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In terms of food, I'd argue the more diverse the neighborhood the less likely to have truly diverse food.
The best authentic Chinese food will be in areas mostly populated by Chinese people. It's not going to be the neighborhoods where there is a 8% Chinese population. The Chinese restaurants in the diverse areas are going to be the non-authentic Americanized versions. This will hold true with any ethnic food. To get the authentic stuff, you need to go to those areas heavily populated by that ethnicity - less diverse.
Yep, and what people find in these diverse areas is a bunch of people doing what they doing- going to work, getting takeout, going home, doing facebook, etc. Its America. Not sure what kind of unique cultures they think they are getting by moving into a melting pot.
This is the order in which I decide where to live:
1. Cost - Can I afford to live here? If not, nothing else matters.
2. Crime rate
3. Proximity to job
4. Proximity to everything else, including different types of restaurants.
Racial demographics is not a factor.
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Rarely do those four things ever come as a combo, especially where I live.
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Then move.
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Let me guess, you didn't like what I had to say and felt the need to be petulant about it.
Hey, you're the one complaining. If you don't like where you live, move.
Hey, you're the one complaining. If you don't like where you live, move.
And we have plenty of people complaining about diversity. The only reason I'm where I'm at is because it's expensive to move elsewhere. Either move into a cheap ghetto or a very expensive area. I don't like where I live, but moving wouldn't solve my problem either.
If people on this thread can complain about diversity, then I can make criticisms about where I live. If there is an issue with that, tough.
And we have plenty of people complaining about diversity. The only reason I'm where I'm at is because it's expensive to move elsewhere. Either move into a cheap ghetto or a very expensive area. I don't like where I live, but moving wouldn't solve my problem either.
If people on this thread can complain about diversity, then I can make criticisms about where I live. If there is an issue with that, tough.
Just who is saying you can't complain? Here we go, another perpetually injured, perpetually offended.
Seems like your problem is the expense. So, get a better paying job or wait and save until enough funds are at your disposal to move.
I support your right to complain, support my right to crticize you for it.
I offered advice, you immediately became offended.
Rarely do those four things ever come as a combo, especially where I live.
Thats not meant to be taken as a combination. That's the hierarchy in which I would make the decision. First, i only consider areas I can afford. Then out of that list, I look at areas with low crime rates. Out of that subset, I'll choose from areas with a reasonable commute. So on and so forth.
Thats not meant to be taken as a combination. That's the hierarchy in which I would make the decision. First, i only consider areas I can afford. Then out of that list, I look at areas with low crime rates. Out of that subset, I'll choose from areas with a reasonable commute. So on and so forth.
Exactly.
An area doesn't have to be expensive to have good factors going for it.
I believe you described the people who left as (White Flight Racists). I challenged that statement. Why is it racist to leave?
It's racist because it's literally part of the definition.
When a black or hispanic family moves into a neighborhood and within a year or two the majority of people leave it's clear there are racial motivations.
Generally, “blockbusting” denotes the real estate and building development business practices yielding double profits from U.S. anti-black racism
The real estate business practice of "blockbusting" was a for-profit catalyst for white flight and a means to control non-white migration. By subterfuge, real estate agents would facilitate black people buying a house in a white neighborhood, either by buying the house themselves, or via a white proxy buyer, and then re-selling it to the black family. The remaining white inhabitants (alarmed by real estate agents and the local newsmedia),[25] fearing devalued residential property, would quickly sell, usually at a loss. Losses happened when they sold en masse, and would sell the properties to the incoming black families, profiting from price arbitrage and the sales commissions from both the blacks and the whites. By such tactics, the racial composition of a neighborhood population often changed completely in a few years
So, in our local city thread, we just had another person say they are looking for a diverse neighborhood. I've read, I'm not sure how many of them over the years, and I find it strange.
Keep in mind, I'm talking about when people are asking for a "diverse neighborhood" and not asking about a specific race, ethnicity or nationality. {snip}
Those people are just racialists who are trying to be PC.
People are people, just because a person has a certain pigment to their skin, goes to a different church, or speaks in a foreign accent, does mean they are going to be a good person.
Even in a neighborhood where everyone is the same race, the people themselves are personally diverse. Some neighbors have crappy yards, others have beautifully landscaped yards they work to maintain every day. Some neighbors grill out a lot, and love to experiment with cooking, others eat the same bland food every week. some people are loud, shut-ins, or rude and obnoxious, others are open, friendly and polite. some neighbors are old, others young college kids throwing loud parties, and still others have children.
Simply designing a neighborhood, making every person in every house on your block, a different color, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual persuasion, etc... will not mean you have created a good neighborhood. People are people, giving them a different skin color or ethnic or gender identy does not change anything.
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