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For this couple, Boston was the city of cold shoulders

Raymond Johnson, with son Cole, is a former Malden resident who moved his family to North Carolina last year. (Globe Staff Photo / Jonathan Wiggs) Globe Staff Photo / Jonathan Wiggs

By Don Aucoin

Globe Staff / December 8, 2005

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Within a year of moving to the Boston area toward the end of 2000, Raymond Johnson began lobbying his wife, Idella, to leave a region whose coldness -- in every sense of that word -- had baffled, frustrated, and ultimately alienated him. (Full article: 2717 words)