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NovelNo87 t1_j0czaxw wrote

Reply to comment by outb0undflight in What’s with all the Worcester hate??? by [deleted]

I agree that high rent is a good argument for a city being a worse place to live. Worcester rent is high relative to what it was 5 years ago and in comparison to similar cities like Hartford and Springfield, but it’s not really much higher than any of the surrounding towns where a lot of the complaints are coming from. It’s not like towns like Shrewsbury, Auburn and West Boylston have very different rents that haven’t gone upon the same amount of time. And honestly one of the only reasons so many people are moving from Boston and elsewhere east of 495 is because rents are rising even more there.

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outb0undflight t1_j0d2wr6 wrote

>Worcester rent is high relative to what it was 5 years ago

This is the issue, though. I've lived in Worcester for that five years. The city has really not changed that much, sure they've built some new shit, but day to day life in Worcester is no different than it was five yeras ago. But still the rents go up. Some good restaurants have opened, but other good ones have closed. The infrastructure still sucks, trash pickup is a fucking nightmare, the city's leaf collection policy is "push them all in the road, making the roads more dangerous, and we'll come pick them up in like a week," it'll snow 14" and the plows still leave 3" caked on the road...but we got a baseball stadium!

Like I said, the question is what are you getting in return for the money you're spending and is it worth it? In Worcester's case it's getting increasingly hard for a lot of people to justify spending the kind of money it takes to live here.

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