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laterbacon t1_iwlb0fc wrote

Reply to comment by Icy-Egg-7755 in How do folks get to PVD? by Icy-Egg-7755

Not to talk you out of Providence (I grew up here and I love it), but it might be worth looking into Attleboro. There's an MBTA stop downtown with a lot of recent development clustered around it, so you can easily get to Providence or Boston. It's also in Massachusetts, which has a much better school system overall and access to in-state UMASS benefits. Massachusetts also has the closest thing to universal healthcare that exists in the US right now.

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Icy-Egg-7755 OP t1_iwlbngl wrote

I haven’t been super impressed with Attleboro, but you make good points here. I’ll take a second look.

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laterbacon t1_iwlctnm wrote

It's one of those old small northeastern cities that was gutted when all the industry left, but it's definitely on the upswing recently. It has a really cute, relatively intact downtown with a ton of potential and a bunch of very recent development adjacent to the station. Capron Park and its little zoo is a really nice asset too. That said it's definitely way sleepier than Providence (but only a 20 minute train ride away). The bus system there is bad though.. GATRA makes RIPTA look like the Tokyo Metro

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