| Title: | Maynard -- Center of the Universe |
| Notice: | Welcome to our new digs... |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
| Created: | Wed Aug 06 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 20 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 509 |
| Total number of notes: | 4062 |
Do you think Maynard has a strong sense of community? This might seem like a strange question to ask, but over the last 15 years I have become very aware of what a sense of community means. I have never lived in Maynard, but I worked at the Mill in 1980-81 and have visited Maynard several times a year since then: to go to my dentist (Dr. Karp), to visit friends at the Mill, to go on a Volkswalk (1993?), etc. It seems like a nice place to live. I seriously considered living there when I worked at the Mill, but I didn't because my job was slated to move to Marlboro (even before I took the job) and I didn't want to commute that far, nor did I want to move again in a year. Since then my work has been too far from Maynard to conveniently commute from there. Based on the time I have spent here and on reading this conference, I sense that Maynard has a strong sense of community. Certainly stronger than some of the adjoining towns, such as Boxboro.
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| 488.1 | One Yes vote | NOKNOK::HIGGINS | Wed Aug 09 1995 16:35 | 7 | |
I've lived in Maynard for 15 years and have grown to love it. I was
brought up in West Concord (which is sometimes called "East Maynard"
and would never have considered living in Maynard until I found out
that I couldn't afford to live in the town I grew up in! People are
very real and down to earth in Maynard.
Mark Higgins
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| 488.2 | I'm stayin'! | ALFA1::MASON | The law of KARMA hasn't been repealed | Wed Aug 09 1995 21:05 | 13 |
I recently decided to look for a house. I'd live in Maynard for 5 1/2
years in a condo, and thought that I wanted to move closer in to the
city. After looking in a number of towns I decided that Maynard was
the place I wanted to continue to live in.
I like the people, the location, the town. I wish and hope that it
will prosper and that we'll get more stores downtown. I think Maynard
has a unique quality to it that I don't see in other towns. Maybe its
because of its size, or the combination of people. Whatever it is, I
like it, and I've decided to make it home for a lot longer than I ever
planned to.
****andrea****
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