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With low demand to live in cities, there was little incentive to invest $$$ into them. So they decayed since the poor neither had the education or resources to make any positive use of them. The result was crime, drugs and poverty bordering 3rd world conditions. This sorry state of American cities are often referred to as "The REAL DC" or "the REAL New York" by those who miss those conditions and hate gentrification.
You have a very misguided view of people if you think that when residents say they miss aspects of the old D.C. or NYC that they are referring to crime, drugs and poverty.
Other than the racial makeup, how are those big cities I mentioned different from American cities?
You can't just say other than racial make up because racist policies is why a number of cities are the way they are. When you have white flight (spurred by racial covenants, redlining and block busting) where the majority of the middle class and affluent white people leave a city along with that cities have a decreased tax base for resources, schools, policing, less political influence in government, less jobs for local residents because business move to the suburbs and add to that the racially charged war on drugs your going to get what inner cities looked like and some still look like that today.
For over 20 years, DC was on and off the murder capital of the country until the early 2000s (even up until 2006 or so it was top 3). That embedded culture of crime and violence doesn't just go away overnight. The kids now are the children and grandchildren of the players during the crack era, so they are already behind the 8 ball. It is worth noting the significant decreases over the last 10 years or so.
You have a very misguided view of people if you think that when residents say they miss aspects of the old D.C. or NYC that they are referring to crime, drugs and poverty.
I'm very pro-gentrification. I was making a subtle jab at the anti-gentrification crowd.
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Other than the racial makeup, how are those big cities I mentioned different from American cities?
They are not in America, simple as that. Talk to me when the US doesn't have the highest number of guns in the world and death by guns in the world. Then we can break down why certain American cities are what they are compared to Asian cities.
Crime in large urban areas is a staple of American culture over the past 50 years, not the same in Japan or Korea.
lets be honest, DC has a lot of ghetto trash considering it is the capital of the richest country on the planet.
i used to think gentrification needed to slow down, but i have definitely changed my mind on that. there's something very dystopian about the level of ghetto trash that can be seen just around the corner from DC's luxury apartment complexes
lets be honest, DC has a lot of ghetto trash considering it is the capital of the richest country on the planet.
i used to think gentrification needed to slow down, but i have definitely changed my mind on that. there's something very dystopian about the level of ghetto trash that can be seen just around the corner from DC's luxury apartment complexes
The amount of poverty in DC is indeed a disgrace and an embarrassment. This is why the Federal Government started the push to make DC a world class city back in the 90's. The majority of the poor will be removed in the coming years.
While the situation in DC is not unique to cities in the United States... it is particularly embarrassing since DC is the Capital of the United States.. and so.. DC should set an example for the rest of the country. And the example it was setting in the 80's and 90's was a disgrace.
The ghetto trash will be removed because there is no longer any benefit to housing them in urban cores. The Government doesn't want them here and the new upper class residents moving in don't want them here. Ultimately, only those with $$$ have a voice in "Merica" so its a safe bet we will continue to see hyper-gentrification in DC until the entire city is middle class or higher.
Detroit Michigan and Camden New Jersey make DC look like Disney World. Philadelpia was nicknamed "Killadelphia," New Orleans, Atlanta, almost all the Florida cities, Richmond, Bronx, Bridgeport Connecticut, Boston, all just as bad if not worse then DC.
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