Mixed-income neighborhoods are great, but fragile. We are definitely not low income, and living in mixed part of town is so much nicer tgatn thise, supposedly, high income parts. The thing is so, by livng where we live we are actually gentrifying the neighborhood. Whether we want or not (we don't), it is just a matter of fact. Which is said, because despite being by no means hip or artsy of so, the neighborhood is really doverse and colorfull. Despite being mainly housing, there still are small shops and bars. And it is great for kids to be exposed to different social circumstances, our older one went for day care reaons to a school in a more affluent neighborhood, our smaller one to a school just across the street. And the differences are stunning and subtile at the same time.