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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Annapolis definitely feels blue collar and redneck, don’t know what you guys are taking about. About 50% of the people you’ll see there have tattoos, the food scene is 90% bar and pub food, there are no high end/sophistic restaurants, and it feels like a rustic town from the south. [/quote]

Huh???  Have we been to the same Annapolis?

Your description sounds more like Odenton and Glen Burnie.[/quote]

Yes, I’ve lived in Annapolis, and I’m born and raised in Bethesda. I’ve also lived around much of the US and even outside of it. Annapolis is not all multi-million dollar waterfront homes on the Severn River. Much of it is working-class and middle-class, and there’s a bunch of public housing within the city. Highland Beach and Parole have a lot of working-class rednecks. It’s not the rich la-la-la land you all wish it was, it’s like any other super segregated city from the south. Also, in my experience, the white people in Annapolis are way more racist and Trumpy than white people in Odenton, who are way more progressive. There is nothing high end about downtown Annapolis at all. It’s just a bunch of bars, pubs, grungy coffee shops like Rise Up. Anything fancy in Annapolis looks stuck in 2005, like Carpaccio.

[b]Odenton and Crofton are far more cosmopolitan than Annapolis ever will be. The only “diversity” in Annapolis is Black and Hispanic people living in public housing. Both Odenton and Crofton blow Annapolis out of the water when it comes to the percentage of college educated residents. Diversity in Crofton and Odenton includes Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Muslim, and Indian families. They have the highest percentage of foreign born families in all of AA County.[/b] The horrible/garbage public schools in Annapolis would never attract those families in a million years. Not even wealthy people in Annapolis want anything to do with those schools. [/quote]

This is not cosmopolitan. Lots of people from collectivist, low-trust nations, and just a few nations at that (India, El Salvador, Nigeria, and a few others), not "diverse" at all. These immigrants are doing well for their families here, achieving their wildest dreams, but are they civic-minded, proponents of western liberalism (not political liberalism but liberalism meaning the political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law), instead of racism, classicism, or caste-ism? Yes, these immigrants can have their perspective on what neighborhoods are attractive to them, but their definition of attractive, don't assume that non-immigrants, those of us whose families have been here for centuries, share the same values. Some of us may not want to live around people who are brand spanking new to American values, and who we are not sure take to heart American values. [/quote]

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