[Gay State Conservative]

My Dad was born in the slums of South Boston ("Southie",to natives) about 100 years ago,the son of destitute Irish immigrants.He was the youngest of seven and grew up in,and came of age in,the toughest of times.

He and his six siblings worked damn hard to get out of that cesspool and succeeded.They wound up in towns/areas like Belmont,Newton and Wellesley (all upper middle class suburbs of Boston).

People are leaving Baltimore for the same reason that my elders left Boston...they're smart,willing to work and want something *much* nicer than what even song writer Randy Newman recognized as a bottomless pit.

It wasn't rocket science then and it ain't now.

[Mears]

There are now properties selling for over a million dollars in Southie,even a new single house.

It’s gentrified.

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[Mears]

There are now properties selling for over a million dollars in Southie,even a new single house.

It’s gentrified.

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