What's not talked about so much is the ghettoization of the suburbs. If you look closely, many of the houses are rooming houses. It's harder to tell because 4

What's not talked about so much is the ghettoization of the suburbs. If you look closely, many of the houses are rooming houses. It's harder to tell because 4 or 5 cars parked in the driveway is not abnormal in the burbs. The suburbs built in the 1930s are being gentrified, and are now considered 'downtown'. The suburbs built in the 1940s-1960s are in now the edge of the city, inhabited by an older generation or retires that vote very conservatively as they try to stop change in their neighborhoods. The suburbs built in the 1970s and 1980s are starting to show their age. They are at the ends of public transit lines where rents in rooming houses are the cheapest. This is the area new immigrants are moving, as it saves money, but the commute is long. The suburbs of the 1990s till now are eating up small towns. This causes some tension between the new burbs and the more redneck locals that have never liked the city.