Modern Boston slangs, idioms

[paraph]

Hey there folks,
I need a little help with current Boston area slang. My attempts at googling have brought me to multiple, dubious travel guides and endless copy-paste pages whose info seems to originate from the Boston page of the Language Schools site and relies heavily on an exaggerate Boston accent

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[funwithrage]

But if your character is more high class, he probably won't be using that.

Ha, maybe. ;) I'd describe my background as "upper middle class" and pretty much everyone of my generation swears as punctuation.

One of the things I've noticed about most of urban Boston is that it has twelve and a half billion students--none of whom know how to use a GODDAMN CROSSWALK, but that's beside the point--so you get less of the regional MA stuff than you might otherwise. I've been here ten-ish years, and bubbler/packey/dungarees are pretty rare, although the other things you mention, definitely.

I know we say "pricey" where some of my NW Coast friends say "spendy."

Traffic circles/roundabouts are "rotaries", and they can collectively die in a goddamn fire.

The subway is either "the T" or "the Red/Green/Orange/Blue/Silver Line". They are always fucked. All of them. Forever. But driving is worse. (Also, driving in a place where the streets are both wide and sensibly arranged is weird to us, as are places where people don't hate everyone else on the road. Mom and I had a guy in Pittsburgh slow down to let us cross the street, and both of us were like "...is this a ruse?")

[full_metal_ox]

...Mom and I had a guy in Pittsburgh slow down to let us cross the street, and both of us were like "...is this a ruse?")

Pittsburgh--where merging is a martial art! (Disclaimer: the foregoing observation is based on the space of one weekend's visit every summer.)