I mean I think New England in general is becoming much more desirable than other areas.

You work in the woo?

Even springfield has begun to appreciate though i don't fully understand it. Even worcester-boston can be quite the commute

I can buy a starter home in Worcester or a giant 5 bedroom house in Springfield. Lol

How many decades away do you think it is? Even Worcester still has a ways to go I believe.

Nothing wrong with that. Nice to be a good blue collar hub.

Do you think it could become an artists hub? Manchester England was a post industrial shithole look at how much good music came out of there.

Yeah again this was just a speculative brainstorming session. I don't think the city is 100% a lost cause.

You do have a point. You can also get starter homes in providence or woonsocket for like 250k and that is an actual full blown metro. Attleboro, taunton, little more expensive but still.

Commuting on the turnpike is godawful in rush hour. My uncle used to travel Worcester-Boston to do overnight EMT dispatch. That took an hour with virtually no traffic. But yeah In a general sense I agree that Springfield would need to cultivate its own unique idenity. Maybe it becomes a starving artists city and cultivates a gritty cultural center.

A commuter rail that takes an hour 30 each way...

Yes. Meaning a good jobs market, lowered crime rates, etc...