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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the burbs are so great, why aren't more white folks heading there, instead of wanting to stay in DC.  How do you know the suburbs are better for those people, but not for you?

Perhaps you want them out, so it will be more pleasant here for you.  As for the "they'd be better off" business, it's not for you to say.

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Ridiculous.  Lots of white folks do already live in the 'burbs.  But some of them work at jobs in DC and are tired of the commute, so that's why they want to move into DC.   [/quote]

I know, and apparently some of them expect the black folks to move out so they can buy their DC houses, fumigate them and live a walking/metro lifestyle, while the black folks take on the commute, or just veg  or find work in the suburbs.  [/quote]

I paid the middle-aged black woman who sold me my house $450k when she paid $150 20 years earlier. And, yep, she's living in the suburbs now. She lives right near her church. She's closer to her work. She's got more than double the amount of space. She's probably going to retire a decade earlier than she would have.

If you want to talk to the person responsible for "gentrification" and "displacement" you probably want to talk to her and the hundred thousand other middle-class black folk who abandoned the city in droves leaving a massive hole that's been filled by multi-ethnic newcomers.[/quote]

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