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closeupready

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7. +1. It's growing increasingly impossible to live well

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #6)

Tue May 21, 2013, 02:34 PM

May 2013

on a typical income in every major US city.

Wasn't it just yesterday someone posted the story that suburbs have more poor people as a percentage of population than inner cities today?

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Urban Class Warfare: Are Cities Built for the Rich? [View all] xchrom May 2013 OP

Yes. New York with the 85 story building for the 1% flamingdem May 2013 #1

It's becoming more and more like that gopiscrap May 2013 #2

This is not a trend it started in the 60s olddots May 2013 #3

City living requires wealth, cooperation, discipline and organization FarCenter May 2013 #4

it requires only money. the difference between a slum and a regular neighborhood is money. HiPointDem May 2013 #5

How do you explain the ability of an equally poor immigrant group to turn around slum neighborhood? FarCenter May 2013 #8

i explain it by the fact that they are not 'equally poor'. and if you look into the details of HiPointDem May 2013 #9

cities are being deliberately ethnic & class-cleansed. HiPointDem May 2013 #6

+1. It's growing increasingly impossible to live well closeupready May 2013 #7