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[QUOTE="Bambrewer, post: 1110583, member: 4728"]
I grew up a couple towns away. I lived in lowell back in the 90s and then moved out and back again in 08. We always hung out here in our late teens early twentys. All the good bars were here. It's an old mill town that when manufacturing moved over seas the world moved on with out. Lot of drugs. Lot of Asian gangs. Back in the 90s it was more the Irish and then the Vietnamese moved in. Around 05 the town started doing stuff to clean it up. Moved a Red Sox affiliate in town and a minor league nhl team. They built a large venue for concerts and stuff like that. Now umass has bought almost the whole side of the city we live in and they have made the old mills into apartment office space or dorms. There is still a lot of poverty all around the build up. Most of the town is multifamily homes that everytime there is a fire in one you here about 65 people being homeless. We live on a street that's kind of an island. Mostly old people who have been here forever. Quite until about a year ago. One end of the street an Asian family  moved in that has 12 kids in this 3 bedroom house. The other end this big old house was bought and made into a half way house. It s the type of place you can't walk down the street after dark two streets over. There has been a lot of shootings here the last year or two within in half a mile of us. There is this huge bus like mobil strategic police thing they park at the end of the road when it happens and keep it there for a few weeks before moving to the next site... Seems it spends half the year at the end of our road though.
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