If you are Jewish, does it impact where in the country you would move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

small Midwestern college town and went to college in a medium-sized Midwestern city with a huge Hillel

Mind sharing where this was, PP ?

Not the PP but maybe KU (University of Kansas in Lawrence)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

small Midwestern college town and went to college in a medium-sized Midwestern city with a huge Hillel

Mind sharing where this was, PP ?

Not the PP but maybe KU (University of Kansas in Lawrence)?

Not the previous person, but I went to Michigan and my roommate (a yooper) jokingly asked if I had horns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

small Midwestern college town and went to college in a medium-sized Midwestern city with a huge Hillel

Mind sharing where this was, PP ?

Not the PP but maybe KU (University of Kansas in Lawrence)?

Not the previous person, but I went to Michigan and my roommate (a yooper) jokingly asked if I had horns.

Michigan native here who went to Michigan decades ago. That's embarrassing that they said that. Yoopers are a little "different"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes it’s important. I wouldn’t bash the south though. There are a lot of thriving Jewish communities in Evangelical areas like Charleston, Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham etc.

True. I'm not Jewish, but grew up in one of those cities. You can add Savannah to that list, too. Very old Jewish community--goes back to its very early years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

small Midwestern college town and went to college in a medium-sized Midwestern city with a huge Hillel

Mind sharing where this was, PP ?

Not the PP but maybe KU (University of Kansas in Lawrence)?

Not Jewish but just toured UW-Madison with DD and their Hillel astounded me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to hijack this thread but as an African-American, I wholly agree with the sentiment of other posters. I would never retire to a town where there aren't others like myself. No explanation necessary.

I was going to say the same thing. I think there's probably a lot of overlap in where Jews and AAs would choose to live. As an AA, I like to live in areas that have at least 10-15% AAs. If I had my druthers I would always choose large coastal cities (and so far that's worked out, both West and East Coasts).

The trend is for AAs to move south.

There is not enough money in the world to make this AA move to Mississippi or Alabama. DMV is as far south as I will go and even certain southern areas of Virginia are off my radar. I didn't feel this way three years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to hijack this thread but as an African-American, I wholly agree with the sentiment of other posters. I would never retire to a town where there aren't others like myself. No explanation necessary.

I was going to say the same thing. I think there's probably a lot of overlap in where Jews and AAs would choose to live. As an AA, I like to live in areas that have at least 10-15% AAs. If I had my druthers I would always choose large coastal cities (and so far that's worked out, both West and East Coasts).

The trend is for AAs to move south.

There is not enough money in the world to make this AA move to Mississippi or Alabama. DMV is as far south as I will go and even certain southern areas of Virginia are off my radar. I didn't feel this way three years ago.

Aren’t a lot of people moving to places like Atlanta, Nashville, and Houston? NOT Mississippi and Alabama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very much so. I was the only Jewish kid in my school and was told I was going to hell on a regular basis. Would never want to experience any place where people are not used to Jews ever again.

Me too. That's why I moved to DC 30 years ago. But DC has gotten too crowded and crazy for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

small Midwestern college town and went to college in a medium-sized Midwestern city with a huge Hillel

Mind sharing where this was, PP ?

Not the PP but maybe KU (University of Kansas in Lawrence)?

Not the previous person, but I went to Michigan and my roommate (a yooper) jokingly asked if I had horns.

I had three Jewish roommates way back in the day at UChicago, and the parent of one was a holocaust survivor and showed me her tattoo number on her arm We sat for hours talking about man's inhumanity to man and American slavery. Being black and talking with this survivor about the holocaust, slavery, Jim Crow, anti-semitism cemented our unusual relationship. I was very sad when she died and even after several decades, I still think about her.

Hoping you know not all roommates were idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

small Midwestern college town and went to college in a medium-sized Midwestern city with a huge Hillel

Mind sharing where this was, PP ?

Not the PP but maybe KU (University of Kansas in Lawrence)?

Not the previous person, but I went to Michigan and my roommate (a yooper) jokingly asked if I had horns.

I had three Jewish roommates way back in the day at UChicago, and the parent of one was a holocaust survivor and showed me her tattoo number on her arm We sat for hours talking about man's inhumanity to man and American slavery. Being black and talking with this survivor about the holocaust, slavery, Jim Crow, anti-semitism cemented our unusual relationship. I was very sad when she died and even after several decades, I still think about her.

Hoping you know not all roommates were idiots.

This is a very nice story. No doubt this parent also valued your relationship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it’s important. I wouldn’t bash the south though. There are a lot of thriving Jewish communities in Evangelical areas like Charleston, Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham etc.

True. I'm not Jewish, but grew up in one of those cities. You can add Savannah to that list, too. Very old Jewish community--goes back to its very early years.

Many towns in the south have thriving Jewish communities. I'm in a smaller town than the ones listed above. Many folks live near the synagogue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to hijack this thread but as an African-American, I wholly agree with the sentiment of other posters. I would never retire to a town where there aren't others like myself. No explanation necessary.

I was going to say the same thing. I think there's probably a lot of overlap in where Jews and AAs would choose to live. As an AA, I like to live in areas that have at least 10-15% AAs. If I had my druthers I would always choose large coastal cities (and so far that's worked out, both West and East Coasts).

The trend is for AAs to move south.

There is not enough money in the world to make this AA move to Mississippi or Alabama. DMV is as far south as I will go and even certain southern areas of Virginia are off my radar. I didn't feel this way three years ago.

Aren’t a lot of people moving to places like Atlanta, Nashville, and Houston? NOT Mississippi and Alabama

Nothing wrong with Huntsville Alabama and Oxford Mississippi has a lot going for it. My experience is the south is a lot less racsist than the mid Atlantic and northeast.

[Anonymous]

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to hijack this thread but as an African-American, I wholly agree with the sentiment of other posters. I would never retire to a town where there aren't others like myself. No explanation necessary.

I was going to say the same thing. I think there's probably a lot of overlap in where Jews and AAs would choose to live. As an AA, I like to live in areas that have at least 10-15% AAs. If I had my druthers I would always choose large coastal cities (and so far that's worked out, both West and East Coasts).

The trend is for AAs to move south.

There is not enough money in the world to make this AA move to Mississippi or Alabama. DMV is as far south as I will go and even certain southern areas of Virginia are off my radar. I didn't feel this way three years ago.

Aren’t a lot of people moving to places like Atlanta, Nashville, and Houston? NOT Mississippi and Alabama

Nothing wrong with Huntsville Alabama and Oxford Mississippi has a lot going for it. My experience is the south is a lot less racsist than the mid Atlantic and northeast.

No and No. Not only are those places very difficult for a Jewish person to live their public school systems are horrible. Alabama 49th in the country. They would consider reelecting Roy Moore. And their thoughts that women are second class citizens. No thanks. The mid Atlantic and Northeast are nothing like either of those in terms of racism.

[Anonymous]

My dad is a physician, and he practiced in a small town in East Tennessee for decades, and neither he nor any of the other Jewish physicians in town ever had a problem or felt uncomfortable.