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It's just sad to me. It's like someone from Detroit bragging about living in a $5,000,000 mansion while poverty skyrockets, and people are sleeping in the streets.
Oakland has so many problems with homelessness and poverty, I'd be ashamed to mention things like $1,000,000 homes. It really shows Oakland is a city of haves and have nots.
Good post, but you are giving Oakland too much credit. Oakland is not a city, it's a leech taking San Jose and San Francisco leftovers!
In Oakland, the largest city in the East Bay, the poverty rate was 22.3% (86,682 people) in 2010, up from 17.2% in 2009.
Nearly 1 in 7 (15.3%) of children under the age of 18 were living in poverty in 2010, with African American and Latino children experiencing 3.5 times more poverty than Non-Hispanic Whites.
In 2010, parts of West Oakland had stark unemployment rates as high as 44-45%, and East Oakland as high as 31-35%.
African Americans had unemployment rates nearly twice that of Whites, and over 60% higher than the overall unemployment rate in the East Bay.
Oakland is BY FAR the most poverty stricken city in the entire East Bay. When compared to its neighbors (not cities in the central valley), Oakland outpaces all of its neighbors in its same economic sphere when it comes to poverty. It's not even a contest.
I was talking with a friend yesterday who lives in SJ. He read this thread as a non member and truly laughed out loud. He stated my thought process was true, the majority of Bay Area residents try to act as if Oakland does not exist. Only on city data will a person from the Bay Area boost Oakland.
I was talking with a friend yesterday who lives in SJ. He read this thread as a non member and truly laughed out loud. He stated my thought process was true, the majority of Bay Area residents try to act as if Oakland does not exist. Only on city data will a person from the Bay Area boost Oakland.
Pretty much.
On City-Data, Oakland is a city full of $1.5 million dollar homes, low poverty, crime only happens within 1-2 blocks that "no one visits anyway", there aren't any homeless, Uptown is becoming the new South Beach, and the economy is over heating causing all Oakland housing to be worth more than its neighbors. Also lots of private investment is invading Oakland, businesses don't know what to do with all the free cash!
In the real world, Oakland is consistently ranked #1 for school drop out rate in the Bay Area, high for poverty (nearly double the county average), and #1 for violent crime and overall crime 12 years in a row. West Oakland and East Oakland have unemployment rates of over 30% and 40% respectively. Oakland is literally the Detroit of the West Coast.
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