Yeah. Can’t count the number of times when I was a kid that the bear was stolen and restored. Every college kid in Worcester must have stolen it at some point.

I went to college with a guy that climbed up on the roof with a buddy of his and stole the bear. Eventually the cops found him and he had to do some community service.

Agreed, IDK why it sounds better when you say it

I always wave!

Food scene in Worcester is legit. Vietnamese, East African, Dominican, there's lots to try and new things popping up regularly.

Culture is super vibrant and many universities as well bringing in young people all the time.

Public transport is not that great. Basically bus and commuter rail heading outside Worcester.

Overall city is very friendly and a good variety of different types of housing. I'd visit a couple times to see what areas resonate with you the most.

Orson is one of the oldest mascots still in use from the early 1900s. Mostly because its not outdated yet.

I always wave at Orson

Lol young professionals. Fancy way of saying you think your job is better than a blue collar worker

Well it’s time to vote her out. That’s totally disrespectful.

Any dog has the ability to kill, maim, or otherwise attack someone. Any dog. The highest likihood to bite is actually chihuahua and dachund, Dalmatians are more dangerous than they are typically perceived as as well. Her death, while tragic, was ruled accidental for a reason. Shit happens, it's horrible but it does. Cocker Spaniels have even caused a fatality in I think 2020. Dogs are animals, and a product of their training and environment, breed matters far less than training and upbringing. People have unfortunately been training and abusing pit-like dogs for years, which creates an overprevalance of behavior issues like bites because they are the most likely to be put in those situations by their owners.

I kn9w his name is Orson, but I said that because I'm busy doing other stuff, lol

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His name is Orson

Who Dat a saints fan?

Worcester has a lot of restaurants, especially along Shrewsbury street, downtown, and in the canal district around Kelly Square and the streets north of it (and a bit south too).

We have a few areas that are lower income, some higher, like any city, but it's pretty intermixed and spotted across a bunch of areas in the city. Best bet is unfortunately to look at crime data on sites like Zillow, and consider that most of the heavier density of issues while they tend to have more crime that does not mean they're nessicarily unsafe, we've had a lot of catalitic converter thefts that are skewing the map a bit.

The bus system is free through this year iirc, but we're fighting to keep it beyond that. The WRTA is a hot-mess right now, they're blaming it on drivers taking too much FMLA but they should at this point have been able to correct for it. They've cut routes on Fridays affecting 1000's of riders due to the supposed shortage. On top of that, they run pretty infrequently anyway, and it can take an hour or more to get really anywhere in the city if you have to transfer at the hub. I like to call it a hub and spoke model, without the wheel, because other than the umass university hospital stops, most of the routes do not loop back to re-combine in areas apart from the hub downtown.

The commuter rail from Union Station is going under an upgrade to add a second platform, this hopefully also is a prelude to the continuation of the line towards Springfield. There's supposedly wifi on the trains, but that's generally a lie. They run at decent times, which will probably improve when the 2nd platform opens.

As for where folks hang out, it depends on what you like to do, wrestling and comedy are popular things, so are some bars, do you have any particular preferred methods of hanging out and meeting folks where you currently live?

Worcester is a great city. I’m from/grew up here. My wife is a transplant. Heading to bed now but I will reply with more tomorrow.

Well fuck I guess I'll delete my post since you disagree.

"Young professional" is what college educated white-collar/upper-middle class calls themselves. Because "white collar" carries a negative connotation with it these days in post white-flight cities.

The upper class and upper middle class are tired of living in the suburbs and want a taste of city life (mostly so they can get shit faced with eachother exclusively in some upscale city restaurant without the long drive home)

Normally I am ok with anybody living anywhere, but when white collars move back into the city, it drives the rent up and forces everyone else deeper into poverty or homelessness.

I whole heartedly disagree with everything this person has to say, just my opinion. I went out just this past weekend and went to a bunch of bars that were packed with young people enjoying the Celtics game and just having a great night altogether. Had no problems whatsoever and the above doesn’t reflect how I perceive Worcester at all.

Worcester gets a bad rap, it’s getting much better. Real estate is starting to rise which reinforces that the city is growing. Hope you make it out here for a visit and see for yourself!

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What’s the difference between young professionals and other 28 year olds?

Like, what do you do differently?

But she WILL win.

Or watching you get broke backed by local policemen as you live stream on your only-fans site and post the link to your venmo account.

say's you