This is just another type of racism/classism.
When cities were full of working class lower income and immigrants upper class families did not want to live there and have their kids there. But now they’re moving in fluxes. And it just gets segregated more with the schools. When people say gentrification is ok because there’s “less crime” is dumb. The crime just moves. This kills any kind of movement that those cities have/had.

People moved to cities because they were younger and wanted something to do or be apart of. Didn’t have much money but there was always something to do and people to meet.

Isn't the cost of living higher in the city anyway? Idgi

In certain spots yeah but it wasn’t always. It used to be way cheaper

Damn, how do y'all remember threads from months ago

How is it racist or classist to move?.

It’s creating a dissonance. If there’s a spot with a lot of people who don’t make that much then a lot of wealthy people come and buy it it changes that area. Most of the time it’s white people.

I think people have and always will move to the city to escape areas that aren’t good for their mental health. I know a few gay kids that moved from their small town country life to the city so they wouldn’t feel ridiculed or harassed anymore

I wouldn’t say it’s racist or classist, it’s just how it is

Eh but that's just moving I understand gentrification and how it can affect culture and people but it's a location.

I don't things should be stagnant I think it's great that things shift and change all over.

That’s not who I’m taking about tho

priorities evolve. i think it has a lot less to do with 'families moving to cities' and it's more young people waiting later to settle down, get married, and have kids or opting not to do that at all.

A location that means a lot. I’d much prefer more music and art fashion scenes/movements than having some family move in and change the whole flow

One individual moving somewhere isn't really racist or classist, but on a macro level, it's one way that a capitalist society benefits certain groups along class and racial lines.

Not sure if this take is 100% relevant to the thread but I want to mention this because it annoys me. The trend these days seems to be (typically) white kids who come from middle class homes are forced out on their own right after HS or early 20s with no support from their parents anymore. They cant afford to live anywhere decent based on their current level of income so they move into the same neighborhoods their parents wouldn't have dared let them go near as juveniles. Multiple things usually happen from this. Businesses realize the demographic of the neighborhood is changing so abandoned buildings or dying businesses turn into things like Starbucks. Efforts to build the neighborhoods up increase because the demographic is changing and suburban types are integrating in drones. Police also start harshly cracking down on crime because it actually matters now when the white girl gets held up at knife/gunpoint vs the black kid walking home with headphones in his ears. Gentrification is very real, poor people pushed out of their own environments to cater towards others, but it also just bothers me that poor lives truly dont matter, problems only get solved when it happens to the middle class/wealthy kids.

Sorry for rambling this all sounds better in my head

you feel that way or you got numbers?

I agree Cookies, last time you made this thread it was weirdly worded against families like what’s wrong with starting a family in the city if that’s where you are and don’t wanna leave.

That being said what can be done? It’s literally Capitalist America just handing us a big fat L and we can’t do s*** about it, or not that I know of atleast

Honestly I don’t think we can do anything and it sucks. Like they’re trying to turn the melting pot into the white house

And yeah I worded it wrong last time. Like there’s nothing wrong with starting a family in the city, it’s just that people bring a family to the city and then complain about the city when that’s not what it was designed for.