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To bring this back to NYC, another option outside of the city that still offer an urban experience that hasn’t been mentioned is Mount Vernon NY’s Fleetwood section(about 30 minutes to Grand Central Station on the Harlem Line and a separate walkable, middle class district): https://goo.gl/maps/V375SRrqGqKVNjux9
I believe the public elementary schools are solid/good, with good select public school options(STEAM Academy & Denzel Washington School of the Arts HS) and private school(Montfort Academy) in the city. Some go with a private HS like Archbishop Stepinac in White Plains or Iona Prep in New Rochelle nearby.
No it's not the best. But the ratio of 17 to 2 is indicative of something IMO, it's just a huge gap and honestly, it would make sense. Black people in Boston are probably more likely to be middle or upper class simply because of the expense that comes with living here-that doesn't seem too far fetched. And if the median is 58k that includes all the poor and working-class folks- What are the middle-class black families making? The ones whose children pepper private and suburban schools all over the Boston Area, especially along the southern part.
The same goes for Philadelphia of course but 41k is just such an abnormally low starting point compared to most major metros-that it's a bit of a red flag. I'm not surprised the COL on a metro level was slightly in Boston favor, the entire place just has a more polished vibe and I say this as someone who admittedly has seen much of the nicer parts of the Philly Area, but the amount that's worse than anything in Eastern MA is honestly?? shocking and uncomfortable when you're first getting to see the place. You come to see past that and understand that that is part of "affordability". Its not all that makes an area affordable but it's definitely a part of it and your tolerance for that is based off where you were raised.
Coatesville-based of it's C-D profile i just looked at and what you showed me- seems socioeconomically similar to Lynn when adjusted for COL. Those street view images were pleasant and Malden-esque (PA style) but the child poverty and poverty rate is alarming to say the very least. I once saw a Rip Hamilton mini-doc and it went to his neighborhood in Coatesville and it wasn't looking too hot.
it mite be dependant upon specific black ethnicity within boston:
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Of all nonwhite groups for which estimates could be made, Caribbean black households have the highest median wealth with $12,000, which is only 5 percent of the wealth attributed to white households in the Boston MSA.
I say that the borough president is a little bit different, because technically both the Bronx and Brooklyn are also counties(Bronx County and Kings County) and have the same boundaries. So, they are more in line with county executives. https://www.brooklyn-usa.org/eric-adams-bio/
then the county (commissioner ?) of montgomery, pa is black... possibly others.
Who is that? I don’t know if there are many county executives that are black besides this guy in Chemung County NY(Elmira): https://www.chemungcountyny.gov/depa...tive/index.php He was the county sheriff previously.
then the county (commissioner ?) of montgomery, pa is black... possibly others.
Montgomery County, Pa., is run by a three-member county commission, one member of which must be of the minority party (Republican for the last 12 years or so).
The vice chair of the county commissioners is Black.
(The chair's hubby and I were classmates in college.)
One of the seven members of the Lower Merion Township Commission is also Black. (They're elected by district; his district includes South Ardmore. Lower Merion Township is Montgomery County's most populous municipality.)
Who is that? I don’t know if there are many county executives that are black besides this guy in Chemung County NY(Elmira): https://www.chemungcountyny.gov/depa...tive/index.php He was the county sheriff previously.
At the school district level, here are school districts in the region where at least 20% of the residents are black and the black median household income is 6 figures.
School districts in NJ such as West Orange, South Orange-Maplewood, Teaneck, Piscataway and Lumberton Township come very close in either category or both categories(Piscataway). Lumberton misses by percentage and the other by income.
So, this may give some idea in terms of some suburbs to look into.
^Really? Think about what you’re saying...These are places that are likely going to fit for those looking and not just the OP. Keep in mind that in the past, the OP actually had stated that there were potential opportunities in NYC and Farmingdale, which happens to be on Long Island like those SD’s are.
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