Moving somewhere for it's LACK of diversity? (transplants, foreclosures)

[happymom4]

diversity ain't all it's cracked up to be is it? Good luck with your move...just research, research and research. I know small-ish towns in Missouri aren't that diverse.

[deportallofthem]

Originally Posted by Joyce Bains

I'm glad you feel this way. Means you'll never live in my neighborhood, thank God.

you enjoy the hate crimes and blatant racism that I moved away from?

[deportallofthem]

Originally Posted by happymom4

diversity ain't all it's cracked up to be is it? Good luck with your move...just research, research and research. I know small-ish towns in Missouri aren't that diverse.

I could care less whether they are White, Black, Asian ..whatever... I just need places where people value education, safety, and respect for the American dream. My take: It's rather tough to find these values in cities these days.

[jonjj]

Wow, the new immigrants in my neighborhood want the "American dream" so bad, they can taste it! Many of them are from Mexico and Central America. They are non-violent and most of them are really great parents trying their best to be successful. They also have a lot on their hands. Just as immigrants in the past, they have to think about those that were left behind and try to somehow make their lifes better also. The neighborhood is very diverse and I love it.

[GoBeavs]

You wanna go somewhere with a complete lack of diversity? Try Missoula, Montana! I could not believe how white that town was. I was the only Mexican there, no kidding.

[quickdraw]

People do this all the time. People fled LA's Mexican takeover to OR,WA,UT,ID.
White people flee to to the suburbs to get away from blacks all the time. Say
what you want, they usually end up in a much safer place.

[HighPlainsDrifter73]

Back when I was a kid, our family lived in the city of Chicago. This was back in the late '60s, early '70s. Our neighborhood was all white. Slowly, this began to change, then it became a full blown stampede to get out. Back then, this was know as 'white flight'. Everyone on our block was moving out to the suburbs or beyond. Many long-time residents wanted to stay and our local state representative was concerned about the neighborhood changing. His advice was 'get out now'. You won't stop this once it starts. It happened before with neighborhoods to the east of where we lived.

Sadly, this neighborhood where I spent my young childhood is now a ghetto and I wouldn't go in there on a bright sunny day - that's really a shame. I guess that's progress in the name of diversity. I guess this is not the kind of thing you are supposed to talk about in polite society. Everyone know this goes on, but just doesn't acknowledge it. Well, at my age I tend to speak my mind and don't care to be politically correct, since that means denying the reality of the situation.

Since that time I've lived in the Chicago suburbs or rural areas around Chicago where there is little to no diversity and I like it that way. From my perspective, diversity doesn't work. After my experience with that situation at 15 years old, I will stay with my own kind. I'm not looking for diversity and I consider it to be a 4 letter word.

At work we get diversity training and such things rammed down our throats. I'm so sick of this crap. When did all this nonsense start anyway.

[happymom4]

Originally Posted by HighPlainsDrifter73

Back when I was a kid, our family lived in the city of Chicago. This was back in the late '60s, early '70s. Our neighborhood was all white. Slowly, this began to change, then it became a full blown stampede to get out. Back then, this was know as 'white flight'. Everyone on our block was moving out to the suburbs or beyond. Many long-time residents wanted to stay and our local state representative was concerned about the neighborhood changing. His advice was 'get out now'. You won't stop this once it starts. It happened before with neighborhoods to the east of where we lived.

Sadly, this neighborhood where I spent my young childhood is now a ghetto and I wouldn't go in there on a bright sunny day - that's really a shame. I guess that's progress in the name of diversity. I guess this is not the kind of thing you are supposed to talk about in polite society. Everyone know this goes on, but just doesn't acknowledge it. Well, at my age I tend to speak my mind and don't care to be politically correct, since that means denying the reality of the situation.

Since that time I've lived in the Chicago suburbs or rural areas around Chicago where there is little to no diversity and I like it that way. From my perspective, diversity doesn't work. After my experience with that situation at 15 years old, I will stay with my own kind. I'm not looking for diversity and I consider it to be a 4 letter word.

At work we get diversity training and such things rammed down our throats. I'm so sick of this crap. When did all this nonsense start anyway.

I completely agree with you 100%. Here we have the Atlanta sprawl, which brings with it diversity. The "diversity moves further out of Atl, and we move further east, then diversity spreads further east, so do we...you have to be quick and sell your home before it's too late, you lose home value and it sits on the market forever.

[lukeache]

Diversity I have experienced here in Minnesota is cars with blasting rap music anytime of the night (sometimes at 3 am!). People out yelling and talking loud all night (I was up all night one Friday because some people next door would not shut up and they talk so loud!). I was playing tennis at a city park one night, all of the sudden, a car with blasting rap music drives through the grass and the driver parks the car on the basketball court LOL, this at 10 pm Recently, started seeing more cars with spinning shiny wheels..and vanity plates like "2L82H8". Celebrate diversity!

[crystalblue]

it looks like alot of the cheap cities arent very diverse.