Suburban is not the right word

Simply not true in terms of residential tax for the towns being discussed — just a quick glance, but Rutland (15.79/1000), Paxton (18.98/1000), Holden (16.56/1000), Princeton (15.68/1000), and even sterling (15.25/1000) have higher residential tax rates than Worcester (15.21/1000).

Commercial taxes are another matter entirely, and there Worcester definitely has these towns beat. If Worcester didn’t have a dual tax rate, I imagine the residential tax would be higher than this to make up the difference.

Maybe because it takes two days to reach the nearest highway. Hyperbole…but you get my point. They aren’t commuting towns.

Yes just as bad this is taxachusetts

Auburn's schools are directly on par with Holden's. Wachusett Regional is hardly a farm school for the Ivys. There are nice houses & shitty houses in both towns.

You're cherry-picking for Holden because you have some weird boner for Holden despite it being a quiet, boring town. Lol, having a Big Y gets you excited to live in Holden..? Not that Auburn is a wonderland, I'm just saying you're making it sound like "Pawnee vs Eagleton" when really both towns are equally... meh.

It’s Worcester, even locked in your garage in a decent neighborhood expect it to be stolen at least once every few years

Source: happened all the time growing up

What's going on with OP's post history? Is this a real account? Someone with too much free time?

Glue

It was last year so I’m not 100% on the timeline but I think only 1-2 weeks after I signed off on the quote.

It's an attempt to get us to click on these real-estate links. I'm sure they're all being sold by the same realtor or developer or something.

edit: yup, they're all in some godawful cookie cutter yuppie development called "Wagner Meadows". Looks like something from Stepford Wives or Edward Scissorhands. I should crosspost this in r/McMansionHell

Never leave a bicycle unattended in the city. Locked or not, it WILL disappear.

We need better bike infrastructure in the city. We need more bike lanes, and much more secure storage for commuter bikes. We also need more bike to bus and bike to rail transportation options.

I hope you find your bike.

Around how long did it take from the day you ordered to the day it was installed?

This sounds like one of those chain emails from the 90s.

"I was skeptical, like you, and I didn't forward this email to 10 people, as I should have. Then my life fell apart, my children hate me, and my dog cheated on me. If only I had forwarded that email, I'd drive a ferrari, and live in a fancy house!!

Weirdest troll. Their username is in German.

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.

Holden blows.

Used to live in Barre. These places have their charm and benefits- when my husband and I moved to MA in 2019 on two teacher salaries, and had to buy a home, Worcester was on the edge of affordable but too competitive still, so we looked at homes in many of the places you noted. They are all really fairly different, and generally the closer you are to freeway access, the more expensive. Princeton is not very affordable at this point, especially if you’re thinking in terms of housing. It’s a beautiful place to live, and my favorite of the places you mentioned, with fantastic schools- but still a drive to get anywhere. It gets increasingly rural, affordable, conservative, and in some places, impoverished and rough, the further in you go, in my experience.

It’s an ad. There’s been multiple scripted stories, likely by struggling real estate agents trying to sell of their properties.

I guess Holden is good if you work in worcester but it's a long way to anywhere East. Rutland and Princeton are rural though.

Maybe. To me it came across like him bragging about having money and a genius kid to boot.

Not as bad as Worcester.

I'm honestly a bit confused here. Living in Holden or Sterling isn't really any cheaper than Worcester, while Paxton and Rutland are more rural so land is a bit cheaper. These towns aren't even really comparable to each other.

Housing supply is the main factor. Holden and the surrounding towns have been steadily growing and adding new housing stock as people are priced out of the Boston area. These towns have plenty of undeveloped land to build single family houses compared to other towns to the east, or a city like Worcester.

New subdivisions are going up rapidly, and that’s keeping the price of previously built houses down. Once they stop building, prices will start to escalate.

What would this be an ad for? Pretty sure this is a sincere post from someone who has some level of neurodivergence and it’s bullshit to make fun of him.

Because it’s boring af there and many people want to live where there is culture, diversity, and something to do besides hang at home.