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People say nobody can afford to live in a city, and yet "inner city" is synonymous with poverty. There are plenty of places to live in most cities that are with
by imgabe 11y ago
People say nobody can afford to live in a city, and yet "inner city" is synonymous with poverty. There are plenty of places to live in most cities that are within the reach of middle class folks, but they might entail living next to some people with a different skin color, and that frightens people.
Other alleged problems like crime, bad schools, etc would clear up easily if some people who cared about making a community moved in and took some responsibility, but nobody seems to want to do that.
- refurb 11y agoThere are plenty of places to live in most cities that are within the reach of middle class folks, but they might entail living next to some people with a different skin color, and that frightens people. Or living in a neighborhood with gun violence and rampant drug abuse. I don't blame them for not wanting to live there.
- imgabe 11y agoYes, that is an impression that is held by people who don't live in such places. In reality, it's not the wild west with daily gunfights in the streets and junkies passed out on the sidewalk. Like the vast majority of human beings, even poor people mostly just want to go about their business and not be hassled.
- pyre 11y agoChanging your location can also change your (car) insurance rates. Mine doubled just to to changing my address to where I currently live (from a more gentrified area).
- AJ007 11y agoIn second and third tier cities, yes. Take a look at Chicago, Cabrini Green was demo'd a luxury housing put in its placed. You can look at the gentrification of New York City, different process but similar outcome. California, despite the wild things going on in downtown SF, absolutely things have flipped. The inner city of first tier cities = huge $$$