That has been my experience too. I lived near Crompton park for 3 years and lived off Vernon street for 5 and never had a problem with anyone. I just go to work and go about my business. The worst that happened was once when someone drove by with a BB gun and shot out a bunch of car windows. Other than being occasionally unlucky with stuff like that it’s not bad.

In general anywhere closer to the outside of the city is better - North Worcester around Burncoat street, East side around Lake Ave or the west side around Worcester state/Salisbury street west of park Ave. I’ve lived in less desirable parts of the city since 2009 and I’ve never had any issues except a few instances of very minor car vandalism, neighbors getting arrested and the occasional parking dispute in the winter. Its definitely not as bad as the worst parts of any major city. I’m single, live alone and mostly keep to myself so things don’t bother me much.

When the Sun is darkened and the moon gives no light, and the stars fall from the sky.

I lived in Rutland for almost a year because I was having trouble finding an affordable apartment close to my job in the city. Not much to do and I spent most of my time out of town anyway, but I really liked the Rail trail and all other hiking trails that I could just walk to from my apartment. I found a lot of cool little known historic sites buried deep in the woods and learned a lot of local history. But long term it never would’ve worked out for me.

As I understand it’s an ethnic slur towards Italians that originated when early immigrants had to travel by day for fear of being lynched, hence the name day-goers which evolved into Dago. Could also have applied to others but I’m not sure. Apparently Reddit is perfectly fine with slurs being thrown around at us, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Personally don’t care, although I do find it funny how you basically want to throw the entire thing out because you didn’t get what you wanted. I liked the Italian heritage celebration and don’t see how one man from the 15th century should define my heritage. I also celebrated Indigenous peoples day by going to Mohegan Sun and losing a couple hundred bucks lol. You’re either going to be happy or miserable depending on how you look at things. The choice is yours.

Yeah I’ve gotta say it is interesting. I can’t tell whether the people dropping ethic slurs are anti-Columbus and wanting to just sht on the whole heritage thing or pro-Columbus also shtting on it because they didn’t get what they wanted lol

Exactly. I’m actually 4th generation Italian and it was never even a celebration in my family. I never understood why some feel like their entire heritage hinges on celebrating one man from the 15th century.

DCU or any other credit union will usually be better than a regular bank. I specifically recommend DCU because I’ve had them for almost 10 years, my last two car loans and my credit card with the lowest interest rate is with DCU.

I live close to WPI and Highland street always seemed pretty lively to me, but there’s definitely more downtown. You’re going to have a hard time finding a place that allows dogs though. With that budget your best bet is the Grid or 145 Front street at city square. It won’t be cheap but I haven’t seen many other places that are ok with dogs.

That’ll teach him.