Banea-Vaedr t1_iu6qk9v wrote
Reply to comment by Emergency_Address_51 in Just in case any resident of the four most western countries had ANY doubt of their position in the minds of the rest of the state... "Western Mass.. I don't even understand as a concept," says one Bay Stater. by Emergency_Address_51
Boston has also engaged in policy that crippled western mass for centuries. Springfield and Pittsfield really could have been something.
Emergency_Address_51 OP t1_iu74c8g wrote
80% of Holyoke's $100 million dollar school budget comes from chapter 70 funding. Even if the school's failing, $100 million dollars is A LOT of great paying jobs, that in turn create more jobs. Massachusetts Schools are so fantastically financed that even "failing" school systems still make their communties better off.
Banea-Vaedr t1_iu74vap wrote
Boston sucking the life out of WMA to fuel its own economic boom is always bad
Emergency_Address_51 OP t1_iu75c80 wrote
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Mass is practically tied for state with the highest per capita income.
Banea-Vaedr t1_iu75es2 wrote
And the distribution is awful because all the benefits go to Boston
oceansofmyancestors t1_iu7c6yj wrote
Springfield WAS something, look at the history of the city. It was a very important city, it’s location made it so. City of invention and it just got crushed.
Banea-Vaedr t1_iu7c9l5 wrote
Exactly. City was sacrificed and reciecwd exactly 0nhelp until it was too late.
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