Originally Posted by karthik

This is highly dependent on traffic of course. Your 1 hour drive could easily be a 2 hour drive. If you're trying to fly in for an early meeting or leave around rush hour in the evening, you do not really want to be going to PVD or MHT. The Big Dig has alleviated this somewhat, but it can still be a mess (even just coming from BOS; but you have the advantage of public transportation there if the roads are busy. Commuter rail will eventually extend to PVD but not for many years.) Anyways, both airports are indeed a pleasure to fly through. Flown out of PVD quite a few times, MHT very rarely (I'm on the South Shore so PVD is closer.) Never flown WN from either of them since I avoid WN so I can't comment on that... but I'm guessing the majors are fare-matching in some sense.

Though I just realized the OP is relocating from BOS and not to BOS so he's probably well aware of the traffic issues.