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There is a big variety of community hubs, including Catholic churches, Protestant churches, synagogues, and Spanish and Portuguese languages churches. Most people in the community send their children to the relatively large city schools, which are spread out
While Framingham was for a long time a somewhat rural farming town, it went through a period of industrialization, and then de-industrialization, like many other cities. It still has some farmland, and some abandoned factories, but is largely made up of a more suburban North side, and a slightly more dense, and poorer, South side. There are a large variety of ethnic and cultural communities, including Brazilian, Russian, Chinese, Haitian, Salvadoran, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and many others
Many people in the community commute to work in Boston (this skews white collar, but also includes lower wage workers), and then many people also work in the community, in retail, municipal government, service industry, and other jobs
The community perennially faces concerns over adequate funding (in particular for schools), social services (in particular, homeless and addiction support), economic development
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