Neighboorhood with Cultural, Racial, Age diversity - thoughts? (Chicago, Lincoln: living, shop)

[baileyvpotter]

I'm confused marothisu. According to the list above, is that saying that Lincoln and Edison Park are more diverse than
Albany Park? Just asking...in which way?

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by baileyvpotter

I'm confused marothisu. According to the list above, is that saying that Lincoln and Edison Park are more diverse than
Albany Park? Just asking...in which way?

No, you read it backwards. Read it again. 1 = highest percentage in one group, 77 = lower percentage in one group. The higher the number, probably the better with diversity.

[deefeste]

All good input, thanks! For reference, my daughter lives on Lawrence near the Aragon. Some people seem to think it's a sketchy area but it's fine to me.

[deefeste]

Originally Posted by nearnorth

Interesting. I tend to mostly see Swedish lesbians who look like Justin Bieber.

(I keed. Sort of.)

I just choked on my cabernet, laughing.

[lenniel]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Because it's good to be exposed to different ideas, people, and viewpoints than your own? I mean not everybody subscribes to that, but I personally do and it makes me understand and enjoy life more.

Well, it's a city of several MILLION people so you're going to get diversity no matter where you live, whether you want it or not. It's not like you're moving to some little lake town in northern WI.

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by nearnorth

Yes, we know all about Lakeview East, your personal Mecca, from the other 13,000 threads in which you've talked about it. I view it differently than you do, and even if I didn't it wouldn't alter what I said about Lakeview as a whole.

If you think that LV is less diverse than Lincoln Park or the Gold Coast you are just quite simply wrong, and marothisu is still right.

Go spend 30 minutes during rush hour at the corner of Belmont & Sheffield and watch who is getting off the train.

Or ask yourself how the neighborhood which embraced the gay community long before that was socially popular could possibly not be considered diverse.

People have a funny way of imposing their own personal experiences on huge areas of the City, IMO. Lake View proper has well over 90,000 residents. While there are no doubt a good chunk of Chads and Trixies now, just by sheer volume there are loads and loads of other groups just under the surface. A long-standing Japanese community, for instance.

Ask yourself: how many of those 90,000+ have you met personally?

[TBideon]

A lot of people equate diversity with ghetto types, mentally ill, section 8'rs and other criminal elements. It's like if you don't have a lot of those types, then the community can't possibly be considered diverse.

[nearnorth]

Originally Posted by TBideon

A lot of people equate diversity with ghetto types, mentally ill, section 8'rs and other criminal elements. It's like if you don't have a lot of those types, then the community can't possibly be considered diverse.

It sounds like you might be referring to socioeconomic diversity, albeit in an extremely ignorant and offensive way.

By the way, there is mental illness and criminal activity in affluent neighborhoods, too. They can just afford to hide it better.

[TBideon]

I apologize for leaving my politically correct hat at home. Better to describe society's dredges with more care and sanitized descriptions. I will do better next time.

[treemoni]

Chicago has very few truly diverse areas due to white flight. Statistically speaking, white people are comfortable with less than 10% non-white residents in terms of diversity. Anything more than that increases the likelihood of flight. You will NOT get an accurate picture of diversity on city-data, because "diversity" here means "non-white people who behave in ways typically associated with white people".