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05-12-2014 03:46 PM |
For several decades we had "white flight" where property values in urban neighborhoods dropped precipitously as blacks moved in and others moved out. The current economic reality however, has the middle class(or the young, mobile, and aspiring to be) moving back to the city in "redeveloped" areas. Thus, their new neighbors are the very people the last generation urgently moved away from. It is the same feeling Americans have had for decades, just being expressed now in words since we, as a nation, lack the purchasing power to express it with our wallets.
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