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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from Johnstown PA and feel that way from afar. Tons of natural beauty in the area. Then I go there and realize I don't want to make my kids grow up without the diversity they have now, especially since we are POC. I read what some of my former friends write on social media and feel like the crappy economy matches their crappy belief systems. [/quote]

I'm from a small town near the Finger Lakes and as my parents are getting older I think about this every time I visit. It's gorgeous and homes are so much more affordable. But I grew up almost entirely around only white people and that's not what I want for my kids (although I am white myself). I also couldn't wait to escape. In the DMV you don't have to choose, you can have education, opportunity, independence, AND family. (But you can't have a stunning Victorian mansion for $300k.)

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How did growing up around mostly white people adversely affect you?[/quote]

NP.  It made me very unaware/oblivious to the ways racism still exists in the world today.  I was lucky that I made a wide variety of friends in high school and college and learned a lot about a much wider range of racial and socio-economic and cultural experiences than were available to me growing up.  I said and did some very insensitive things that I still blush to remember.  I also have a non-traditional family and I enjoy living somewhere the other parents aren't ALL straight/white/coupled/monolingual/etc.  Diversity in multiple directions makes the ways we're each odd stand out less aggressively.[/quote]

Similar story here. Have you watched "the s3x lives of college girls" on HBO? I really identified with Pauline, the naive white girl. I made a lot of missteps and POCs weren't particularly nice about it. [/quote]

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