[lbo-talk] Urban wealth/ethnic stratification

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 27 11:49:44 PST 2008


I used to live in east DC (10 blocks east of the Hill).

When I was growing up in San Diego everyone said the eastern areas where poorer because they were further from the coast, and so less desirable real estate, but that doesn't work for DC (or Moscow).

It is a mystery!

--- tully <tully2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've wondered why the cities I'm familiar with here
> on the US
> east coast have the elite neighborhoods in the west
> and north
> and the working class in the south and east. When
> no ideas to
> explain it came to mind, I wrote it off to
> coincidence. But now
> you are making me wonder again... I see it here in
> DC,
> Baltimore, Greensboro, Burlington, NC. Does this
> happen in
> other cities? If so, I wonder why?
>
> --tully
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