I remember Boston in the 1970s. Still had plenty of working class people, with working class bars and working class diners. I lived in boarding houses for a few years ($35 a week). When Jimmy Carter de-institutionalized the mentally ill, the streets got nastier, but for the most part I saw a decent mix of people at all levels of society. Today, a city like Boston has a layer of rich people and layer of losers. The “middle class” is gone and so is the “working class”. It’s no fun anymore.
Yeah.
I came home from the army to Boston in the late 1960's. Blue Hill Ave. was a burnt-out war zone. This was a result of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society where tens of thousands plantation workers moved here from the South. They held many riots and committed lots of crimes. This resulted in "White Flight" of the middle class. This happened across America.