darksideofthemoon131

darksideofthemoon131 t1_ixsohd9 wrote

Can we just start a seperate- "I'm moving to Worcester.....?" pinned thread? I've seen 5 of these posts today, which is fine- but maybe a question and information thread might help a lot of people with questions. We can have a different neighborhood thread's on each- etc. We can contribute info to it etc...

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darksideofthemoon131 t1_ixso9j5 wrote

Can we just start a seperate- "I'm moving to Worcester.....?" pinned thread? I've seen 5 of these posts today, which is fine- but maybe a question and information thread might help a lot of people with questions. We can have a different neighborhood thread's on each- etc.

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darksideofthemoon131 t1_ixf7ac2 wrote

World Market in Framingham

Wholesome Farmers Market in Barre

Weird and eclectic soda mix. Also check out the Asian Market near Mill Street, they have weird chips flavors- bet they have unique sodas.

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darksideofthemoon131 t1_ixewm8y wrote

The baseball stadium will likely not bring down property values or increase crime. Casinos typically bring property values down between -2 and -10%. Newer studies (most recently in MA) have shown that casinos can either raise crime rates or decrease them. It's a crap shoot.

I'd rather not take the risk.

For the record, I don't think the stadium will be a long term success. It's a novelty that will wear off soon. I hope they do add concerts and other non- baseball related events there to give non sports fans a reason to go and make the venue more multi-use.

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darksideofthemoon131 t1_ivuvtln wrote

Doesn't matter the restaurant- the big complaint was the games routinely killed business because there was no parking for customers and no one wants to pay 20 bucks to go have a drink.

The games bring 4000+ cars to the area. Where they all supposed to park? The lot owners and city capitalized on it, raised fees but then left no parking for anyone wanting to go to area to eat or drink.

They aren't gonna solve the problem by putting in more businesses when there is no available parking.

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darksideofthemoon131 t1_iu7l2n7 wrote

Being in Worcester, I've always considered us the beginning of Western MA. I drive west of the city and it starts getting very rural and the forests get more expansive. I drive east and it's more congested. Politically the state demographic changes about 2 towns over from Worcester as well.

Technically Rutland is the geographical center of the state (they have a tree that marks the center in town, worth the stop and picture) and I think that once you get 2- 3 towns west of Rutland you start the beginning of Western MA.

84 and the CT River are the best boundaries to really delineate where the west starts. The proposal to make WMA its own state always started at that marker.

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