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Originally Posted by x0me880x
Thank you. The only bad stuff i've really read was on these boards. While deciding weather I was going to take the job or not, I had all intensions to look for housing in Worcester until I came here the other night. It is nice hearing good stuff about it though.
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I lived in Worcester for five years. I didn't leave it because I hated it, I just wanted to be nearer to my family and my husband was finished with his schooling.
We lived in the Webster Square area, actually west of it a bit, close to the liecester line, and that was fine. our side street was nice, the kind of neighborhood where there were tons of kids out at 7:30pm on Halloween (still miss that family atmosphere). Not bad.
Then we moved to Pleasant street, and by then our son was in school so he went to Flagg Street school, which is K-6 and I had no complaints there either. Pleasant street (that end) is very nice but of course it is a busy street.
We almost bought a house in Worcester (figured we had at least 5 years before our son even changed schools, and then if we didn't like his public we could send him to a private school), but like I said I wanted to get closer to my family.
I liked my time in Worcester.
I do have a funny story about bad neighborhoods, though.
My son didn't get the lottery for preschool so we had to wait to see what might be available if some people failed to register. So this guy tells me that there is space at Chandler (which was my 1st choice) and I confirm that this is the one across from Worc. State and he says yes.
Well to make a long story short, after being at the wrong open house for an hour and a half, I find that we are at the wrong Chandler, and the OTHER Chandler is down the other end of chandler street, in a pretty "bad" area--or so I thought. I drove down there, calling my husband in tears because I was so upset that I wouldn't be able to walk my son to school now, and because his school was in this "crappy" neighborhood. I was going to call the school dept and raise hell, but decided I better go visit first. The teachers there were so much nicer and better than the ones at the other Chandler. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. And the neighborhood wasn't that bad after all. Not an area where you want to take a sunday stroll, but it was doable in the end and because it was kind of an underprivilidged area, the preschool was much nicer. (not that I'd want my kid to stay at that school, mind you, the scores were in the dumps, but I loved the preschool)
Anyhow, if you have kids, just make sure that you speak to a realtor about what the neighborhood school will be, because you definitely want to be in a neighborhood with a good school.
If you don't have kids, then no worries, go for it, just make sure you live somewhere where you get your own parking spot because you do not want to participate in that shovel/dig/put a chair out/hope your spot/chair is still there when you get home/fight with the neighbor kind of scenario!!!
Btw, worcester has some great restaurants, and many international ones too!
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