Mansfield, Ct has about much use for "The Other" (you know, illegal immigrant references, "boink! - ouch!") as Martha's Vineyard has. You wouldn't know it though. You can get a deep summer tan from the shine of signal virtue, lawn signs on Mansfield country roads.
An actual illegal immigrant - the kind you meet in Willimantic's Walmart isles - might mistakenly think Mansfield is a soft touch. The reality is that Mansfield Parks and Recreation Department (no doubt with a cross reference from the Martha's Vineyard playbook) is more likely to hand them a useful map as to where to find gardening, poultry processing, or otherwise job opportunities - and this is key - somewhere else. Don't rape anyone on the way there. <- *THIS IS SATIRE* (Mansfield can be cruelly humorless at times.
That brings us to a far more nefarious "other" lurking far closer than the Texas/Mexico border - Ashford and Willington. The whole Region 19 thing is sooo awkward. I mean everybody knows sports are healthy things but then there's the issue of two teams, Mansfield and anybody else. This is a problem for Mansfield Parks and Recreation - the other team is using outdoor parks that Mansfield taxpayers have now designated as a cost center.
Mansfield Parks and Recreation is baking in class warfare in their ten year plan. Mansfield's idea of "community" means that tightly coupled Region 19 communities are treated like "the Other" and welcomed with a Welcome tax on top of the cost of participation in their ever-so-virtuous public services.
It's penny ante stuff but... still - for real?
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