People who can hardly-afford-their-(new)-home will also move to expensive areas to avoid being around the "typical" poor people: alcoholics, drug-addicts, dropo

People who can hardly-afford-their-(new)-home will also move to expensive areas to avoid being around the "typical" poor people: alcoholics, drug-addicts, dropouts, street gangs, etc. My mother raised me as a single mom. Her two options were "live reasonably in a poor, drug-riddled, crime-filled area" or "live poorly in a more affluent area with far less drug/crime issues". As a kid I understood that we were too poor to be living where we were living but was still too young to understand why we had moved "if we couldn't afford it". It wasn't until I was old enough to know I'd never raise my kids in my hometown either, even if it meant struggling to live somewhere I couldn't quite afford. We weren't affluent by any means, but we we had just enough money to not be living down the street from a meth addict and being next-door-neighbors with the neighborhood slinger.