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Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mi... by cronix on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:48PM (#35048137)
> The reason that I think the Bay Area and other tech hubs are so expensive is that asians with PHDs who fly in for their $500k/year machine learning tech job want to live around other asians. They do not want to live in rural Utah where you can get a nice house for $200k and remote work, but there are no asians around and there's probably more discrimination.

You can probably safely extrapolate that to all races who move to a foreign country. They tend to want to live amongst themselves. Not necessarily for racist reasons, but because it's a bit more familiar and you have an easier time communicating with others speaking your dialect, as well as having similar customs and social norms.

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Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mi... by int_19h on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:37PM (#35050842)
It really depends. In some countries, a desire to escape the "customs and social norms", or sometimes the current political trends, is one of the popular motivations to immigrate. I know quite a few Russian immigrants in US who consciously avoid areas with large proportion of compatriots and community events etc for this exact reason. More so since the war, of course, but it was already a thing when I moved here 12 years ago.
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Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mi... by hysan on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:59AM (#35052092)
Another reason is the belief that there is a level of safety that comes with living with others in the same culture/religion/etc. not saying that it works out in practice, but it is something that holds some sway.
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Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mi... by 8note on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:50AM (#35052375)
> Not necessarily for racist reasons, but because it's a bit more familiar and you have [...] similar customs and social norms.

So, racist reasons?

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