You could try Shaw's delivery. It's pretty low per month and probably better selection. Or potentially the What's Good app for local produce delivery, although the meat on there is a little pricey.

Ahh the app must have routed it from the Johnston location then. Not sure why it won’t let me order from there anymore. Thanks for the info!

This walmart isnt one of the super stores so they really dont carry much food that isnt a box or premade meal/cereal/snacks type thing. this is the closest walmart to me. I hate it.

I'll second the East Side of Providence as well! We lived right near Miriam Hospital for several years. The food is great and so much to do around you. However, our packages got stolen pretty regularly and cars parked in the driveway (other tenants') were broken into.

I like to swim at the Cranston YMCA or McDermott pool in Warwick. You can get discount YMCA memberships through AAA or your health insurance. AAA and a lot of health insurances participate in a program called Active and Fit.

Running groups look at ‘gansett run club on Facebook. They meet at the brewery once a week to run.

Cycling just look up bike shops most do group rides.

If you are looking for groups to train open water swimming facebook has 2 really good groups that I know of. Mackerel cove swimming and Georgiaville pond tri training group. Both have great people. If you are looking for Tri Training plans I highly recommend the TriDot app.

there is a big difference between being direct and aggressive or using a hard tone, and being triggered.

can you not tell these posters are angry and triggered that I confidently stated that PVD sucks for reasons they don't agree with?

screw all your other points why are you in the Providence subreddit of all places if you hate pvd so much?

They’re at 10 am and 1 pm Monday-Fridays! He leads tours on Wednesdays. If you’ve got a crew larger then 10 people, call ahead to request a slot.

I am not surprised that user JohnProvidence didn't have this experience or that the current users of a forum dedicated to Providence don't broadly think it sucks.

But that does not make those characteristic experiences, this is a very particular subset of people commenting on this forum in the first place. And I can assure you most folks who have moved away and wouldn't bother thinking about r/providence now or ever have some variation on my experience as opposed to yours.

Hope village is where I would recommend. When you looking to move?? I may have a lead for you. Should be available June or July 2023. 2 BR & office. First floor, 1 car garage parking & 1 car driveway. On site private laundry

Ok define city. Warwick and west Warwick are both in Kent and have comparable neighborhoods to providence? They both fall under providence's metro area so you could argue they're part of the city.

In general the areas to avoid would be the Olneyville/Manton/Atwells triangle. The areas around Charles, Douglas, branch, and lower part of Smith st. And the Lower south providence and Elmwood neighborhoods. Also the Upper cranston st area. Definitely avoid the areas around public housing. There are some nice parts of these especially in the Elmwood Lower south side so don't completely take them out of consideration. Olneyville is slowly being gentrified too.

The "good" areas are most of the east side, the west end, immediate dexter training ground areas and federal hill neighborhoods, upper Smith st along with the Elmhurst and Mt Pleasant neighborhoods along the north providence line. Silver lake and Washington park are ok.

I don't know what kind of crime filled city your gf thinks providence is but it's no where near comparable to parts of Philly, Bronx, Chicago, etc. No you won't get randomly stabbed, shot, kidnapped etc. Avoid problems and they'll avoid you. There's also crime hotspots even in the good neighborhoods, fox point iirc has the highest share of break-ins of all providence.

And since you work in the east side you should consider either Pawtucket and especially east providence. Easily take the Hendrickson bridge over and rent is alot cheaper too. EP as a whole is pretty nice

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/u48qqq/is_washington_park_a_relatively_safe_area_to_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/53v3u9/wondering_what_providence_is_like_for_mid_30s/

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/2xx0kl/relocating_to_providence_at_the_end_of_the_month/

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/nfq7lp/living_near_the_vavalley_area/

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/mn698j/apartment_hunting/

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/i114g2/advice_for_possibly_moving_to_providence/

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/fnvwta/safe_places_in_providence/

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>claims to trigger everyone

>is the one triggered

This is so dumb lol… I’ve lived ALONE as a young woman in Fox Point (probably one of the safer options) on a busy street for 6 years and have never had a break in of my car or home, or any sort of violent interaction. I love living here and I still would even if crime upticked a little bit.

OP is looking for safeish neighborhoods, and that’s what people are recommending. That said, +1 vote for Fox Point.

The North Providence Pool and Fitness Center is affordable for non-residents. It's the pool that the high school swim team uses to train. I was looking for a place to exercise a little while back and this was the cheapest and still clean and well maintained as far as I could tell.

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Man shut up. No one is “triggered.” Go jump in a lake.

I honestly don't think I've ever seen fresh produce at that walmart for the 8 years I lived over there. It's fairly limited on the fresh food as is so it wouldn't be shocking they sold out. Unless you mean raw meat, in which case that one also doesn't carry that outside of frozen products.

Elmhurst

Lol fuck up her life? I had a blast living in the city in my 20s. Think they’ll be okay.

Awesome, thank you!

Makes sense, thank you!

Love it, thank you!