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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is they are there largely because the Israeli government has encouraged and incentivized it.   [/quote]

Bingo![/quote]
np, I had the same question as OP.   IMO, even if the govt provided monetary incentives, I would not want to live in a neighborhood that borders an area where people hate me, and actively have had in the past committed violent acts against people like me.

It's like a POC  or a Jew choosing to live in a neighborhood that borders a town that is known to have a lot of white supremacists.    That seems like not a good idea.

I'm a POC myself.[/quote]

Your assumption is that they live there because it's their number one choice. Most of the times you live in some places because that's the best you can afford.

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PP here.. I actually grew up poor, child of uneducated immigrant parents. I could tell you horror stories of how we lived when we first moved to the US.  However, my parents would not have moved us into an area that was close to a warzone, especially given how my parents lived through a warzone themselves when they were younger.  They would've rather we lived in a refugee camp outdoors, which is what they did, than live next to a warzone.

I am not so sure that every person who chose to live in that area did so due to not having any other choices.[/quote]

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