In case you needed more motivation to keep fighting the evil ones...
EDIT: Lots of deleting going on below by the mods. I wondering who is trolling. Is that you, Cankles?
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I can speak to southie. been doing lots of business there for 15 years now. I can tell you real estate has gone through the roof and almost every 20 and 30 something wants to live there. lots folks bought for $30k 25 years ago are going for millions just for the land. 10 years ago it was coming along and well on it's way but still some undesirable areas.
it's really cleaned up and lots of the meth heads are gone or pushed to other areas away from the pricey real estate
it's still Massachusetts and a political shithole especially in Boston, but if your username checks out maybe you kinda like their politics (color me confused, ha)
Very interesting. I visited Boston for a conference 10 years ago, and did a half hour walk from my downtown hotel into Southie to see the apartment building (or condo building now?) whose exterior doubled as St. Eligius Hospital in the 1980's medical drama "St. Elsewhere," my all time favorite TV show.
On the show, Southie was portrayed as still being a lower middle/working class, somewhat rough and tumble neighborhood, which I've heard it really was back then. Even in 2012 on my Southie pilgramage by foot, I felt like I needed to have my head on a swivel just a bit. Certainly sounds like things have changed a lot... :)
yeh back in st Elsewhere days whitey bulger ("FBI informant") was running around getting away with murder and burying bodies in basements. even in 2012 if you were walking down main streets like Broadway, Dorchester Ave or Dorchester St you'd see fair amount of hopped meth heads, but if you went into east side around castle island and the beach area it was already nice and streets clean