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tacknosaddle t1_j6ldy6r wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What parts of Boston and surrounding areas do you feel has an undeserved reputation? by SideBarParty

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.

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ReporterOther2179 t1_j6n86cb wrote

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

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tacknosaddle t1_j6n9qzl wrote

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.

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