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Old 09-15-2013, 08:02 PM
 
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When it comes to buying a house or renting an apartment for a family with kids.
What are the top 5 areas that you would avoid?
People keep telling me stay away from Brockton and Mattapan.
What else?
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Old 09-15-2013, 08:31 PM
 
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When it comes to buying a house or renting an apartment for a family with kids.
What are the top 5 areas that you would avoid?
People keep telling me stay away from Brockton and Mattapan.
What else?
My additional five would be the following:

Lawrence
Nuttings Lake
Roxbury
Everett
Fitchburg
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Old 09-15-2013, 09:31 PM
 
Location: Townie land
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My additional five would be the following:

Lawrence
Nuttings Lake
Roxbury
Everett
Fitchburg
HAHAHA wow.. Nuttings lake makes the top 5 worst in the state? or maybe a top 10. Its pretty bad but in the same company as Roxbury or Lawrence or even Fitchburg? wow man. I think in a suburban sense its pretty bad but maybe it could compete with city ghettos in some ways.
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Old 09-15-2013, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Springfield
Brockton
Worcester
Fitchburg
Gardner
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Old 09-15-2013, 09:49 PM
 
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HAHAHA wow.. Nuttings lake makes the top 5 worst in the state? or maybe a top 10. Its pretty bad but in the same company as Roxbury or Lawrence or even Fitchburg? wow man. I think in a suburban sense its pretty bad but maybe it could compete with city ghettos in some ways.
I've spent a considerable amount of time living and working in the communities surrounding Billerica. I consider certain neighborhoods in Billerica to be the white ghetto with Nuttings Lake the worst of it in my opinion.

Don't forget the Boston media which is dominated by white people has a tendency to demonize the low income minority areas, while the white ghettos are ignored.
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Old 09-15-2013, 10:11 PM
 
Location: south central
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Woodland Heath
Beacon Hill
Dover
Wellesley
Weston
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Old 09-18-2013, 05:02 AM
 
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When it comes to buying a house or renting an apartment for a family with kids.
What are the top 5 areas that you would avoid?
People keep telling me stay away from Brockton and Mattapan.
What else?
1. Dorchester near Fields Corner.
2. The area directly south of Northeastern University.
3. Jackson Square in Jamaica Plain

Top 5 I would move to with kids:

1. Newton
2. Cambridge
3. Quincy
4. Lexington
5. Belmont

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Old 09-18-2013, 11:04 AM
 
Location: 42°22'55.2"N 71°24'46.8"W
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HAHAHA wow.. Nuttings lake makes the top 5 worst in the state? or maybe a top 10. Its pretty bad but in the same company as Roxbury or Lawrence or even Fitchburg? wow man. I think in a suburban sense its pretty bad but maybe it could compete with city ghettos in some ways.
Wait, what's wrong with Nuttings Lake? I have a friend who lived there for years. Every time I went to visit his neighborhood seemed residential/quiet to me. Even sorta woodsy in a good way.
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Old 09-18-2013, 12:13 PM
 
Location: North Quabbin, MA
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Springfield
Holyoke and Chicopee (their Springfieldish parts)
Fitchburg (and to an extent its supposedly "better" but still mediocre exurban, crack-smoking plastic twin, Leominster)
Athol (and its slightly friendlier neighbor Orange)
Lawrence

Most other places have a good helping of redeeming qualities that reflect some success at nurturing hope for a better quality of life for their citizenry. Even traditionally denigrated places like Lowell, Worcester, Pittsfield, or New Bedford, seem to have made progress toward repairing their tattered images and economies. In the ones I list, the awfulness seems to still outweigh the nurturing of hope to improve socioeconomic quality of life concerns, by a significant margin.
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Old 09-18-2013, 01:22 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Wait, what's wrong with Nuttings Lake? I have a friend who lived there for years. Every time I went to visit his neighborhood seemed residential/quiet to me. Even sorta woodsy in a good way.
I agree. I don't get all the Billerica bashing going on here lately. The last time I drove through people were having a good time on the common enjoying a summer concert.
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