Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: 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

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: 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

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: 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

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: The community perennially faces concerns over adequate funding (in particular for schools), social services (in particular, homeless and addiction support), economic development