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Anyone know if Roxbury Crossing (near Boston, MA i hear) is scary?

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0bsessions:

--- Quote from: Ballard on 14 May 2008, 21:56 ---Hey OP, I heard if you walk around the neighborhood with a New York Yankees hat on, it's like magical protection from all the thugs.

Bonus magical protection points for a foam finger.

--- End quote ---

Actually, this is more accurate than not. Roxbury Crossing is relatively gang heavy and Yankees hats are pretty popular with gangs. It's Kenmore Square you want to avoid with a Yankees hat.

bicostp:
Parts of Massachusetts to avoid:

- Lowell
- Any of the towns bordering Rhode Island (you WILL get run over by cars with RI plates)
- Cambridge
- Heath There's NOTHING around there! Just a maple syrup farm and mountains. They do have an interesting agricultural fair, though.
- Springfield
- Downtown Boston
- New Bedford
- Lynn
- Lawrence
- Worcester
- Pittsfield
- Chicopee
- North Adams

Sources:
Personal experience
The number of times the local news mentions these towns in the average month or so
http://www.idcide.com/lists/ma/on-population-2006-violent-crime-rate.htm

valley_parade:
You want to avoid North Adams because it'll bore you to death.

This is why I'm moving to Boston next summer!

0bsessions:
Man, not even. Lowell, well, parts are trashy, but almost everything north of the river is safe (My grandmother's lived in Lowell for some 70+ years with no issue and I grew up just over the border).

Cambridge...what?! Are you nuts?! Cambridge is probably the safest city in metro Boston. The only vaguely rough part is a single block of Central Square (And Central's got nothing on the Sullivan Square area of Slumerville). Other than that, the city's quite safe. Seriously, Cambridge is 90% MIT and Harvard students. Man, what a rough bunch they are. Watch out, the MIT kids might try to bludgeon you with their 20 sided dice.

Lynn and Lawrence are pretty awful, but you shouldn't list them without covering Fitchburg/Leominster. What a pair of shit pits those are.

bicostp:

--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 15 May 2008, 07:51 ---Cambridge...what?! Are you nuts?!
--- End quote ---

No, I just don't like Cambridge. :P

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