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MeEvilBob t1_jbfdype wrote

Reply to comment by DamianPBNJ in Bikers around Lowell by Aggravating_Age4915

OP sounds like an angry grandpa "those damn kids, riding their bicycles while playing their wrap and hippity-hop music and not saying hello as they pass, why back in my day...".

To anyone who recently moved into a luxury loft in a mill, here's a friendly reminder, Lowell hasn't always been a UMASS campus, for a long time it was more or less defined by it's post-industrial recession, and still is in a lot of areas.

This is a city that still has a huge poverty problem and thus a huge crime problem despite how nice the downtown area looks now.

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Fantastic_Mango_2827 t1_jbgshy7 wrote

I’m honestly more tired of all the commuters from the wrong-side-of-the-river suburbs barreling through residential streets and beeping their horns at kids who live there, taking out their misery on anyone slowing them down.

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NoLimit90s t1_jbp5zp4 wrote

Downtown does not look nice. It's okay. City leaders should look at what Salem has done with their downtown and we need to bring in more commercial businesses so property taxes won't be so high.

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