Marlborough Best Place To Raise Kids In Mass.

[Capetan Mihali]

My roommates are from Methuen and Sudbury respectively.  Socioeconomic class tracks.

[Capetan Mihali]

Methuen roommate also lived in Lowell (commentary: Cambodians and Puerto Rican drug dealers) -- and Lawrence (commentary: shithole).

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yes, to both, though Lawrence is far worse than a shithole.

[Capetan Mihali]

I fear that the Green Line extension into Slummerville will gentrify it within an inch of its life.  Any part of Somerville near the T or the universities is already pretty much crowded up with students and Brazilians, with a couple of Portuguese sectors.

[Caliga]

public transportation.

None of that anywhere near here.   

[Admiral Yi]

I fear that the Green Line extension into Slummerville will gentrify it within an inch of its life.  Any part of Somerville near the T or the universities is already pretty much crowded up with students and Brazilians, with a couple of Portuguese sectors.

So weird to me to talk about gentrifying white neighborhoods.

What's that town due west of Cambridge, anyone?  Is that Concord?

[Caliga]

I fear that the Green Line extension into Slummerville will gentrify it within an inch of its life.  Any part of Somerville near the T or the universities is already pretty much crowded up with students and Brazilians, with a couple of Portuguese sectors.

So weird to me to talk about gentrifying white neighborhoods.

What's that town due west of Cambridge, anyone?  Is that Concord?

Waltham IIRC.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I spent 45 minutes moving 2 miles through Lowell today.

Yeah, Concord. 

[Capetan Mihali]

I fear that the Green Line extension into Slummerville will gentrify it within an inch of its life.  Any part of Somerville near the T or the universities is already pretty much crowded up with students and Brazilians, with a couple of Portuguese sectors.

So weird to me to talk about gentrifying white neighborhoods.

What's that town due west of Cambridge, anyone?  Is that Concord?

Watertown.

[Admiral Yi]

Watertown.

We have a winner.

[Capetan Mihali]

Watertown.

We have a winner.

With the great Armenian grocery stores.   

[Caliga]

Oh right, forgot about Watertown.  Watertown is between Waltham and Cambridge.

[Capetan Mihali]

So weird to me to talk about gentrifying white neighborhoods.

I've only been a gentrifier in white neighborhoods.  Living in shitty houses rather than new condos, but same diff ultimately.  In Philly, the boundary of a white Irish neighborhood (Pennsport) and a white Italian neighborhood (middle of South Philly, I guess).  The big gentrification there was the expansion into West Philly (black) and Fishtown/Kensington/Port Richmond (Irish, white/P.R., and Polish, respectively).

[KRonn]

Anyway, the reality is that the best towns to raise kids in Mass. are, have been for quite some time, and will be for the forseeable future, one of the following:  Concord, Dover, Natick, Needham, Sherborn, Sudbury, Wellesley, Weston, Wayland.

Heh, probably right, the wealthier type towns. Westwood too maybe in that mix of wealthier towns. Though I think there are a lot of non-wealthy towns that do a decent job with schools, etc. The state has a program for building cookie-cutter type high schools, after some towns went nuts building uber expensive schools, several hundred million dollars. Newton is a prime example of an overly expensive school, one of the poster childs for the new program.

[Malthus]

Anyway, the reality is that the best towns to raise kids in Mass. are, have been for quite some time, and will be for the forseeable future, one of the following:  Concord, Dover, Natick, Needham, Sherborn, Sudbury, Wellesley, Weston, Wayland.

I really enjoyed spending my summers as a kid in Woods Hole.