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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One wonders why they stay there.  [/quote]
As previously pointed out, it's not easy to move when there's an infrastructure built around your culture. There's the Jewish schools and yeshivas, kosher restaurants, synagogues, etc. and it's also not entirely easy to pick up and move away from a place your family has lived for generations.

My grandparents lived in an Orthodox neighborhood in Baltimore. It's still majority Orthodox, though there are a number of AA families now, starting in the 1980s. (Traditionally, Baltimore AAs and Jews have gotten along really well.) When their Orthodox neighbors moved out, to be closer to one of theirs daughters--this was a 9-child family with modern "arranged marriages"--another Orthodox family moved in. [/quote]

ok.  It does seem like a post-apocalyptic city, though.[/quote]

Parts of downtown may, but not Pikesville, which is where a lot of the Jewish population  have gravitated to.[/quote]

Yeah, making assumptions about Baltimore based on cnn and the wire is like assuming everyone in DC is as well dressed
As Serena underwood.....in other words, not true.  [/quote]

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