Re:Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get That Way? People Made Them
by guard-of-terra on Sunday April 19, 2015 @06:53PM
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Nowdays they might flee from muslim immigrants, just suppose.
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Re:Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get That Way? People Made Them
by kyllo on Sunday April 19, 2015 @07:55PM
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Yes, but they mostly live in the suburbs of cities like Paris, while the inner city remains affluent and white. Do Europeans just do a more effective job of keeping poor people and ethnic minorities from moving into the inner cities in the first place?
Re:Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get That Way? People Made Them
by toyg on Monday April 20, 2015 @06:58AM
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A lot of continental inner-cities (Paris, most Italian towns) were already too expensive way before "immigration waves" were even possible. In that sense, newcomers never got a chance. Any town that has existed since Roman times has had two thousand years in which to solidify the link between location and social status, to a point that will likely survive anything bar catastrophic events.