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Old 04-22-2010, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Philly
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If those areas are so bad for the middle class then why do they have the most middle class? The middle class can always go to Mississippi where they will have a high standard of living but they won't have any jobs.
they don't. middle class people have very poor QOL in NY, where commutes for peopel without money are horribly long. migration is negative for NY so peopel aren't choosing to live there, it's made up largely by immigrants. MS is a red herring and irrelevant.
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Old 04-22-2010, 12:31 PM
 
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Philly's boom was pretty small, actually, and yes, unions limit construction to expensive housing. yes, most of the jobs are in the suburbs....excepting healthcare, which are mostly non-profits that don't pay city business taxes. I wouldn't say "there's nothing to do here other than bars." a lot of people are lazy and just go to NY because they don't bother to learn about their own city. yeah, it's not NY, we only have a couple comedy clubs rather than several. the Art museum is smaller than the met but it's still a top museum. the franklin institute was able to draw millions to King Tut.


The areas without unions don't even have a middle class.
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