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deadheadskier said:
There are lot of successful businesses in the Mills in Lawrence, Mass these days too. Where do the owners of those businesses live? Andover or one of the other nice towns outside of Lawrence. Now, Lawrence is obviously a MUCH, MUCH worse place to live than Manchester. However, where do the successful business owners in Manchester live? Not in the city. They live in one of the very nice towns outside of the city......like where you live; Bedford.

Why?

because......
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Most workers live in a different city than they work in. Look at suburban NY with Long Island, northern NJ, and Westchester Count.
 
St. Bear said:
Most workers live in a different city than they work in. Look at suburban NY with Long Island, northern NJ, and Westchester Count.
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Wrong analogy.

Most NYC workers don't live in the city not because they don't want to. They can't afford the price of apartments to live there!

In other words, that's the reverse of the problem. NY is so attractive it becomes unaffordable for the vast majority of those who WANT to live there!
 
St. Bear said:
Most workers live in a different city than they work in. Look at suburban NY with Long Island, northern NJ, and Westchester Count.
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People choose suburban living for a multitude of reasons. I just don't see the large scale development of nice urban accommodations in Manchester like you do in Boston, Portland, Providence etc. It's come a long way, you're absolutely right, but literally two blocks away from Elm Street is total ghetto as Smellytele pointed out. Immediately adjacent to downtown "attraction" districts in nicer cities you don't really have that. Hopefully the improvements continue in the city, but as of today you couldn't pay me to live in downtown Manchester. Portland was largely a ghetto 25 years ago and look at it now. I loved living in downtown Portland. Hell Back Bay in Boston wasn't a safe place to live 30 years ago and it's now one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the city.
 
abc said:
Wrong analogy.

Most NYC workers don't live in the city not because they don't want to. They can't afford the price of apartments to live there!

In other words, that's the reverse of the problem. NY is so attractive it becomes unaffordable for the vast majority of those who WANT to live there!
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Up I commute now from 1 hour and 45 minutes to the city each way for now. I love living up here and hope to find a stable job up here soon. I hung out in the city a lot while living closer but I'm glad I don't have to live in getto areas any more. My commute then was still an hour on NYC subway train.
 
No you're a ********* because you don't know where people are from here (I don't live there). It is disrespectful and classless.



deadheadskier said:
I'm a douche bag because I stated my opinion that the city with the worst crime rate in the State and that outside of a small area of downtown is loaded with seedy, dilapidated buildings is a crap hole? Okay :rolleyes:

Would I be a douche bag if I called Dorchester, Mass a crap hole?

And no, I don't consider Manchester to be evenly remotely as bad of a place as Dorchester. I just didn't realize in this world that calling a place a crap hole makes you a douche bag.
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Newpylong said:
No you're a ********* because you don't know where people are from here (I don't live there). It is disrespectful and classless.
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Seriously???? You actually think that people's hometowns are such a sensitive subject that having a candid discussion about US cities makes you a *********? Personally I don't give a crap about what anybody else thinks of my hometown. Of all things to be offended over....
 
Riverskier said:
Seriously???? You actually think that people's hometowns are such a sensitive subject that having a candid discussion about US cities makes you a *********? Personally I don't give a crap about what anybody else thinks of my hometown. Of all things to be offended over....
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Yeah seriously. Not just hometowns, but where people currently live? Maybe someone has put their life savings into buying a house there? Maybe someone has spent their life savings trying to run a business there? You just don't know...

Sure I think places are "crapholes", but I wouldn't go spouting off my opinion on an Internet message board about it. There's nothing candid about it, it's classless.
 
Riverskier said:
Seriously???? You actually think that people's hometowns are such a sensitive subject that having a candid discussion about US cities makes you a *********? Personally I don't give a crap about what anybody else thinks of my hometown. Of all things to be offended over....
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Lots of people care about where they're from. I'm promoting your post to douchiest in the thread dismissing civic pride. Maybe the reason for that is New Gloucester, ME sucks.

:stirpot:
 
Newpylong said:
Sure I think places are "crapholes", but I wouldn't go spouting off my opinion on an Internet message board about it. There's nothing candid about it, it's classless.
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Interesting. You would never call a place a craphole on an internet message board because it's "classless", but you have no problem calling an individual a douche bag on an internet message board. how classy.......:lol:
 
bobbutts said:
Lots of people care about where they're from. I'm promoting your post to douchiest in the thread dismissing civic pride. Maybe the reason for that is New Gloucester, ME sucks.

:stirpot:
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I never said I don't care about where I am from, and I am certainly not dissing civic pride. I just don't understand being all that worried about what other people think. I am sure for many people New Gloucester, ME does suck. Different strokes for different folks. I get that some subjects are touchy and should probably be left alone, but adding the subject of people's opinions of cities/towns seems a bit over the top to say the least.
 
If we are not supposed to care what other people think, then why are we here, reading and posting our opinions?
 
Actually Boston is more of a ski city than Manchester - more ski/snowboard shops, they have the Ski/Snowboard Expo, the Winter Film Festival with two to three days of Skiing and Snowboarding movies, they have Events via Boston Ski and Sports Club and SnowRiders. All the movie producers have tour stops in Boston too! Come November it becomes a Ski City! Check it out this fall!
 
I think the biggest change in Manchester over the last 20 years is the expansion of the airport. That has dramatically increased the number of folks in town. The arena's are great and commerce is expanding. Go Manchester!
 
dlague said:
Actually Boston is more of a ski city than Manchester - more ski/snowboard shops, they have the Ski/Snowboard Expo, the Winter Film Festival with two to three days of Skiing and Snowboarding movies, they have Events via Boston Ski and Sports Club and SnowRiders. All the movie producers have tour stops in Boston too! Come November it becomes a Ski City! Check it out this fall!
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Nope....doesn't fit in the OP's oriiginal criteria. Boston has more than 500k in population.
 

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