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Old 06-05-2020, 09:14 PM
 
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From your post history you do not have any authority to speak on this matter, either.
No one asked you either thank you. I was sharing some information and accounts I had from those actual towns, which few here seem to have. Quit trolling me.
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Old 06-05-2020, 09:16 PM
 
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No one asked you either thank you. I was sharing some information and accounts I had from those actual towns, which few here seem to have. Quit trolling me.
No one is trolling you - I am just pointing out that if chicagoliz is not qualified to speak on this topic, then neither are you.
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Old 06-05-2020, 09:22 PM
 
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No one is trolling you - I am just pointing out that if chicagoliz is not qualified to speak on this topic, then neither are you.
Not saying I am. I pretty much made sure to stay objective and keep my opinions to myself. It's a tough dilemma that I really don't have a good answer to.
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Old 06-05-2020, 09:27 PM
 
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i Know bad white kids as well. Kids from poor part of Southie who got scholarships to bc high and college and still ended up in bad fights, addicts, even murder charges. Some kids are just born bad or get changed for the worst. Doesn’t necessarily matter what color they are.
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Old 06-06-2020, 06:43 AM
 
Location: North Quabbin, MA
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Plenty of bad white kids from good, wealthy towns. Casual racists, misogynists, drug-addled sociopaths who walk through life just fine, armored by the privilege they are too blind or arrogant (or both) to admit having. When life gets hard, just go crash at the second home they’ll inherit. We have all seen this happen in “good” towns.
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Old 06-06-2020, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Worcester
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My advice to you is find a town you want to live in and then go there and check it out. For what ever reason asking people here will get you a variety of different answers and not much help. If you like the town enough to want to live there ,you kids will be happy.
This is a good advice. Thank u
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Old 06-06-2020, 05:14 PM
 
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Hi everyone am new here .My spouse and I live in the Worcester area .we have come to realize that schools here are not that great and are hoping to move to rutland.we found a beautiful home and I went to see it today .But I got this bad vibe because we are surrounded by white folks. My spouse is An Er nurse whilst am a nurse practitioner. We are a Christian family and have always lived a quiet life.Should we go ahead and buy the home or look else where ..Your thoughts are very important to me as I dont want to plunge my children in a place where they wont feel welcomed. I have two black boys under ten and one girl who just turned 5 .Should I be worried ..thanks in advance for your replies..
How could they be racists they are Democrats...imposable .
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Old 06-08-2020, 03:13 AM
 
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How could they be racists they are Democrats...imposable .
I’m not a Democrat but I can spell. I’ve also been the 6’2” blue eyed white guy in an office building in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. I can understand the statements here that no matter how enlightened and educated a small town might be, if it’s 98% white, any other race would really stand out. Somewhere a bit more heterogeneous might work better. I imagine the UMass Medical Center has a bunch of foreign medical school grads like any other big hospital and med school. Same for the colleges. There must be some suburb with a concentration of those people.
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Old 06-08-2020, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Central Mass
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I imagine the UMass Medical Center has a bunch of foreign medical school grads like any other big hospital and med school. Same for the colleges. There must be some suburb with a concentration of those people.
And most are my neighbors. Most med students live along Plantation or between Plantation and Lake in Worcester. My apartment complex is about 75% Indian.
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Old 06-08-2020, 06:23 AM
 
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I’m not a Democrat but I can spell. I’ve also been the 6’2” blue eyed white guy in an office building in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. I can understand the statements here that no matter how enlightened and educated a small town might be, if it’s 98% white, any other race would really stand out. Somewhere a bit more heterogeneous might work better. I imagine the UMass Medical Center has a bunch of foreign medical school grads like any other big hospital and med school. Same for the colleges. There must be some suburb with a concentration of those people.
Yes, they live in Shrewsbury or diverse Metrowest ‘burbs. The white folk at these institutions may be scattered throughout the better Wachusett and Nashoba towns if they’re seeking more value or larger more rural lots - Harvard and Princeton being the pinnacle of bucolic idealism.

Source: wife works for these Worcester institutions, including UMass Med, and we live in a Wachusett town.

The black people here (Wachusett) are on work visas trimming apple trees. Fact. Meanwhile, the Whole Foods in Shrewsbury looks and sounds like a UN summit. Different worlds.

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