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Welcome to the Fallout lore cast,

the podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout.

In preparing for this episode about Good Neighbor, I realized that there is a very interesting dynamic at play, not only in this location in Fallout 4, but in the history of this location, the very buildings

that a number of the buildings in this community are modeled after.

And what was going on in Boston historically compared to what happens in Fallout 4.

And that dynamic, that balance is between freedom and crime.

This dynamic is something that has plagued the United States since its inception.

As an American, we like to consider ourselves the land of the free.

But the balance between how much freedom

do you get and how much is too much? How much freedom is a good thing, and yet how much freedom

allows people to do nefarious things that actually work against the goodness of the culture?

In today's episode, we're going to take a look at the foundations of Good Neighbor.

We're going to reflect back on the way that Good Neighbor was founded in Fall Out 4 and the reasons

for its foundation.

But we're also going to find that Good Neighbor in fall at four echoes some of the very themes of a free libertarian kind of society and the balance between that and the seedy underbelly of historic Boston. Before we get into all the historical detail about the real world Boston and this specific part of Boston, the financial district, which is where Good Neighbor is built, we have to do a little recap here about

what actually happens in Fallout 4 and how this becomes a community, a small village,

I guess you could say, a neighborhood. According to the Vault Dweller Survival Guide map,

it explains Good Neighbor like this, Built on an ancient area of Boston,

once known as Scullay Square, Good Neighbor was founded in the year 2240 by a group of criminals

banished from Diamond City. But appearances can be deceiving, although plagued with problems,

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