule -save for the few folks that don’t register solely so they can claim out of state residence and taxes while still living in the state.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/11xsve9/update_after_visiting_boston_in_october_the_rmv/