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karantza t1_j6l5ofl wrote

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.

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Wickedweed t1_j6lesq8 wrote

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

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Moohog86 t1_j6mxva0 wrote

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

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snorkeling_moose t1_j6l1a0r wrote

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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3720-To-One t1_j6lcqi4 wrote

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.

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AnyRound5042 t1_j6o69za wrote

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

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snorkeling_moose t1_j6l2e8m wrote

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.

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Unable-Bison-272 t1_j6lwdvn wrote

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

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Cameron_james t1_j6mglfe wrote

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

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snorkeling_moose t1_j6lx0mf wrote

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

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Unable-Bison-272 t1_j6ly5le wrote

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

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snorkeling_moose t1_j6lzpxf wrote

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.

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tacknosaddle t1_j6ldy6r wrote

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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nahantdave t1_j6kyvlp wrote

Lynn

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RedDunce t1_j6lq5uk wrote

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

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DeffNotTom t1_j6l8uka wrote

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.

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_j6mg4jv wrote

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)

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spyda24 t1_j6nocio wrote

Dorchester has some nice good areas

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Narrow-Ad-440 t1_j6myd7l wrote

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).

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alexblablabla1123 t1_j6n3zd0 wrote

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.

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AnimeSnoopy t1_j6ln15c wrote

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

Ask me how I know

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R_Morley t1_j6ln8j2 wrote

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

Will somebody get me a vodka rocks?

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Melodramamine6 t1_j6mr37k wrote

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.

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sihtydaernacuoytihsy t1_j6nofh2 wrote

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.

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Quincyperson t1_j6na6rj wrote

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

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Melodramamine6 t1_j6ncdg8 wrote

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.

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