bloke wrote:wnazzaro wrote:How did our cities get this way? I'm sure that while 90% of white people were moving to the suburbs to buy nice homes in the 1950s, blacks could have gotten the same mortgages and moved too. Why is it called "white flight"?
w-h-a-a-a???
Where did "race" and "mortgage discrimination" non sequiturs slip into this thread...??? Oh yeah...
I remember...in the quote above
.
...so, "
mortgage discrimination" in the 1950's is the reason why some of the orchestral tuba players currently making from $50K-$80K aren't interested in auditioning for Philly....o........k......
...then my question
(to try to "out nutty" you, I suppose) is: Why did all of the
wops wreck the town in the
first place?
bloke "who suspects that he could locate quite a few dangerous/run-down neighborhoods in major cities that, in the 1950's, were referred to as 'suburbs'. "
Only a yankee in a yankee town would throw out "discrimination" as the reasons why certain folks are in the inner cities.
To live in a town like this you have two options:
Live in the uber-expensive part of town (Center City)
or
Drive with people on the fringe of insanity back and forth to work every day from 20-40 mile away.
Sure, there are certain places that ain't so bad, but some of those cities can be pretty run down in areas. More than like __________ Symphony Hall is not in those areas and you may be able to avoid them pretty well. But they are still there. And your $$$$$ in city and county and state and federal taxes doesn't do much to help either.
Living near Boston is interesting. I have had to visit a certain hospital there a few times. I have taken back roads to get into town and I always go through the nice residential area to get into town. My wife was curious to see how much a decent house in this area costs. Well $750,000 for a 2000 sqft house is a bit much plus the $15-20K a year in taxes.
If anything, "whitey" has simply driven
up the prices near downtown in whatever-big-city-you-choose.