Personally I don’t believe Manchester is that bad overall, but to someone considering moving to the area id also tell them to look at South Windsor, basically same access to all the Manchester benefits (mall, stores, movie theaters area) cause they all border it. I can’t speak for the schools personally but a-lot of my family went and all got into good colleges.

Engineer

Editing to clarify: Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil will pretty much find a job with in driving distance of most towns

I grew up in Manchester, went to elementary school/middle school there and it wasn’t bad. My parents enrolled me in the crec school systems for highschool. Overall growing up there wasnt bad, I lived on side of Manchester near bolton/vernon which was pretty nice. I think it depends on where you are in the town personally.