BOSTON -- A Boston University grad is raising some hackles with his new book, "The Absolute Worst Places To Live in America," which names Fitchburg, Mass., and Boston's Allston neighborhood as among the worst.

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Dave Gilmartin, 30, originally hails from New Jersey, which he said helped qualify him to rate crummy cities, according to the Boston Herald. He said he also lived on both Glenville and Pratt streets in Allston while enrolled as a BU student.

Gilmartin listed "faux Irish pubs, garbage and vomiting in the shrubbery" as some of the Allston neighborhood's vices.

Fitchburg residents were not happy with the fact that their town was portrayed in the book.

"You only see the negative when you are looking in -- they don’t see the new parks they are building for the kids. They don't see the new parks we have," Fitchburg resident Be Emery said.