info on Springfield, MA (Boston, Amherst: crime rate, house, transfer)

[someone32]

OK FROM READINVG ALL THE RESPONSES IM PRETTY SURE YOU WILL NOT MOVE TO SPRINGFIELD, BUT JUST IN CASE IM SURE THIS WILL CLOSE IT UP. oK imm 13 years all (a kid i knmow) and my family and i moved here to sattle down for everybodys convinience specially since we have a 2year old sister AND ME GOING TO HIGH SCHOOL AND A OLDER SISTER 17 IN HIGH SCHOOL. And im want to get out of here im and all a student respectfull etc and i know that springfield has nothibng to offer me.. yes there are nice and good people in this areamy teachers.. my family my neighbors ( thats because i live in a nice part in it ) but school wise not so good its jut kids here have a close mind they fight i just dont get it they say they want a good life but dont work for it now not all kids are bad my class for example i love them they dont like much trouble . however i fear that once in high school they will get contamiinated with they ways of many

I cant tell you nor anybody in here can tell you if this will change , but i wouldnt take a chace i love my little sister a comparison to your little kid , i wouldnt want to take chances or her?him because one cant change the way they grow up to be. Right now im filling applications to boarding schools i love my family and friends but thats how much i dont want to be here my frends are good but i know its not a friend that could kill me when im walking down the street downtown (bad) coming from extracurriculars necessary to get into a good university . In other words dont move here you can do better than springfield best of lukc to you dont let other people get you into it like they did to my family ( men why didnt we just move to pensilvania ) because once you are traped reality can and will hit you faster and stronger than you can think

[committed]

It makes me sad and tired to see the comments on this thread. Springfield is a city in need, just like many others. I've lived here for 5 years, I moved here by choice and I love my life here. I don't know what I'd do if my life consisted of moving from one place to the next to avoid the great unknown. To pursue safety, comfort and only what's "best" for me. If you like living around people who are just like you socio-economically, racially, religiously, ethnically, politically, then don't move to Springfield. You'll just make it painful for those of us here who value its diversity and want to invest in a community that needs investing in. What do you suggest we do with this city of numerous problems? Should everyone with means desert the city? How about gates and fences so we can tell our neighbors exactly what we think of them? We could all segregate ourselves and never be challenged to think about people in circumstances different than our own. If you're looking for a city that you can receive from and never give to, Springfield isn't it. If you want to be part of an urban renaissance, we'd be glad for the help. Providence did it, Hartford is working on it. Springfield is on its way. April 28th is the citywide clean up event which is part of Keep America Beautiful. A great step towards making our city even better!

[committed]

I agree with Hoop city! All urban areas have their good and their bad. Springfield is a great urban center-its no New York or Boston-but a fine place to live. The concentration of poverty does contribute to its problems with crime, but that is because Springfield takes care ( or does its best to ) of its own poor and the homeless and disenfranchised of the entire Western Mass region. If all the towns in Western Mass were economically diverse, many of the problems of Springfield would be different. Maybe then our biggest concern would be whether we choose Venti or Grande....

[WestMass79]

Springfield is a great place to be. It needs help with the schools, if you have kids above the elementary school age you'll probably want to send them private.

If you don't have kids, pick a neighborhood, there's plenty of good ones and great investments that you will find nowhere else around Western Mass. IF you want to overpay for a tiny ranch in the suburbs, go for it, but if you really want something special don't overlook what a real city has to offer.

[Noodle]

I work in and drive around springfield all day long. It's a toilet full of turds. Full of filthy parasitic dirtbags with one thing on their mind and thats crime. Get real.

[Massquatch]

My wife was transeferred out to Springfield a few years ago (thankfully she's since left). She did a little looking around online for some information. Crime is pretty bad, poverty is as well. Shortly after she got there, there was a news report that Springfiled is in the top ten cities in the country as far as crime goes. I believe it ranked just above South Central Los Angeles. I hear what people are saying about bashing Springfield, but I dont see it as bashing, its telling the truth. I live in Southbridge, and people say negative things about the town all the time. Why? Becasue its true. I dont know what can done to fix Southbridge, or Springfield for that matter. The sad thing is, once an area gets a bad reputation, its sticks with them,and even seems to attract more of a bad element. It a shame, but its the truth, not bashing.

[WestMass79]

As someone who has both lived in the suburbs and now in Springfield, I can say I really enjoy living in Springfield. I liked living in the suburbs too, it's all about what neighborhood you live in and the home you pick, no matter what city or town you go to. But posts like "toilet full of turds" should be ignored and deleted.

[bootyliciouse]

u know what i live in springfield and is not bad out here is nice i live up forest park and I'm loving every minute of being in this area.some parts are bad and some are good it depends on were u live but is nice and quite thank god for that.

[bootyliciouse]

u know that holyoke was pretty bad.no no really bad and then they all started moving 2 springfield now u know that everyone in Holyoke is in springfield know.now people want 2 move back 2 Holyoke or move some were were there is no violence.but every were u go there is always something wrong right.

[missionhill]

Lots of hateful and spiteful comments here--you know when people write stuff like that it's really about them and their feelings and the opportunity to say something negative in an anonymous atmosphere. It has almost nothing to do with what they're supposedly talking about. Anyway, they used to call Springfield the City of Homes, and still today it has miles of wonderful mostly Victorian frame houses, many with wraparound porches and lots of windows to let the light in. The nicest neighborhoods are around Forest Park -- very old-fashioned neighborhoods with treelined streets with sidewalks, churches and synagogues, a magnificent city park, people out walking around on a spring evening enjoying the city... Here you can walk or take buses, reducing your environmental impact. You can pick up a house in Springfield for a song, compared to costs in the Boston area, and that's why sooner or later Springfield will come back. I think Hartford has a longer haul, despite its bigger downtown and tax base and state-backed redevelopment efforts; Hartford doesn't have the housing stock to attract people and so much more of the middle class is in the suburbs, leaving a city of concentrated poverty.