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Not entirely true. I know a fair amount of people who make good income on their own, but have moved from either another county in this region or out of state to Prince George's due to the COL being slightly better than its surrounding neighbors.
Also median home values in PG County have the highest percentage increase in the DC area the past couple of years.
And anybody who knows the area well, knows that Charles county is taking more gentrified DC residents now than PG.
We must know different people. The affluent black people I know aren't moving into bad school districts, unless they're in city neighborhoods.
speaking about rough idk how rough or safe many of these areas being mentioned in many of these communities across the country are. Most of the areas being mentioned are being judged by their income status!
That's typically a good proxy for how safe or unsafe the place is.
It matters because people drag it into everything.
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Read up on it. It’s a pretty integral part of our history and has a pretty big impact on people’s lives
The key word is history. Which is what some of this needs to be. I'm not saying there are no issues, but it's very overblown and some people need to get over themselves.
In the Detroit area, West Bloomfield, parts of Farmington Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, parts of the Grosse Pointe area, Bingham Farms, Orchard Lake Village, Lathrup Village and parts of the Rochester/Rochester Hills area. Most of these places are in Oakland County.
It matters because people drag it into everything.
And let me guess: people "drag it into everything" by merely talking about it. You don't actually see neighborhoods of any socioeconomic level comprised of people of predominantly one race anywhere in America; that's just a figment of people's imaginations. Every realtor and lender in America is colorblind and there is no such thing as steering. It would simply be unfathomable to think that people of a certain race or ethnicity could be targeted for shoddy home loans...nah, that couldn't be. If there's one area where race is only a factor because people won't stop talking about it, it's housing.
Does that about sum it up?
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The key word is history. Which is what some of this needs to be. I'm not saying there are no issues, but it's very overblown and some people need to get over themselves.
What is it about this subject that upsets you so? This isn't even a racial hot-button issue. We're talking about the descendants of African slaves in America and African and Caribbean immigrants who have overcome the odds and achieved the American dream and have the means to live practically wherever they want, and simply by discussing this we need to "get over ourselves"? Give me a break. I absolutely LOVE to see Black folks doing well for themselves given all the hell we've been through (and are still going through in some areas) and learning about aspects of their lives, like the places they choose to call home, interests me and many others. If that gets under your skin or whatever, then that's your problem, not mine.
I don't know of any "rich" enclaves, but Teaneck and Englewood both have large working class-middle class African American communities. South Orange and Montclair have large black populations and tend to be more upper class.
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