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Lynn

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Southie is somehow thought of as both desirable and as an abject shithole at the same time. It either gets mentioned as a hip and trendy neighborhood or as a destitute working-class hellhole. Whereas in reality it's neither, it's just a very vanilla milquetoast little area with nothing special going for it. People rate it as -10 or +10, but it's really just a 0 on that scale.

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So I suppose I should have clarified that maybe I was thinking more on the scale of people both from/in MA and people moving here with no context. I agree with you that anyone with a modicum of awareness from the greater Boston area knows that it isn't GoodwillhuntingLand anymore.

Came here to say this. Lynn is awesome.

Malden had a bad reputation; whenever I told a local I moved there I got lots of shocked looks. But Malden is great! It's friendly, there's lots of great restaurants and shops and stuff, and it is not completely gentrified into oblivion yet.

But, but, the rhyme says...

The first time in saw a gun I was 15 at the Lynn skatepark and I was being robbed lol.

But Lynn has gotten less and less terrible over the years.

Hollywood still seems to think that Southie is a working class neighborhood.

When in reality it’s all just 20-something finance bros and nurses.

Twenty years ago it was well on its way to what it has become. According to older family friends who grew up there it started shifting when "the yuppies" started moving to the neighborhood in the late 80s and early 90s.

Shhhhh, don’t give it away!

Wish I could’ve bought one of those old Victorians on the upper west side before prices really went nuts. Walking distance to the Fells and the orange line plus good food and beer in Malden center. One of my favorite areas

Beacon hill. Good luck walking up that hill every fucking day. And then 4 flights of nearly vertical stairs.

Ask me how I know

I love all my neighborhoods equally. That said, I do not care for Beacon Hill.

Will somebody get me a vodka rocks?

Ummm idk about undeserved tbh, I lived in Baltimore for 5 years and tbh Lynn is the only time I've ever thought like "this dude night actually kill us" when I've had a gun pulled on me

Good Will Hunting is possibly the most cloying, maudlin and irritating movie ever made.

Yeah it totally sucked, it definitely doesn't deserve the 8.3/10 rating it has on IMDB. What a shitty movie that totally doesn't have great character development. Everybody loves it, but you're right to shit on it because you're so fucking cool

I don’t claim to be cool. I just think the movie sucks.

Cool. Keep thinking you're special and like, totally rad. I'm sure a ton of people disagree with you, which only makes you so much cooler.

Watch the movie again. It’s cheesy as fuck.

Boston is great for shopping 🤣

Chelsea

Lynn is rad but the coast stinks to high hell in the summer.

West Lynn Creamery closing has helped but they still have an open air treatment plant off the Lynnway and near sentient red tide algae blooms come late August (and now creeping into July)

It's away. The secret ship has sailed.

I can't help but wonder what Will Hunting would have said if that grad student didn't like apples.

West Roxbury has everything I need. Decent rent with a parking spot and a balcony, tons of restaurants but for some reason it’s really boring here. I think it’s ‘cause I lived in Somerville for 22 years. It’s growing on me though. A bike lane would be nice.

How do you know?

And an awesome bike path. That will probably one day reach Boston.

Assembly, extremely overpriced and super commercialized, not to mention the traffic on weekends. I don’t know who would want to spend $4k per month on one of those “luxury apartments”. Only redeeming quality is access to the Orange Line and Encore (if that’s your thing).

Nah you're just a grouch.

American households on average spent $10k on cars in 2021. So $833/month. $4000-$833=$3167, often shared by 2 young professionals at $1583.5 per person. Seems perfectly reasonable to be 15 min away from downtown (by T).

I lived in Medford/Malden on the range line for a couple years, at much cheaper rent tho. The commute to downtown office was 30min except a few bad days.

Southie started changing when the ‘racist hellhole’ reputation grew stale. Because for most people the past is unknown.

I think at least one part of the appeal to the post-college twenty-somethings who started to move there in droves was it having a "cool" reputation based on the Whitey Bulger mob history.

I used to call it West Roxboring. But yes, a driveway and a yard

I lived here until I was 6 a mile away from my current apartment until my family moved to Brookline. Hope I’m not gonna die here.

Dorchester has some nice good areas

It's boring because it's really old.

Boston as a whole is 17% age 18-24; WR is 4%. Boston's 23% 25-34; WR is 13%. So where the city as a whole is 40% young adults, WR is less than a fifth. It's mostly families and the elderly.

And yes it needs bike lanes.

That's only because there are no working class neighborhoods left so why not just use the old standby

There was literally just a murder in mattapan the other day

More money than God, my guess

Nooooo way. 😏

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