OrphanKripler

OrphanKripler t1_j9kq39i wrote

Reply to 5 and Diner by 508wortown

We have enough with Popeyes on park Ave, Chick-fil-A, and KFC. How about a Sonics or Shake Shack or In-N-out, if we are gonna get shitty fast food chains. At least get the decently good ones

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OrphanKripler t1_j8juv7p wrote

I wish it was just a normal park like it used to be and still had the grills for bbq. I respect all the memorial stuff but I feel it woulda been better off in a museum for true appreciation.

I heard kids crying saying there’s dead bodies under the monuments and wanted to go home. I laughed but I could understand thinking that way. Lol

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OrphanKripler t1_j7fj1m6 wrote

There’s not much this time of year. Probably one of the most boring months of the year.

If you come by the 17,18,19th of Feb there’s Monster Jam that comes each year for Valentine’s Day. My GF usually takes me each year and its romantic seeing monster trucks jump around.

There’s the ice skating rink on green street. We have escape rooms. Arcade and pool halls Maybe catch a railers game (hockey) Museums Laser tag but that’s in westborough down the shrewsbury turnpike I think. About 10 mins from Worcester. Blackstone valley plaza shopping Plenty of bars and restaurants of varying quality though. If you want to increase your chances of a fresh and tasty meal wait for Friday or Saturday to eat out.

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OrphanKripler t1_j7clxo1 wrote

Exactly, I would rather have had a casino. At least it would bring lots of people and not just baseball fans. Sure it might bring bad people to the city and crime and whatever dumb excuses ppl wanna come up with to oppose a casino, but that’s literally everywhere and this city already has the bad crowd in it. There was a shooting just a couple days ago in broad daylight a couple blocks from the police station.

The teams the stadium was built for hardly play here. It was built before even getting those teams contracted! The city council is so out of touch. They should have made a driving school mini circuit to teach everyone in this city how to drive.

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OrphanKripler t1_j7b8j4g wrote

Also more places to eat that have actually good food. These mom and pop restaurants I’ve been going to for 20 years are so far behind in quality. It’s always a hit or miss.

It’s hard to find a spot that’s consistent. I shouldn’t have to wait for Friday and Saturday nights for a meal that’s not reheated 10 times or hard as a rock served with dripping oily dark brown moldy fries

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OrphanKripler t1_j7b83nd wrote

More places for people to hang out that’s not a bar or a restaurant.

Instead of that baseball stadium they should have made an entertainment plaza;

that would have a Dave & Busters, a DZ zone for the really little kids, a Go kart rink, Food court, Pool hall, Swimming pool hall, Tennis, And a small oval for doing jogging laps or just walking in the sun. A mini mall that could be shrunk down by making it multiple floors. (More of a hang out for young teens really)

We already have enough baseball stadiums with the one on chandler street, holy cross, Gillette, Fenway etc.

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OrphanKripler t1_j0d95vv wrote

Lol you gotta relax. You were the one basically coming after me calling my thoughts a solution in the first place.

Coming in hot Lol looking like your eager for some heated debate or something.

It’s okay. Have a good weekend, and happy new year! I can’t wait for the vacation soon

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OrphanKripler t1_j0d6l8j wrote

Hahahaha well If you’re just gonna cherry pick it like that, then that’s how it sounds. The rest of that paragraph explains itself. I said tearing down the houses will make rent so high and out of reach for regular people that it’s gonna force city hall or whoever to step in and do something to regulate rent otherwise the masses will have to relocate out of the city and once their rent revenue moves away, then they’ll start to make changes to draw us back in.

I never called this a solution either. It’s just discussing and thinking out loud. Let’s face it they don’t care how high rent goes they’ll always just keep the space empty until someone who can afford it comes along and moves in. Happens all the time in Boston

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OrphanKripler t1_j0csugc wrote

Boston housing / rent rates

For 1920s built Springfield quality level housing in the hood.

It’s sad Worcester rent is $2000+ on average for a pest infested dimly lit dungeon that creaks and rattles with every step you take down your narrow hallway into your tiny living room that can barely fit a full couch, TV, and other furniture. With no off street parking, geto loud obnoxious neighbors playing trash music 20 hours a day.

The city itself is nice. I wish there were more things to do other than drink and eat. Woulda been coo to have a Dave and Busters type of place locally. Or more parks. It was nice riding my bike or walking and playing soccer until everyone kept bringing their dogs and walking with the leash stretched out 10 feet across the path so you have to stay behind them or wait for one to notice and move closer to each other. Or I kick my ball and it lands in dog shit

We need a dedicated dog park and we need more parking in residential areas. Since rent is out of control we may as well speed up the process and tear some triple decker houses down and build a mini parking lot driveway every few houses. Maybe this way pp can start rioting rent is getting too out of reach for the general population and they can regulate rent. Like keep it at a certain limit or not raise the rent for a number of years. It’s such a hazard when turning out of a street since ppl are forced to park on the very corner edge of the street. So visibility is terrible when pulling out.

I like Worcester though but it needs further logistical thinking with its infrastructure. The rotary on Grafton street by Pizza Hut is terrible it clogs up so much traffic. Ppl don’t know how to use a rotary and keep icing forward and stay inside. They block the inside so nobody can pass and stop the flow going, so everything is a stand still until the double traffic lights finally go green. Not to mention the school busses picking up the kids on the same street lol

There’s no room to pass anyone either. I remember a fire truck couldn’t pass by so it drove on the sidewalk. 18 wheelers do the same because they’re too big for the rotary.

I’ll stop ranting. But the city as a whole is very nice. Ask any local and they’ll say they been hearing the same thing for decades “Worcester has been on the up and coming”

Well I think it slowly starting to reflect that statement in the past few years. It’s gonna be constant progress I just hope they build and develop with more day to day use - type of thinking

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OrphanKripler t1_j04qc7q wrote

Northboro plaza past white city in shrewsbury.

Along the same route in westborough there’s the Christmas tree shop, further down There’s also a target, Walmart, Burlington coat factory and other little stores in the Burlington coat factory plaza. Further down from that Is a hidden plaza down a road I can’t think of it’s name. But the plaza has a medical center in it and there’s a railroad by it.

All these locations are a 10-20minute drive out of Worcester but along the same shrewsbury turnpike route

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OrphanKripler t1_iz4yh75 wrote

The rotary on grafton street in front of the Pizza Hut, that’s widened out so much that only one car can go thru. So good luck to emergency responders and big trucks because the sidewalk is also widened out at the edges of the blocks so there’s no passing anywhere at all or anywhere to swerve to the side

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