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"buying every piece of crap apartment house in Wormtown"

Those of us in Wormtown are very proud of our crappy apartment houses. You can even buy posters of the local triple deckers. I guess the reasoning is if you have a crappy building that's one thing, but it happens to be old and three stories high, then it's got "character".

You're in Worcester?

Welcome to FR.

Some of those old three deckers were really gorgeous. I owned a few that were custom jobs, built by the early jewish
families. Used to be able to recite the different styles, like Queen Anne and others but I've forgotten a lot.

Wormtown isn't all bad. The music scene was always good. Saw the Stones live at the Cove. Used to know Ralph pretty well. I hear the Chadwick SQ. Diner is still there but don't know if Ralph is still the owner.

Some great pubs and diners too. The Boynton on Highland street was always good. We'd go in after work for the all you can eat steamers and wouldn't leave til they ran out of clams.

I used to make collection rounds on friday nights through all the low rent district around Piedmont st area where we had crack dealers, hookers and biker gangs, and those were the good tenants. I would walk in the front door of the Cardinal or El Coqui and those places would empty out in a rush. Most everyone in the joint owed me rent and the rest would run because the others did.

A lot of happy memories of ol Wormtown.

So tell me, if you're a native, what's the absolute best view of worcester?