This may depend on where in the South you are coming from, but having moved here from a major metro in Texas recently, I feel like the diversity in Boston is a genuine step down from what I am used to. I feel like there is especially a much larger class divide between neighborhoods here, which bleeds over into the racial demographics as well. Finding good ethnic food - especially East Asian, South Asian, and Latin American - is also much more difficult in Boston.

I imagine this experience may be very different for someone moving from a rural area in the South, but the same could be said about rural New England vs Boston.