And violence! Car breaking, murders, etc.
Those were mostly millenials. I used to be amazed at how anybody could actually want to live in a cramped little apartment in what was basically a concrete box in the a high rise building. They crowed about being able to walk to work and bars and restaurants being nearby.
I think that whole vibe is dead and a large chunk of even millenials would rather work remotely than go trudge off to a cube farm every day. Big cities are in big trouble.
I’m sure the full impact simply hasn’t been felt yet in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Washington, San Francisco, and New York.
“Mainly due to crappy schools.”
The ill-mannered students within them are very upset that despite their vigorous efforts they mattered little in your decision making.
The school buildings were often good enough to be used to make lots of Jewish doctors, business people and lawyers.
That was actually happening them.
Then something or other happened in 2020, and it's not happening anymore.
I have heard this same story in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s through to last year. I do not believe it.
Next year will be “Exodus of talented young people from promising urban centers. Lofts and condos going at a discount.”
Apparently:
Whites are disgusting racists when they move away from cities because moving away from cities is a disgusting racist thing to do.
And yet also:
Whites are disgusting racists when they move to cities because moving to cities is a disgusting racist thing to do.
“according to USPS data, Manhattan’s net migration was still negative for the entirety of 2021-22.”
https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html
WHO the HELL are they KIDDING???? There is NO BIG DEMOCRAT RUN CITY that is SAFE for WHITEY!!!
“White people have flocked back to city centers...”
They are called prey.😎
All the reasons blacks move, either out of the city (cost of living) or to back to the city (more ethnic) is reasonable and understandable.
In other words, whites always suck.
And now they wait for the nonwhites to destroy and ruin them all over again.
You are right, many white people have left cities. These guys are using old information. Young and retired people moved to the cities in the time between 1995 and 2015. The cities had money and safe areas downtown. Young people liked the dating game. But crime has changed all that. The past 5 years as caused a mass exodus. When the next census comes around they will have figured it out.
the timeframe is important
“between 2010 and 2020”
About 20 years ago the RNC leader wouldn’t have dared set foot in her ‘hood.
I remember a time when few whites would dare walk north of H St NE if they didn’t have on a blue uniform.
I remember when neighborhood folks tried to scare me about a murdered woman on M St. NW around 9th St. I used to do architectural photography.
iirc the globalist goal is to migrate people from the suburbs to the cities. the same goes for corporate workplaces. ultimately people will live in high density city centers, in high rise condos and apartments. they will not own autos. they will take public transportation or bicycle everywhere they need to go (including vacations). in the liberal urban planning view, suburbs will become the new ghettos because no one will want to (or be able to afford to) live in suburbs— perhaps another way of saying that laws and rules will be passed such that the suburbs become prohibitely unsafe and/or expensive in which to live. the trend fits well with the so-called green new deal which adopts goals that parallel these goals.
White people have flocked back to city centers - and transformed them
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This is a ridiculous title. It read something to the effect:
White Liberal Hipsters Are Gentrifying Black Neighborhoods In The Cities Because They Can Undercut The Black Families When Their Property Taxes Go Thru Tue Roof……Then Transforming These Neighborhoods Into The Whitest Neighborhoods Where No BIPOCS are allowed unless they’re like Don Lemon
The White population increased between 2010 and 2020 in hundreds of neighborhoods at the center of many large cities,
A decline in crime starting in the early 1990s also probably played a part, he said.
They are using old and outdated information. Those trends have reversed lately.
I simply can’t imagine ever wanting to live an urban environment. It has to be utterly soul-crushing.
You mean the people who built them to begin with?
I came to DC in 1979 and have always lived on Capitol Hill. The Hill used to be a lot ... well, let’s say “more exciting” ... than it is today. Every neighborhood has its own story. The Hill never crashed and burned entirely because it is very centrally located, convenient to downtown and has several major job centers right here. It was, however, embattled and therefore affordable. I bought when it was inexpensive. Gentrification has been good to us.
What has happened on the Hill is happening across the city. Why? Brutal commutes, that’s why. Older, central neighborhoods start to look a lot better when you are spending a majority of your nonwork, waking hours sitting in gridlock, and when your weekends are spent running the errands that you couldn’t do during the week because of your commute.
The price of living in DC for middle and upper middle class families, in most neighborhoods, has long included private school tuition. We now have a slowly increasing scattering of public schools that have turned the corner, due to gentrification. People are now moving to the Hill and paying $1,000,000, give or take, for small rowhouses in order to be inbounds for two of our elementary schools. A few neighborhoods in Northwest have the same thing going on.
DCPS overall is still a disaster area, but it is not the complete wasteland that it used to be. The last time I saw the stats, about 15 percent of DC K-12 students were in private schools. Regular public schools and charters split the remainder almost evenly. We already have gentrification on steroids. If we ever vouchered the schools ... well, I don’t know what comes after “on steroids.” Warp speed? We have young families with kids going to Urbana for the schools and commuting in on I-270. Or going to Woodbridge or Stafford County and commuting up I-95. Or going to Haymarket and coming in on I-66. Hahahahahahahaha. DC’s affordable housing today is in far Northeast or close-in PG County, much of it along the Anacostia River corridor, which is an incredible resource that I had not fully discovered until I started riding my bike up the Anacostia River Trail. If there are any area freepers who are up for a bike ride, let me know and I’ll show it to you. You will be amazed. There are affordable hidden jewel neighborhoods all over the city. The main arterial roads often look terrible — old, worn out strip development is still far too common — but if you man up, pop a couple of courage pills and get off the arterial road, you will often find lovely neighborhoods. I’ll show you. There is definitely a chance you will survive.
It takes a long time to live down a bad reputation. A lot of people are operating on bad information. I’ll make a standing offer right now: if any freeper wants his eyes opened, I’ll drive you around the east side. (You don’t need to see the white ghetto west of Rock Creek Park; it’s rich, safe, gorgeous, and you already know that.) When I retired, I decided to explore a bit and fill in the blank spots on my own mental map of the city. I now know corners of the city that I would have regarded entirely as no-go areas not so long ago. And I’ve discovered that even our lower income, working class neighborhoods are clean and well kept. There is ONE common denominator of the really bad areas: public housing projects. LBJ seeded cancers all over the city. To find real destitution and ominous vibes, look for the projects. As those age out, many of them are not being replaced. Close the projects, and the neighborhood rebounds quickly.
Where should the project people go? Most of them actually can and will find places in the regular rental market, and they will be better off for it. Especially if they have a job, even a very low paying job. The ones who will struggle are the welfare lifers and the criminals. Where should they go?
Baltimore. Or Mars. But I’m all for pricing them out of DC, and good riddance.