i gigged Salford for years - The Drill Hall Vaults, Mulvaney's Bar.

i taught for years in Brum. the rough bits Newtown, lived on the Hamstead rooad Handsworth. my wife taught in aston. the older teachers remberd ian cambell's kids being there.
in erdington - a landlady wouldn't rent us her flat cos we weren't Irish.

Boston is qualitatively different. go there and see it - you'll see what i mean.