With my wife working at Clark we certainly have a wide-range of towns we can consider. She's a bit 'done' with country living at this point. And, the houses on the west side are just fantastic homes architecturally. There are so many 1890-1930 Victorians and Arts/Crafts home there. I've always thought the houses in Worcester are as awesome as you can find anywhere.
Plus, ORH is finally achieving it's long-sought and long-promised renaissance: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/658263218/forget-oakland-or-hoboken-worcester-mass-is-the-new-it-town so despite the price of the west-side homes, I think it would be a positive investment. That said, I'm not sure what we'll do with 4000 sf (other than need to buy an awful lot of furniture).
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