Are the any cities that actually embrace transplants?

[dacoolguy]

In the words of the late great 2pac "If you're not from the town then don't pass through cause some OG fools might blast you..."

[02blackgt]

people are people everywhere. there's no magical city where people are sitting at a greeting desk to meet new people.

[2e1m5a]

Certain parts of cities are more accepting of outsiders than others. For example in Philadelphia places like Center City, University City, Fairmount, East Passyunk, Queen Village, Northwest Philly seem to be very welcoming and transplant heavy while places like Kensington, Bridesburg, Packer Park, Strawberry Mansion, etc. may not be.

[spicymeatball]

Originally Posted by 02blackgt

people are people everywhere. there's no magical city where people are sitting at a greeting desk to meet new people.

That's just a politically correct platitude. Culture is a real thing.

[tcave360]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

Umm, not so much. DC by nature is a very transient city with around 35% of it's residents natives, and of that number overwhelmingly it's lower income residents in the NE and SE wards. I lived in the NW neighborhoods of Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan and Cleveland Park for many years, and there was zero resentment as most everyone was a transplant that I knew.

You'll find natives in some of the NW neighborhoods too such as a majority of the Georgia Ave neighborhoods, Columbia Heights, Shaw, LeDroit Park, Mount Pleasant, Adams Morgan, etc. living side by side with transplants and foreign immigrants from East and West Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean. Sometimes natives and transplants do bump heads in Petworth and Park View and there were a few occasions of tensions between native African Americans and "FOB" Ethiopian immigrants in the Shaw and U Street neighborhoods on the basis of the Little Ethiopia/9th Street NW area but other than those occasions, it seems that natives and transplants and immigrants get along well in much of NW DC. Relations tend to be different in parts of NE and SE however.

[tcave360]

Originally Posted by Spade

There is pretty much little resentment west of the Anacostia River.

Yep.

[violent by design]

NYC, especially Queens.

[Icemodeled]

I think columbus is also accepting, much more so then other cities.

[Fl1150]

Tampa and Orlando are pretty transplant friendly.