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If I'm being brutally honest the only time in the US that one really sees "family clusters" like you describe is in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Or, in the c
by 6stringmerc 10y ago
If I'm being brutally honest the only time in the US that one really sees "family clusters" like you describe is in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Or, in the case of St. Louis, a place that used to be nice but the City rotted around the homestead. The dynamic I've seen, especially in Urban US environments (Chicago, New York, Seattle, on and on miscellaneous Midwestern stops) versus International are drastically different - don't get me wrong, ROOTS are extremely a point of Pride.
The idea, and I think Rap stars put it best, is to rise up and then buy your Mom a House somewhere nice. Go make it, then bring the rest of the family up. That's why them and NFL / MLB / US sports starts feel like they owe a lot of hungry mouths. It's complicated for sure!
- dragonwriter 10y ago> If I'm being brutally honest the only time in the US that one really sees "family clusters" like you describe is in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. You occasionally see it in immigrant-heavy communities even when they aren't impoverished, because family-locality is a cultural value in many of them.
- 6stringmerc 10y agoBut, and I don't mean this blase style, I haven't seen immigrant heavy block-buying in $1-5M homestead Country Clubs, because people don't buy blocks of land like that in Westlake, Texas. Like you said - occasionally. It's not the status quo. Economics matter.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> But, and I don't mean this blase style, I haven't seen immigrant heavy block-buying in $1-5M homestead Country Clubs OTOH, I have seen it, close up, in purchases in ~$200K suburban northern California communities, and in rentals in places in NorCal with similar values, which are much more middle income than impoverished.