South Boston is a ghetto hood where Irish gang members have ruled the streets for centuries. Housing projects, drug dealers, and homicides are a usual sight in southie.
It's an odd mixture of ghetto, redneck, middle-class conservatism. The poverty level is through the roof and ignorance runs rampant. The only good thing is that the cost of living in extremely low, that's about it.
The act of giving and/or receiving a kick in the groin before having lit firecracker thrown down your pants by a guy probably named "Shawn" wearing a Bruins jersey who runs off with his skullcrushers brown bag yelling "GO SOX!".
Small town where everyone knows everyone. An all around wonderful place to grow up, where one never sees absolute poverty or extradornary wealth. It is where one has a past, present, and furture with friends and family. A place where it is common to have known someone since birth, and go from the preschool thru college with someone.
A small town in the middle of no where that does not welcome everyone as they claim to. If you are not from here you are an outsider.
They are some of the poorest people I have ever seen; some live without running water or electricity. So don't let anyone tell you there isn't poverty or extreme wealth, b/c I've seen that too.