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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The other thing that is going to be very hard to understand initially (I grew up here, but my husband, who is Latino, grew up in NYC and we lived there for a while) is that even though there is now a fairly large Latino population, the city is racially polarized along black and white lines and the haters do not seem to see that anything else exists. My husband says he has NEVER lived in such a segregated environment, and he grew up partially in the South Bronx and Spanish Harlem. And because the tradition is Black vs White, there is still a lot of hostility there from parents, especially now that the city is no longer majority AA and some feel they are being pushed out of THEIR city by white gentrifiers. [/quote]

It cuts both ways, that kind of thing, and yes, that's what I want to avoid. Philly is very like that too. I grew up with it--and I get it. I don't like it, but I get it. New York is really not like that--even in areas where people are getting pushed out, which is most of Brooklyn at this point. I think in New York, different cultures may dislike one another, but they tend to be polite about it because they all work and live on top of each other. So yeah, to add to my wish list, I also want a neighborhood where everyone gets along and lives in harmony. A backyard with stables for our unicorns would also be nice.

Ross OOB also impossible? That neighborhood is expensive and no pets-filled.

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