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OrphanKripler t1_j0csugc wrote

Boston housing / rent rates

For 1920s built Springfield quality level housing in the hood.

It’s sad Worcester rent is $2000+ on average for a pest infested dimly lit dungeon that creaks and rattles with every step you take down your narrow hallway into your tiny living room that can barely fit a full couch, TV, and other furniture. With no off street parking, geto loud obnoxious neighbors playing trash music 20 hours a day.

The city itself is nice. I wish there were more things to do other than drink and eat. Woulda been coo to have a Dave and Busters type of place locally. Or more parks. It was nice riding my bike or walking and playing soccer until everyone kept bringing their dogs and walking with the leash stretched out 10 feet across the path so you have to stay behind them or wait for one to notice and move closer to each other. Or I kick my ball and it lands in dog shit

We need a dedicated dog park and we need more parking in residential areas. Since rent is out of control we may as well speed up the process and tear some triple decker houses down and build a mini parking lot driveway every few houses. Maybe this way pp can start rioting rent is getting too out of reach for the general population and they can regulate rent. Like keep it at a certain limit or not raise the rent for a number of years. It’s such a hazard when turning out of a street since ppl are forced to park on the very corner edge of the street. So visibility is terrible when pulling out.

I like Worcester though but it needs further logistical thinking with its infrastructure. The rotary on Grafton street by Pizza Hut is terrible it clogs up so much traffic. Ppl don’t know how to use a rotary and keep icing forward and stay inside. They block the inside so nobody can pass and stop the flow going, so everything is a stand still until the double traffic lights finally go green. Not to mention the school busses picking up the kids on the same street lol

There’s no room to pass anyone either. I remember a fire truck couldn’t pass by so it drove on the sidewalk. 18 wheelers do the same because they’re too big for the rotary.

I’ll stop ranting. But the city as a whole is very nice. Ask any local and they’ll say they been hearing the same thing for decades “Worcester has been on the up and coming”

Well I think it slowly starting to reflect that statement in the past few years. It’s gonna be constant progress I just hope they build and develop with more day to day use - type of thinking

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outb0undflight t1_j0d4ecl wrote

> I’ll stop ranting. But the city as a whole is very nice. Ask any local and they’ll say they been hearing the same thing for decades “Worcester has been on the up and coming”

I mention this every time it comes up, but the earliest I've ever seen the phrase "Worcester Renaissance" used is from January '05 when they started to push the Paris Cinema to shut down in earnest. I know they were using it before then because people in the articles talk about it like it's some ongoing process, but it's just so patently Worcester.

There's all these civil servants in the articles saying, "Worcester's a developing city! We're in the Renaissance! We can't have a porno theater right next to City Hall! It needs to be shut down so we can build something good there!"

So they shut it down. What happened to the property? It sat there, vacant, for twelve fucking years. And after twelve years what did they put in its place? The Beer Garden. Quite possibly the shittiest restaurant in Worcester.

I'd take the porno theater over that place any day, at least the Paris was honest about what it was. It wasn't a faux-gastro pub with sub-Denny's quality food.

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pok3ey3 t1_j0d59up wrote

Beer gardens great foh

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outb0undflight t1_j0d5zam wrote

Literally every restaurant on the Common has better food than Beer Garden, better atmosphere too. If Revolution Pie and Pint were still open then maybe Beer Garden would only be the second shittiest restaurant in the city.

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NovelNo87 t1_j0d15w7 wrote

Rent is ridiculous. Lots of people on Facebook laughed at my comments 5 years ago when I said this was going to happen when they built Polar Park, but look where we are now. Other than eating, drinking and baseball there isn’t much going on. I’d much rather live in Springfield where it’s not next to impossible to get a studio for under $1300, and they’ve got MGM, Basketball hall of fame, the Big E and Six Flags a few miles away.

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OrphanKripler t1_j0d86oj wrote

Exactly there’s not much for ppl to do here. Other than eat and drink. Even shopping has dwindled down but that’s a whole other topic

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NovelNo87 t1_j0er7di wrote

Not to mention a lot of shopping is done online today and most of the new places in the canal district aren’t easily accessible by car. So unless you’re a hipster who can afford to live near Union station a lot of it likely won’t be appealing.

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D2Foley t1_j0d4ymu wrote

> Since rent is out of control we may as well speed up the process and tear some triple decker houses down and build a mini parking lot driveway every few houses.

Your solution to the rent crisis to to tear down housing and replace it with parking lots?

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OrphanKripler t1_j0d6l8j wrote

Hahahaha well If you’re just gonna cherry pick it like that, then that’s how it sounds. The rest of that paragraph explains itself. I said tearing down the houses will make rent so high and out of reach for regular people that it’s gonna force city hall or whoever to step in and do something to regulate rent otherwise the masses will have to relocate out of the city and once their rent revenue moves away, then they’ll start to make changes to draw us back in.

I never called this a solution either. It’s just discussing and thinking out loud. Let’s face it they don’t care how high rent goes they’ll always just keep the space empty until someone who can afford it comes along and moves in. Happens all the time in Boston

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D2Foley t1_j0d6z5t wrote

The rest of the paragraph just advocates rent control, which doesn't work. It just benefits landlords and existing tenants.

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OrphanKripler t1_j0d7qmq wrote

So you’re saying existing tenants should be forced to move out?

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D2Foley t1_j0d8at6 wrote

I didn't even come close to saying that. Why are you trying to put words in my mouth? Sorry for pointing out your "thinking out loud" was not a solution. Hope you have a good one

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OrphanKripler t1_j0d95vv wrote

Lol you gotta relax. You were the one basically coming after me calling my thoughts a solution in the first place.

Coming in hot Lol looking like your eager for some heated debate or something.

It’s okay. Have a good weekend, and happy new year! I can’t wait for the vacation soon

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