I'm so curious about the tight knit communities in Boston. Is it really like the movies portray? I'm from a small suburb outside of L.A. I don't even think we have those communities around here. Maybe like the parts of LA? East Los, Watts, etc??
shareActually, Pinkdaisy678, Boston was once an amalgam of hide-bound, insular ethnic neighborhoods that were like small towns, and where outsiders of any kind, regardless of who they were or what they looked like, were totally unwelcome. It was a combo of race, turf and ethnicity that was at play there.
The advent of the Federal Court-mandated, large-scale, cross-city school busing program, however helped unite the white neighborhoods of Boston even more completely against the non-white areas of the city, particularly the black sections. Also, since many of these Boston neighborhoods, including Charlestown have become more gentrified in the past 2-3 decades, that, too, has brought about some change, as well.
Hope I've been of some hope here.