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Not really, there’s countless cities with tons of well off upper middle class people in the middle of the country. Metro-Denver, Metro-Austin/Dallas/Huston, Me
by pembrook 6y ago
Not really, there’s countless cities with tons of well off upper middle class people in the middle of the country.
Metro-Denver, Metro-Austin/Dallas/Huston, Metro-Atlanta, Metro-Nashville, Metro-Chicago, Metro-Detroit, Metro-Minneapolis, etc. etc. etc.
I’d say it’s more city/suburban vs rural. This doesn’t account for the poor & homeless in all of America’s inner cities, but does a better job explaining.
Maybe “Fortune 500 headquarters adjacent” is the better indicator. The towns with big global companies almost always have affluent suburbs surrounding them. Even Cincinnati has tons of affluent people due to P&G.
- perardi 6y agoI think you have to go even finer grained than that. Chicago, for example. My old stomping grounds. The inequality within that city is stark. Glaring. The South and West sides are a world apart from the North side.
- pembrook 6y agoI guess the easiest way to slice it would be knowledge labor vs. unskilled labor. Regardless of where you live.
- vidanay 6y agoOne side of the street is Little Italy, the other side is not someplace to hang out after dark.
- perardi 6y agoThat Andersonville to Uptown transition can be a shock.