Boston, NYC, DC - Best place to raise kids?

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Live in NW DC. Kids in DCPS. They have loved every aspect of their childhood here. It also helps they have had the same friends since preschool. We also have a ton of extended family here on both sides and a huge backyard. I think your experience is determined by where exactly you live, your community, your friends, etc. Some of it is pure luck. I know people who were resistant to living in DC at first but made a strong community network and now don’t want to leave.

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You sound Ward 3 Wealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Asian isn't diverse to you?
Why didn't you pull the Milton statistics?

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that Boston is segregated and racist--it is quiet and always shocking. They are also the most conservative liberals I have ever met. DC is a bunch of crazy social climbers/strivers who are also racist. Different since most Boston people I knew had intergenerational wealth. In DC, they are also crazy about schools being as white as possible. And while I say "hi" to my neighbors in DC, I have had neighbors who won't even acknowledge my existence. You have to have lived in my neighborhood at least a decade to be acknowledged.

If I had money in Boston, I would live on Cambridgeport and send my kids to the Cambridge Friends School and then the Commonwealth School. I don't like DC enough--except the MD part, like Silver Spring--to live there long term. I definitely don't think the environment is good for kids. NYC I haven't had the chance to live in, which I regret.

I have moved a lot. Every year or two when the oldest two were little. I’ve lived in Cambridge and don’t understand why you would live in Cambridge and not send your kids to Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School.

You’re just another hypocrite who talks about segregation and instead of going to the city high school which mirrors the city population you would send them to a $50k a year school across the river which is mostly Asian and White. An assumption can be made that you’re Asian or White and want to self segregate.
Cambridge has equal amounts of Whites living in the city and going to public school in the city, unlike Boston or DC.

Pp here. Well my kids aren't white and I want them to get the education I never got because my family didn't have the social and cultural capital to know about. Frankly, if I had been smart and had bought in Cambridgeport 20 years ago, I might still live there and I would probably send my kids to CRLS because they could meet me at my office and we would walk home or I would put them in a conference room to do homework. But alas, it didn't work out that way. I do appreciate the screeds on here about how racist Boston is because I have seen it and experienced it personally. But I am not going to let keep my kids from getting an education they deserve. Just because they aren't White or Asian doesn't mean I have to send them to specific schools.

So why would you want your children to go to a high school in the middle of Boston with all White and Asian kids if it’s racist?

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Take a look at these statistics for Whitman high school in Bethesda, then go take a walk around Bethesda Row and tell me that is different from Lexington. I'll wait.

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Anonymous wrote:lol Massachusetts is all crackers

Yes, that's why the education system is so terrible, ranked last in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that Boston is segregated and racist--it is quiet and always shocking. They are also the most conservative liberals I have ever met. DC is a bunch of crazy social climbers/strivers who are also racist. Different since most Boston people I knew had intergenerational wealth. In DC, they are also crazy about schools being as white as possible. And while I say "hi" to my neighbors in DC, I have had neighbors who won't even acknowledge my existence. You have to have lived in my neighborhood at least a decade to be acknowledged.

If I had money in Boston, I would live on Cambridgeport and send my kids to the Cambridge Friends School and then the Commonwealth School. I don't like DC enough--except the MD part, like Silver Spring--to live there long term. I definitely don't think the environment is good for kids. NYC I haven't had the chance to live in, which I regret.

I live in Silver Spring, and if I lived in Cambridge I would send my kids to Cambridge Public schools, especially Cambridge Rindge and Latin. It's very strange to me that you wouldn't do that, given that you like Silver Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Take a look at these statistics for Whitman high school in Bethesda, then go take a walk around Bethesda Row and tell me that is different from Lexington. I'll wait.

DP here. I went to college and grad school in Boston. There are obviously less black people in Boston than DC. Boston is not the place to go for diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Take a look at these statistics for Whitman high school in Bethesda, then go take a walk around Bethesda Row and tell me that is different from Lexington. I'll wait.

DP here. I went to college and grad school in Boston. There are obviously less black people in Boston than DC. Boston is not the place to go for diversity.

Why do you only define diversity as black and white?

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Take a look at these statistics for Whitman high school in Bethesda, then go take a walk around Bethesda Row and tell me that is different from Lexington. I'll wait.

DP here. I went to college and grad school in Boston. There are obviously less black people in Boston than DC. Boston is not the place to go for diversity.

There are a lot more Black people living in DC than in Boston. Why would that matter to anyone?

If you want to live in a diverse part of a city and don’t lie, none of you do, then Queens NYC would be the place.

Queens is also a perfect example of how different ethnic groups prefer to live with people from the same ethnic group. There’s a large Asian neighborhood in Flushings, Little India and Tibet
In Jackson Heights. Coney Island area there are Russians, Ukrainians, Eastern Europeans.

You walk all the different streets and you know what neighborhood you’re in by the language and signs.

Nowhere in NYC is as diverse as Queens.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Take a look at these statistics for Whitman high school in Bethesda, then go take a walk around Bethesda Row and tell me that is different from Lexington. I'll wait.

DP here. I went to college and grad school in Boston. There are obviously less black people in Boston than DC. Boston is not the place to go for diversity.

Why do you only define diversity as black and white?

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Lived 20 years in Cambridge /Somerville / Boston. It was incredibly diverse partly due to the number of schools and constant influx of international students , researchers, faculty. Sure it doesn’t have as many black people as DC but it’s an incredibly international area. I find it very odd that some posters call Boston racist and provincial because it doesn’t have as many of a certain group as DC.

It’s a no brainer for raising kids that families value good public schools and safety. Boston happens to do much better than DC on both fronts. And yes it has less black people. Does it make people who live there automatically racist and provincial?

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Wow

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that Boston is segregated and racist--it is quiet and always shocking. They are also the most conservative liberals I have ever met. DC is a bunch of crazy social climbers/strivers who are also racist. Different since most Boston people I knew had intergenerational wealth. In DC, they are also crazy about schools being as white as possible. And while I say "hi" to my neighbors in DC, I have had neighbors who won't even acknowledge my existence. You have to have lived in my neighborhood at least a decade to be acknowledged.

If I had money in Boston, I would live on Cambridgeport and send my kids to the Cambridge Friends School and then the Commonwealth School. I don't like DC enough--except the MD part, like Silver Spring--to live there long term. I definitely don't think the environment is good for kids. NYC I haven't had the chance to live in, which I regret.

I live in Silver Spring, and if I lived in Cambridge I would send my kids to Cambridge Public schools, especially Cambridge Rindge and Latin. It's very strange to me that you wouldn't do that, given that you like Silver Spring.

My daughter went to King Open for kindergarten before we moved. We have friends and family still there and are in the public schools. I never understood the people who bought a house in Cambridge and had nothing to do with the community. Segregating their kids from the majority of Cambridge kids.

Cambridge Rindge and Latin has a program for qualified jr. and sr students can take classes at Harvard Extension School. They also have a free six week program at Harvard for CRL HS working with professors from the education department. If your kid is studious they’ll do alright.

Private school can be considered racist if you live in a diverse city but will not register your kids in the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Take a look at these statistics for Whitman high school in Bethesda, then go take a walk around Bethesda Row and tell me that is different from Lexington. I'll wait.

DP here. I went to college and grad school in Boston. There are obviously less black people in Boston than DC. Boston is not the place to go for diversity.

Why do you only define diversity as black and white?

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Lived 20 years in Cambridge /Somerville / Boston. It was incredibly diverse partly due to the number of schools and constant influx of international students , researchers, faculty. Sure it doesn’t have as many black people as DC but it’s an incredibly international area. I find it very odd that some posters call Boston racist and provincial because it doesn’t have as many of a certain group as DC.

It’s a no brainer for raising kids that families value good public schools and safety. Boston happens to do much better than DC on both fronts. And yes it has less black people. Does it make people who live there automatically racist and provincial?

Boston has a large Latino population and Haitians. People choose where they want to live.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're not white, Boston must be removed from this list.

If you are white, but support diverse communities, Boston loses a lot of points. I wouldn’t pick Boston mostly because I wouldn’t want to raise kids in a place with such thinly veiled racism.

So then between DC and NY I think it's just your preferences and personality. I pick close in suburbs of DC because its the easiest to navigate, decent commute to the city and also large houses with yards. Good public schools but also private options nearby. Lots of families. I also prefer government and politics gossip to entertainment and beauty gossip.

Someone been watching movies from the 1970’s or 1990’s.

Do you know Boston history? Have you lived there?

How are the DC high schools with their 90% minority population any different than Boston’s high schools that are 85% minority?

DC has more violent crime than any other state. 812 per 100,000 people.
Massachusetts had 322 violent crimes per 100,000 people. Boston was listed as 2nd safest city in the country. DC on the other hand has seen crime increased quite a bit with a 36% increase in homicides.

DC and Boston are similar when it comes to size, income, education and population. Boston and all of Massachusetts is safe from groups trying to crush people’s civil rights. It’s virtually 100% democrat and right to choose is safe her.

You ned to be current on this “thinly veiled” racism claim and how it’s different from anywhere else.



https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/

NP. I currently live in a suburb of Boston after moving from a different, more diverse, part of the country and some people here definitely come across as a bit racist because the area is so homogenous and people aren't used to interacting with people of other races.

I live in Lexington now, our first home was in Milton, both with plenty of diversity.

Per 2020 Census Data, Lexington is 1.5% Black, 2.3% Hispanic, and 25.4% Asian. Look, I get that you consider that "plenty of diversity" compared to other parts of Massachusetts, but compared to other parts of the country it's really not, which is my point.

Take a look at these statistics for Whitman high school in Bethesda, then go take a walk around Bethesda Row and tell me that is different from Lexington. I'll wait.

DP here. I went to college and grad school in Boston. There are obviously less black people in Boston than DC. Boston is not the place to go for diversity.

Why do you only define diversity as black and white?

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Lived 20 years in Cambridge /Somerville / Boston. It was incredibly diverse partly due to the number of schools and constant influx of international students , researchers, faculty. Sure it doesn’t have as many black people as DC but it’s an incredibly international area. I find it very odd that some posters call Boston racist and provincial because it doesn’t have as many of a certain group as DC.

It’s a no brainer for raising kids that families value good public schools and safety. Boston happens to do much better than DC on both fronts. And yes it has less black people. Does it make people who live there automatically racist and provincial?

Boston has a large Latino population and Haitians. People choose where they want to live.

NP: exactly. Boston has plenty of diversity, just not the right races in the eyes of some.