BTW, me thinks you have your heart in Boston & rather than long for the day you return, you, for multiple reasons choose to hate where you now live.
Oh, Boston ain't perfect. I'll give you just a sample as I don't want to deride a wonderful town like Boston..........
"[T]he school and the cruel ghettos of Boston move at cross-purposes. The political economy of Boston and this country creates the poverty and indolence of the ghettos, which in turn produce our students.
nea.org
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON
Ghettos - Changing the Consequences of Ethnic Isolation
Black and poor in Boston
BLACKS IN BOSTON
The concentration of African-Americans in the Boston metropolitan area is striking. While small populations of blacks increasingly live in areas on the outskirts of the metropolitan area -- this would not have been true thirty years ago -- the bulk of the black population resides in a single narrow north-south strip, running along Blue Hill Avenue, and including Roxbury, Dorchester, and some of Mattapan.
POOR IN BOSTON
The black center of Boston is also the poorest district of the Boston metro area. While there are black sections that are not poor, and poor sections that are not black, the overall connection between poverty and segregation in the Boston metropolitan area is striking.
bos.frb.org
Boston review
Better Neighborhoods?
............. I could take Owen Fiss to streets in Boston where gangs prey upon people down on their luck, where drugs are almost everywhere available, where a climate of futility, and even despair, is to be found, where some residents wish they could get out, though some stand fast and firmly live out a sincere loyalty to a given section of the city--and where, I suspect (in South Boston, say, or Chelsea, or parts of the North End or the South End) the lure of Quincy, of Everett and Marblehead, goes unnoticed, as well as the ever-present seductions of gentrification. (Talk about "better neighborhoods" that some working-class people, black and white alike, have no interest in joining!)
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