ah ok i drove down 20 when the bones were going up my aunt said distribution center so i assumed. at least that buildings getting some use i used to ride down the exempt tracks from near brookside to downtown. i didn’t know what the building was till i was older but it was vacant at the time and always kinda creeped me out lol idk why

where the rotary goes to main st there used to be a rail bridge they tore down trucks always getting stuck i rode over it a bunch towns always been shit but was fun as a kid on a bike

Would I live in Southbridge as a new grad who is renting? Sure.

Would I buy a house and put down roots? Absolutely fucking not especially if you plan to have kids in public school there.

Look in Sturbridge. We lived there. It's nice, a bit of a tourist spot in summer, but still a bargain compared to the town just northeast of Worcester that we moved to from Sturbridge.

ETA: You won't find a ton under 350, but some do come up.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/598-Main-St-Sturbridge-MA-01518/80873487_zpid/

wow, that's a shorter commute than I would have expected, from CT. good to know.

Yeah it’s the warehouse complex down by edwards gas and the rotary.

From what I’ve heard that Amazon facility isn’t going to employ all that many people. It’s a robotic sorting facility, supposedly. But it’s not going to get spun up for another couple of years or so

really lmao on east main i haven’t been down in a couple years i used to ride my bike past there as a kid is the whole thing being done? getting ready to house the consumer workers for the new amazon warehouse in charlton?

And they got that new apartment complex going in by the old AO building ☠️

Worcester thinks of Southbridge the way Boston think of Worcester. Mostly snobbery. Parts of Southbridge are a grubby, but it's mostly just "wrong side of the tracks" stuff. Find a nice street and you'll be fine.

Yeah it’ll never happen but it’s nice to think

it’s been like that for sooooo long hot summer days down wind brookside terrace 🤣

It's not the best town in the area, no.

It's not like rampant crime, but it's pretty lame and scummy in a lot of areas. But it's no worse than most cities/towns people tell you to stay away from.

There was a pretty decent French restaurant there, not sure if it's still open

Edit: typo

Yeah. Like I said it’s a tough job with no funding. I wish the town would put some more money into the place. Covered clarifiers, air filtration, additives to the process, all solution, all are expensive.

I meant that you don’t smell that compost very much on-site, the smell is most acute across the river at big y. Still smells there for sure

Was in the same situation. Bought a house in Thompson CT. Way more bang for your buck with home buying. Taxes are high but was able to have a house built brand new for cheaper than some of Massachusetts outrageous prices on old houses.

The wife and I still commute to Worcester for work everyday. I have a 30min ride, hers is 35.

He is in Shrewsbury k

Well I’ll disagree with you there, many treatment plants perform odor control and don’t smell nearly that bad. Inside the plant? Yeah sure stinks a little. An 1/8-1/4 mile from the plant? That’s unsat. And I’m talking I’ve worked at deer island in Winthrop and you can’t smell the plant if you’re in the parking lot of the place

The plant isn’t whimsical per se but instead of odor control units they replaced a conveyer belt with a screw conveyer and dump truck system for dewatered sludge. So now instead of replacing bearings and fixing the damn belt every few weeks, they have to empty this dump truck every 2 hours while running the centrifuge. Seems like there could have been a better upgrade but Southbridge went with the absolute cheapest contract bidder like usual.

The funny part is the sewer plant doesn’t smell any worse than any other sewer plant in the world. All that nasty compost smell gets blown over to big y!

Probably. I just want to know why it's pretty much due West of Northbridge.

Lol yeah ok. Worcester is the second best city in Mass

I'm really curious what a whimsical sewage plant project looks like.

I worked in Southbridge for about 9 years ending around 7 years ago. It's nowhere near as bad as people say it is, I never felt in danger walking around there. However the people I worked with who had kids in the school system would tell you not to send your kids to the public schools in town.

I'd still recommend looking elsewhere first.

no kids, so that's not a concern.

I don't think the people who badmouth Southbridge know what a bad city looks like. They were saying the same shit about Worcester, right up until the housing market exploded. If shit keeps trending this way, Southbridge could be the next to get gentrified. It's already started in Athol and Gardner!

Yeah exactly. Every time I’m down at the BigY plaza I am appalled at the smell. Especially the thought of going to get pizza or McDonald’s with that smell!

Out of sight out of mind right. You’d think that awful stink would get people talking about funding but no.