Talk:Winnecunnet Pond

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Did you know... that some Norton, Massachusetts residents complain they have trouble selling their homes because Lake Winnecunnett is "a weed-infested, mosquito breeding swamp"?

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I don't even live in Massachusetts, but I imagine that I'd be slightly upset if a potential buyer did a Google Search on my neighborhood and came to a hasty (and incorrect?) conlusion that it was an uninhabitable swamp. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.150.177.5 (talk) 17:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a flattery service. That information may be inconvenient for some people, is not relevant. 208.81.43.46 (talk) 00:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]