Lawrence or Lowell?

[maveric]

Poll question: Lawrence or Lowell?

Not many here will know what I'm talking about.

[Bluebear]

1. Other: Billerica

Just cause I like saying it.

[maveric]

3. Lawrence is the Fallujah of the North East.

And my hometown.

[jonnyblitz]

4. dracut

:P

[maveric]

5. OK, Methuen! I was born there.

[jonnyblitz]

8. haverhill

:P

[maveric]

13. My dad was an editor for the Haverhill Gazette for 30 years.

I have fond memories of Hayvrul.

[AlCzervik]

9. Billerica is Somerville with trees

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. *snort*

ain't that the truth. Billerica used to be pretty rough. Bikers, trailers, and city folk from Somerville, Charlestown, and East Boston settled there looking for more land.

[AlCzervik]

14. yup, there and Wilmington

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. It's pronounced "B'rica"

Before it was a yuppie town, it was a rough and tumble suburb full of ex-pats from East Boston (Italians) and Charlestown (Irish). Pinehurst is still pretty colorful.

[maveric]

15. A lot of mob guys lived in B'rica.

A couple of my friends, Dad's were made guys who settled into that burb.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. Yup, one of my ex-boyfriends grew up next door in Burlington

which is still pretty Mobby.

Lynnfield is also...

But nothing beats Saugus or Revere. They don't even hide it there.

[pres2032]

2. Mike Lowell!!!!

[DemBones DemBones]

6. I voted "Lawrence" because

one of my grandmothers was born there and I'm trying to trace her family (Irish in Massachusetts, like that was rare in the late 1800's!)

But maybe I should have voted "Lowell" since I used to date a guy from Lowell in the 1960's.

What's YOUR answer?

[maveric]

7. "Lawrrie". I grew up there.

When I was a kid Lawrence was still a great industrial center with a rich ethnic background.
Now its a bombed out, burned down, wasteland where insurance scamming is the main souce of income.
I was told that carjacking was invented in Lawrence during the mid 60's.

[DemBones DemBones]

18. Well, carjacking was happening in Norfolk, VA, by 1965, though

it hadn't been named yet.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Lowell-at least there are nice parts. And trees.

my very nice cousins live in the Belvedere section of Lowell. It's practically rural!

[Redstone]

17. Lawrence or Lowell? And no third choice?

You're merciless. Not even Chelmsfid? Or Ayuh? Or Pepprull? Or Baxbro?

Unless the Parrot Hatter store Lowell is still open. That would redeem it.

Redstone