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Um no not a good example. Northeast is now basically middle class..... Not poor.
Plus, Capitol Hill makes up a good portion of Southeast and it's a pretty upper middle class neighborhood along with Barney Circle aka the "Hill East" neighborhood. Navy Yard is more mixed economically and there are some good SE neighborhoods east of the river such as Fort DuPont, Hillcrest, Fairfax Village, and Penn Branch. Even Historic Anacostia and Fairlawn are slowly yet steadily improving in regards to safety factor and socioeconomic diversity.
NE DC is not bad, save for carver langston much of it is middle class, not poor. It is also rapidly gentrifying. Especially the Brookland Area. Homes right now in NE DC typically go for over $500k, and in some neighborhoods $700k+. Capital Hill in SE DC is also rich. Navy Yard is also nice, which is also in SE. This is why using quadrants is not very helpful in DC, and it is a common mistake. Anybody living in the city uses the river these days, especially post-gentrification DC. In the next 5 years, most of DC west of the river is going to be affluent.
In terms of DC, it is West of the River and East of the River. This is the term you want to use. West of the river is primarily economically vibrant, East of the River is primarily mostly poor and blighted.
With that being said...DC and Baltimore, the differences are pretty vast at this point. Save for east of the river DC is like driving into a vibrant city, Baltimore it is sometimes like going through a post-apocalyptic war zone, or the land the 1980s forgot. They used to be somewhat similar ten years ago, now not so much.
I agree with your assessment. But all I'm saying is that by any measure I know Northwest DC as a whole is significantly wealthier than the other quadrants of the city. It certainly has the highest concentration of multi-millionaire residents. That's not to say of course that the other quadrants don't have their qualities which we all know.
Detroit and the Grosse Pointes. The east side of Detroit looks like a war zone, literally crossing the street into the Grosse Pointes puts you in one of the wealthiest enclaves in the Midwest.
Similar to Cincinnati where crossing the railroad tracks from Wyoming (good) to Lockland (bad) is shocking.
Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights - you can have doctors, lawyers, consultants, etc. living in mansions on one street a a couple streets away have low income housing.
In terms of property values, there is probably no starker contrast than NYC and Newark. They are only a 20 minute train ride away. But a townhouse in downtown Newark will run you around $200,000 while a townhouse in Manhattan will set you back several million.
Detroit and the Grosse Pointes. The east side of Detroit looks like a war zone, literally crossing the street into the Grosse Pointes puts you in one of the wealthiest enclaves in the Midwest.
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Downtown Phoenix and the Barrios (collection of neighborhoods just south of downtown), literally on opposite sides of the Union Pacific RR Tracks, Downtown heavily gentrified now, one of the most expensive places to live in the area, while south of the tracks in the Barrios, you might as well be in Nogales or Tijuana, literally
Ehhh-Sometimes the part of the Bronx that borders Manhattan is nicer.
IE-Kingsbridge/Riverdale in the Bronx versus Washington Heights/Inwood in Manhattan.
Kingsbridge immediately across from Inwood isn't that much better if it all. East Harlem and the South Bronx bordering each other aren't that different either. So I don't think Manhattan vs Bronx is a great choice.
How about Center City Philadelphia and Camden across the river? For Massachusetts, Mattapan, Boston vs Milton.
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