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I definitely agree. Same with Philly and its largest employers (the universities, hospitals, Comcast, etc).
Just goes to show how metropolitan economies are very eds-and-meds-driven today.
Philadelphia's economy was quite mixed before, I mean way before. Banking, insurance, advertising, retail, law firms, railroads. All of the financial infrastructure needed to support the industrial base where, of course, the city's blue collar rep came from.
If I could only pick from these categories, white-collar, but I think blue-collar culture is usually necessary to give areas character and not have them all feel the same --- so a city with good educational institutions and the jobs they bring, but also integrated ethnic and old-timer neighborhoods, is ideal for me.
(Plus, the burden of car ownership hits working-class people harder, so it's better if they can afford to live in dense urban neighborhoods if they choose to.)
I voted white collar because it's really all I know. Where I live now is pretty much exclusively white collar. There's nothing wrong with blue collar though, just depends on what you're looking for.
I don't consider Miami a blue collar city at all. The image of Miami is all about conspicuous consumption, fancy lifestyles, mansions, expensive cars, etc etc.
Image vs. reality. While the image of Miami is what you say, the vast majority of Miamians drive cabs, tend bar, bus dishes, maintain landscapes, clean pools, etc. They live in modest and middle class homes away from the beaches and juggle their budgets the way cops in Chicago, truck drivers in Buffalo and DMV clerks in San Diego do.
Little bit of both, but leaning white collar between either of them. White collar does not necessarily = pretentious. Tech isn't exactly a really "snobby" field, yet it is definitely a white collar profession.
Overall though, too much of either isn't good. I do agree that blue collar normally equates with local character of a particular city. Too much gentrification and transplants, and you squash that local, blue collar character, which is not good
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