skygiants

I dunno, you maybe get a slightly classier tier of garbage in the Back Bay, but there's a reason September 1 is Allston Christmas; for sheer volume the Back Bay has too few students for the best trash picks. I got an amazing papasan off the street in Somerville, and a whole futon; you're not finding that in the Back Bay. Also I went to high school at Commonwealth and Dartmouth only 10 years after this book and the alley behind Comm Ave was mostly just rats.

On the other hand, you probably get a much better class of identical twin cousin / femme fatale long con hijinks in the Back Bay. The Devil probably doesn't spend much time buying souls in 1970s Allston-Brighton.