Paul..I'm VERY familiar with Belchertown for many years (RT 202 and RT 9)...Ware, Granby, Bondville, Amherst area..
VERY few companies in Belchertown, VERY small town..and no downtown area..basically old historic (Shays way) stoned wall New England community with little to no stores, or companies.....great small village and commons, 10 minutes from the Quabbin (26 mile long reservoir, with 5 buried towns, that supplies most of all the water to Boston)...I frequent the VFW and Legion in Belchertown often, every summer ..all my buds and children live there...much nicer than the Cape....Belchertown is great place to raise a family, and yet be close enough to enjoy other non family activities...Belchertown is no where near the Cape or berry bogs, 3 hours apart...
I work for Unirversal forest products. We design and supply roof/floor trusses and wall panels. We're also a large lumber distributor as well as other ventures. 110 plants nation wide. I have yet to get up there but look forward to it. I think my company chooses places like that because of the isolation and tax breaks. I'll be in Fishkill NY next week for a seminar. I didn't want to go but someone from our plant has to so.........
Marc...stop at Waterfront Mary's in Webster...its historic...lol
BTW...Worcester is a dump, and always has been..my brother in law, owned all the Abdows Big Boy's restaurants and lives there...and thats only about 30 minutes max from Belchertown using RT 9, the backway..
Paul ...Fishkill isn't that far from Belchertown , maybe 1 1/2- 2 hours max...near the Taconic Parkway and US 84, and Newburg NY...actually not too bad of an area...I believe the prison is the #1 employer at Fishkill..its kinda semirural with small towns near..
nice thread marc. man you are lucky you don't have to deal with the traffic. i can't stand traffic. i want to live out there now. everything looks so peaceful.
thats the one!...an old hoar house once...on Webster lake...Mary is gone and dead now, but what a character she was...I have many a good times drinking there..
BTW, if ya didn't know... Chaubunagungamaug means....U fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle.....lol
That looks real nice Marc. Wish I could drive to work in that "traffic". Only 3 cars on the road?!?! I can't even leave my neighborhood without seeing 5 other cars lol.
Yeah I should do the same myself. I'm in a congested area myself. I hate the stop and go driving. It sucks BIG time! Then when you see cheaters running the shoulder it really boils your blood!!!!
I'll take a video and some pics on Monday on my way to school. Usually takes me 30 minutes to get home from school but takes well over an hour to get there
"Then when you see cheaters running the shoulder it really boils your blood!!!!"
lol i know what you mean. On my way to work monday, I went to get into the right turn lane, obeying the solid white line that indicates where the right turn lane starts. And some DOUCHE who was coming from way behind using the shoulder had to slow down his illegal shoulder driving/speeding so he honked at me and flicked me off.
There was no one else behind him so i stopped at the green right arrow, waited till the yellow was changing to red, and then punched it and left him to wait Seriously i'm glad the guy didn't have a gun cause i could see the incredible rage on his face, he was so p!ssed!!
I wish it snowed more here... Not all the time but we havnt had one snow that has stuck at all this winter. I love living in the country. There is no traffic, no cops... Nothing. I live about 1 mile from one of the biggest drug trafficing places on I-95. Goldrock NC. I was going to get my gf from school today and I swear to God himself, there was a dead homeless man laying beside the onramp to 95 south with about 10 cops around him and his sh!t was strewn everywhere. Funny that I live in the middle of no where with a place like that 2 mins from my house. haha
