What kind of area is Fitchburg? I must confess I never heard of it before this.
No reason you should have. It’s scummy.
Fitchburg is an old industrial town about forty miles west of Boston. A guy shot a bear on his porch there a few years ago, so it is in a somewhat rural area. It is pretty run down and the population seems to trending Carribean, though it is about 80% white, 15% latino and a little of everything else. There are still some nice neighborhoods left.
My wife took her car to the dealer there for some recall work recently and we went through some neighborhoods where you made sure the doors where locked.