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bemest t1_ir4qbl8 wrote

Reply to comment by Ok-Lengthiness446 in 7 of top 20 small cities in America are in Mass., study says – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News by Commercial-Life-9998

All inside 128 and unaffordable to a working family.

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czechmixing t1_ir4s262 wrote

That's what makes them great! No poor people!!!

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FirstOrderRouge t1_ir5405b wrote

That’s the actual implication unfortunately.

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BasicDesignAdvice t1_ir5edg0 wrote

Its also how we have structured things. Investment pours into high wealth low crime areas. The areas that really need investment are ignored and just get worse and worse. Repeat constantly all over America.

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flamethrower2 t1_ir5mqau wrote

At least they Robin Hood the school funding somewhat. People complain about it but it's better than states where property value equals school funding. Which is most states.

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bemest t1_ir4t0ev wrote

Thank goodness for Lowell or who would mow their lawns.

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headrush46n2 t1_ir5g5je wrote

they're going to need to start bussing people in from Springfield to serve them their coffee.

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internetTroll151 t1_ir5b0l0 wrote

Segregation still exists, but nobody will want to admit it or talk about it. It's not an easy problem to solve, most of the rest of the country has larger bodies of government (e.g. school districts with 5+ high schools) - so its possible to integrate poorer sections of the community with wealthier. Here there are such distinct boundaries.

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KawaiiCoupon t1_ir6knwz wrote

That’s the minimum standard to make it on the list lmao

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BasicDesignAdvice t1_ir5e0vb wrote

I grew up in Needham and it was a paradise. Tons of families and school age kids. Great schools. Of course as a teenager it was the worst place in the world but looking back its crazy how lucky I was.

There are still a lot of families but every parent you talk to in the playground is a doctor or an engineer or something.

All the five bedrooms being slapped together on my old street are being bought but childless couples, which I am not judging, but its weird going back remembering that street filled with kids. Kids are all spaced out now instead of all living on the block.

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