Do you know if it’s a good place to live in mid or western Massachusetts?? My family is wanting to escape the heat in north Florida. But we love it here..have a beautiful piece of property & family close by. & we have the best grocery store ever-Publix. So idk if we should move even. But climate change is real & very much felt here. I’ve lived here 40 years, & in the 80s & early to mid 90s it was so much colder. The heat has become unbearable. It doesn’t even get cold for 3-4 weeks out of the year usually. We usually have hot 🥵 Xmas now, on top of hot Halloweens (yesterday sucked!), & hot thanksgiving’s. I’m over it. My husband is a funeral director/embalmer, & they do well up there. So we’re thinking about it.
I recommend that you look in other states, perhaps in the north central US. The government in Massachusetts is authoritarian (meaning that they steal your money through excessive taxes and impose draconian rules on citizens and businesses to the point of driving both to leave the state). Everything is expensive here, and the political elites in Boston dump their high taxes and draconian rules on everyone in the poor western end of the state. DO NOT MOVE HERE. We are all trapped as tax slaves. Consider other states further west. @@seraphim_sounds
OK, let's fix a few pronunciations: Cambridge is Came - Bridge Amherst accent on the second syllable "herst" Falmouth - not "fall" as in the season but the" al "is pronounce like the mans name "Al" Northampton is not North-ampton it's North Hampton. Yes we add the missing "H" Worchester is Wuss-ster Salem is Sa-lem (Say - limb) not Sal - em would love to hear him pronounce Billerica, Leominster, Haverhill and Quincy just to name a few. (snicker snicker)
@steveparker2938 Thank you for that. I'm not from Massachusetts, but like you, am a stickler for people getting pronunciation right. You'd think people would take the time to research that way they sound like they know what they're talking about. I notice in Nebraska, a city called Papillion, which is French for butterfly, they pronounce it " PAh- pillyon" instead of Pappy-yown.
Being a native, these are no way near the "best" places to live in MA, also they are the most expensive, and elitist, especially Boston, Cambridge, and anywhere on the Cape, also the traffic there really sucks, expect to spend 2+ hours a day on your commute of 30 miles total round trip. Yeah, it's that bad! Been there done that. There are 351 towns and cities in MA, most are small rural farming/fishing communities, Worcester and Boston are the worst places to live in the state, highest crime and rent areas. Obviously whoever made this video never lived in MA, The South Coast has the best of all the MA features, and none of the traffic and overpriced tourist trap crap, followed by the foothills of the Appalachians in western MA, north and west of Worcester. Those along the northern NH/VT border region as well as the borders of RI and CT. Stay away from the cities unless you are a city dweller and prefer that kind of lifestyle, then New Bedford or Plymouth would probably be best for you if you really want historical culture and amazing dining, art and music scenes without all the traffic and obscenely high rents and properties. Anywhere in MA you will enjoy good schools, and amazing landscapes, with lots of trees, water, hills, and winding cow path roads filled with historical buildings and smart ass people who don't really put up with BS. Real People who actually matter, and know their history, and their responsibility to be leaders. At least that has been my experience over 56 years here.
My parents bought there 2 family house in cambridge in 1968 for $26,000 ,in 2017 we sold the house for 1.4 million. The buyers completely gutted the house and put over a half million into it then sold it as two units for 1.25 million each and thats nothing compaired to the houses in the rich neighborhoods
Great. We’ll prob never be able to move there from Florida. We love it here in north fl, but want to escape the heat. Climate change is real & very much felt here.
DO NOT move to Taxachusetts - you'll regret it. Its a nasty, angry, liberal moon-bat place. Winters here suck. You'll miss the heat - believe me.@@seraphim_sounds
Totally omitted the Berkshires in the very western end of the state. Probably the worst one of these I have seen yet. Butchered almost every town's name.
(east) falmouth-err here, lol. Its absolutely bipolar weather, and i would not trust boston.. Always side-eyeing boston and hyannis, alot of shootings.
Like the video, but it drives my crazy that you do not pronounce the names of towns and cities correctly. Born and raised in mass. It is like nails on chalkboard hearing you say names.
Ever since I was young i always wanted to live to Massachusetts. I’ve visited Boston and Cape cod and loved it . But unfortunately had to go back to New York where I been at all my life but if I had a choice I would move to cape cod
@@joyjayc825 it has lots of museams and we have down town in springfield and the east field mall is being shut down plus we have the ludlow mall and also the st pattriks day parade is here plllluuuussss stacues
Grew up in Dorchester. Lived in Quincy, Brockton, and Randolph before finally leaving back in 2012. Best decision of my life; I live in Texas now. I do miss the seasons (mostly the fall, the trees are just gorgeous) and the great food. Outside of that, I hate MA 10/10 will never visit again.
I lived in Texas for one year of hell. Was never so happy to leave a state in my life. Horrible weather, tornadoes,fleas, humidity, high rent, nothing to look at but flat earth and a sea of rooftops as far as the eye could see. And don’t forget the delightful “don’t mess with Texas” attitudes and horrible govt. They can keep it 👎
Were Ster? R U Sirius? Itz Wiss=tah! Con-kudd, C'mon, man. Say like a local. At least you are correct on the un-affordability of Con-kudd, Cambridge and Bawstin.
Please learn how to say the different towns in Massachusetts before you do a video... Like Worcester and Salem .. I am from Massachusetts and I found your video insulting to my state
How the hell did this dollar store text-to-speech AI voice come closer to pronouncing Worcester correctly than most actual humans do?? I mean yeah it still pronounced it wrong but at least it wasn't "Wor-Chester" or "Wor-Kester" like most non-New Englanders say it....
After more than 45 years away from Mass. people still comment on my accent! But almost no one not from Mass.. can pronounce the town names properly. Try Scituate, or Leominster or Weymouth. Much of New England have town names that are hard to pronounce and some of us are very proud of that: we got to correct people who are "from away". OK a little bit passive/aggressive... As long as they can say "Lobstah, and Chowdah" they get a pass.
Being a born/bred and lifelong resident of Mass I found it hilarious the way this pronounces the names of Mass towns incorrectly. For future reference it might be helpful to fix that.
Northampton is now over run with homeless and an opioid epidemic. Northampton is also way over priced and most of the galleries and venues are now vacant. Don’t move to Northampton
Dear MS Hi, How is everything. My first choice for living in Boston is Cambridge. Second choice is Beacon hill in Boston Third choice is Concord, with a larger lot size and near a golf course. Best Wishes and Profound Regards. Ch Zaheer Babar Warraich Advocate.
Moving to “THE Massachusetts?” What is this AI-generated garbage Edit: “It’s also a home to a number of charming residential neighborhoods.” *drone shot of Great Brook Valley housing complex*
I HAD to stop watching. The mispronunciations of the towns like Falmouth, Worcester, and Salem (FAAL-muth, WUS-tur or WUS-tah, and Say-lem are correct fml) were too much for me.
We t to graduate school in Boston-wanted to stay but couldn’t get a job. Moved back to Boston in late 1980s and there until middle of 1991. Now in Texas and have been here over 30 years. Would , unlike other poster who now lives in Texas , love to be back there but can no longer deal with snow and ice. Pronunciations of towns awful and lots of information wrong, but great pictures.
Rents in the Cape area pretty much start around 2600 and up to 4000-5000 a month. Houses start around 550000 to or a real fix up and go up to millions. Not affordable at all. Boston area even higher. So not affordable anywhere in eastern mass.
One major benefit of living in the Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts is that they have highways that'll take you to anywhere else. You can get in your car, wait in the traffic jam for a few hours, and then hit gas and never look back. The other good things are the trash everywhere, the endless supply of parking tickets, the antisocial & angry population, and having the benefit of freezing your ass off for 9 out of 12 months a year. I highly recommend it.
Our lesbian governor doesn't give a crap about affordable housing for the middle class just the illegal immigrants. Think about that before moving here.
This guy is really off with the rents and homes for sale. Mass is a great place to live but very expensive. Rents and homes are much higher than what this guy is saying.
