roxbury is a pit, it used to be a high class area, very affluent many many years ago, the south end has gone through several transitions right now it’s a gay community, dorchester used to be a nice area, massive yes, but now it’s on the dumpy side, mattapan used to be a nice area as well but that’s going down the tubes, southie used to be all white at one time D street projects was a tough area it got even worse back in the 90’s when they had to allow minorities into the projects, it got ugly for awhile there, whites were very very resistant to having minorities on their turf, and yes, there are a lot of projects in Roxbury, Southie did some of their projects over to look like townhouses, heath street is a killing zone as is mission hill, take your life in your hands going through those areas. I went back to my old neighborhood about 7 years ago and I was shocked at what I saw. The house is still there, it looks a little different than what it did when I was a kid but the owners have kept up the maintenance. The neighborhood itself has gotten pretty slum like, all the streets are one way, very odd!