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Here's a criteria you can use, but you're more than welcome to give your views on each:
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I think you can also compare the cities on an individual basis AND/OR within their entire MSA; however, let's not let this turn into anther Boston vs Seattle thread.
Everett WA I get the impression is a real city while Everett is more an incorporated neighborhood of Boston. Basically indistinguishable from Chelsea, Malden Somerville etc. that surrounds it.
It doesn’t have “an economy” per say. Because it’s not a market.
If you want to live in a big City Everett Mass wins, if you want to be near one, Everett WA wins.
Everett WA is more comparable to Lowell or Haverhill than Everett Mass
Everett WA is more comparable to Lowell or Haverhill than Everett Mass
Yeah Everett, MA seems more analogous to Renton or Burien, WA. Diverse, working-class, relatively dense, sorta older suburbs, but more inner-ring than Everett, WA.
I'd pick the MA one to live in. Everett, WA is just depressing, it's so industrial (despite being right on Puget Sound, there are no public beaches) and so far away from everything. Lots of people outside who are homeless or drugged out and just a tired, dated feel everywhere.
I will say, the Grand Ave area in northwest Everett, WA is really pretty. Anything like this in the MA one?
Yeah Everett, MA seems more analogous to Renton or Burien, WA. Diverse, working-class, relatively dense, sorta older suburbs, but more inner-ring than Everett, WA.
I'd pick the MA one to live in. Everett, WA is just depressing, it's so industrial (despite being right on Puget Sound, there are no public beaches) and so far away from everything. Lots of people outside who are homeless or drugged out and just a tired, dated feel everywhere.
I will say, the Grand Ave area in northwest Everett, WA is really pretty. Anything like this in the MA one?
Nope the only areas that even have consistent Single family homes is up in the Northeast by the Revere Line but they’re on tiny plots. The town is denser than Boston proper.
And since it’s just an incorporated Boston neighborhood it never had its own community elite like Everett, WA (Or Haverhill, Lowell or any town decently separated from the central city)
There is no real riches. Just everyone solidly working/middle class
Nope the only areas that even have consistent Single family homes is up in the Northeast by the Revere Line but they’re on tiny plots. The town is denser than Boston proper.
And since it’s just an incorporated Boston neighborhood it never had its own community elite like Everett, WA (Or Haverhill, Lowell or any town decently separated from the central city)
There is no real riches. Just everyone solidly working/middle class
If someone weren't familiar with the Boston area, they'd think that Everett was actually a Boston neighborhood by reading your comments.
It may border Boston, and it may look a bit like Boston, but it's still NOT Boston.
If someone weren't familiar with the Boston area, they'd think that Everett was actually a Boston neighborhood by reading your comments.
It may border Boston, and it may look a bit like Boston, but it's still NOT Boston.
Incorporated means it’s an independent town. But it does not have an independent economy or history or culinary scene in any way. And it never has. Pretty much every independent city has the working class areas and the bigger stately homes of the elite of the time. Everett WA developed independently of Seattle. Everett MA did not develop independent of Boston. Everett Square I’d maybe 2.5 miles from the TD Garden/North Station.
Everett MA is kind of dysfunctional. They have a mayor who basically a mob boss and known to be hugely racist, sexist and incompetent with all types of lawsuits and accusations. He’s the king of the city and impossible to oust. …and city government that full is racially unrepresentative to the point of being Snow White and full of multi-generational families via cronyism, a casino that ne’er did and doesn’t do much for the town but attract crime. Best thing about is is it’s very close to Boston and has great High School football: but it’s not even cheap anymore
Everett WA seems to have the prettier natural setting. But, I would rather live in Everett Ma in that it is functionally an outer neighborhood of Boston with fairly easy access to the urban core.
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