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[quote=Anonymous]Someone previously mentioned Pittsburgh, where we recently moved.  It's great for health jobs (my field) and has the mix of blue and white collar residents (in the same neighborhoods) OP described.  We are very happy here.  FWIW, our incomes remained the same for the move, while our expenses plummeted.  I work fewer hours, spend less time in the car, we actually do more activities with the kids since getting to parks and museums is quick and easy (and the summer weather isn't too hot).

We recently had friends from DC visit with their kids.  The kids were watching the garbage men pick up the trash.  Our friends' 4 yo said:  "I thought all the garbage men were brown.  I've never seen a white garbage man before!"  Certainly PGH has a number of serious race and class issues of its own, but living here made we realize how in DC, despite all the talk about the diversity, is still an extremely segregated city where most of the service jobs are filled by people of color and the white collar jobs are filled by whites. [/quote]

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