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Best places to live in
New England
Launched on Nov. 9, 2006
New England residents, you now
have a chance to tell our readership why you think your community
is the best place to live.
Send
us your feedback on why
you think your town is the best place to live and we'll consider
it for publication in a positive, upbeat forum, soon to be posted.
Your feedback can consist of a few sentences to several hundred
words. It could be about your neighborhood, the people and businesses
that make you want to stay, scenery, community pride and services,
etc. It's up to you, just write how you feel!
As a response to the most recent
book "The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America,"
by Dave Gilmartin, we want to give all people a chance to talk
about the virtues of where they live. We believe Gilmartin's
approach was wrong, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
We know, for example, that while cities like Fitchburg, Mass.,
and Allston, Mass., were rated amongst the worst cities in Gilmartin's
book, there are people we know that wouldn't move from those
communities, given the friendships made, the feeling
of community pride, and services offered. Yes, there are significant
problems in those communities (there are issues in every community),
but there are people who could move from Fall River and Allston,
and choose not to. They simply love where they live. That ultimately
says a lot about those places, so viciously and unfairly attacked
in Gilmartin's book.
There's no reason to make people
feel bad about where they live; the author seems to be fueled
by wanting to get attention, getting sales and writing with a
"shock value" angle, in this writer's opinion. We will
have none of that at VisitingNewEngland.com. We are here to make
you feel good about New England.
We indeed like to keep things
positive at VisitingNewEngland.com, and are always interested
in what you consider the best of New England. In this case, we
look forward to hearing about your great town or city.
Best of all, there's no book
to buy and it's all information that will make you feel good
about New England!
Send
us your feedback today
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Readers write about the best places to live in New England:
Tomaston, Ct., and Bethel,
Maine
I have two candidates, Tomaston
Ct and Bethel Maine. I nominate both for the same reasons they
are picture post card examples of friendly small towns. Tomaston
even has an opera house!
John, no community given
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