Miramar, FL “I lived a rough and tumble life. I was always a hustler, was always manipulative, just to get what I wanted, and I did whatever I had to to get it,” says Jim. It was on the rough streets of a Boston neighborhood where Jim Wahlberg learned the art of the hustle. Jim was the middle of nine kids of hardworking parents trying to give their children a better life. “We had nothing; our neighbors had nothing. And we were happy,” says Jim. Then they moved into a middle-class neighborhood when Jim was eight, and he realized just how poor his family was.