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Boston is southern despite its location. Dallas has races problems but not on the level of Boston.
Yeah, I heard this about Dallas. Every once in awhile, you'll get an "old school" white person that might talk to a black person in a "you should know your place" kinda way, but they usually don't do that to blacks who are not "local".
Not really trying to go to Texas though. I'd rather take my chances in midwest or Maine, if and when I do leave NYC again. I'd really prefer nothern california this time. I really like Cali's live and let live attitude.
I had no race related problems in Philly and the folks there were genuinely nice but I could help but feel like an exhibit at a museum with the way they kept watching. Not out of hate but out of curiosity.
Really?? When I take the bus out to Philly to visit my friends, it usually goes through Chinatown.
Was it blacks staring at you strange or whites?
What neighborhood were you in?
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I took a picture of the only Hispanic person I saw in Philly. It's still a 90% white and black metro, there's nothing wrong with that but it's not very worldly IMO.
Hmmm, interesting. I see all types when I'm there.
Try Boston. Ethnic whites do tend to be a little backwards though, but I don't know how they treat other races besides blacks, so I can't speak on it. Have you gone to the Boston forum?
Yeah, I heard this about Dallas. Every once in awhile, you'll get an "old school" white person that might talk to a black person in a "you should know your place" kinda way, but they usually don't do that to blacks who are not "local".
Not really trying to go to Texas though. I'd rather take my chances in midwest or Maine, if and when I do leave NYC again. I'd really prefer nothern california this time. I really like Cali's live and let live attitude.
I have a friend who is black and is planning to move to Dallas in December. We both visited in April and liked it a lot. She spoke to a lot more people than I did since she has no qualms about striking up conversations with people. There is a bit of a mix in Dallas now, it's become more metropolitan and I met a LOT of people who moved there from California to get away from the high COL there.
As for Boston vs. Philly, I've been to Boston but never been to Philly so I couldn't make in informed decision on that one way or another. I would agree Boston is definitely predominately white. I also found it amusing that I was staying in a hotel in what was considered by the locals to be a crappy area (Waltham I think) and people were asking me wasn't I scared to stay there. To me the area looked like mainly working class hispanics and blacks. Not bad by NYC standards, but I guess according to them, it was a slum.
One of these days I'll get to Philly, I've been meaning to go there.
I'm also surprised you don't have DC on your list.
There are about 10 neighborhoods I would never come near in Philadelphia. It's improved a lot, especially near Center City, over the years, but you can't change something that pervasively bad over less than a generation or two. There is a crime wave over the past 3-5 years in Philly too- the mayor there was elected to fight it.
Boston I wouldn't say there are any scary neighborhoods. Call the behavior racist or provinicial, but there are a lot bigger problems than that in Philadelphia.
The people are smart, the airport is close, the distances are eminently walkable, the streets are clean- I love Boston.
I haven't seen much of Philly but I've always liked Boston because it seems like a really neat, clean, historic city to live in (even though Philly is itself). But I feel like Philly is more on the "suburban" side and Boston is comparable with NYC in many ways.
Inside Philadelphia is quite dense with most hoods within 2-5 miles of Center City being row houses. They're just not mostly not nice neighborhoods like Boston's.
A lot of people are really overdoing the Boston racist comments smh.
All three cities have huge similarities(both being more related to NYC then each other)
But this has always been a hard topic for me......hmmmmm I guess I go with Philly specifically based on its region.
If you're not black or a person of color, how would you know?
How many diverse or integrated neighborhoods are there in Boston? I heard that there aren't ANY at all. At least, Dallas DOES have some and so does Philly.
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