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So inner cities are the worst.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:40 pm
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:40 pm
Maybe not.
Wall street Journal article behind a paywall, but here are some highlights.
Rural America is 'The New Inner City'
Wall street Journal article behind a paywall, but here are some highlights.
Rural America is 'The New Inner City'
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In tiny communities like Kenton, an unprecedented shift is under way. Federal and other data show that in 2013, in the majority of sparsely populated U.S. counties, more people died than were born—the first time that’s happened since the dawn of universal birth registration in the 1930s.
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Gutted neighborhoods and the loss of jobs and taxpayers contributed to a socioeconomic collapse. From the 1980s into the mid-1990s, the data show, America’s big cities had the highest concentration of divorced people and the highest rates of teenage births and deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer. “The whole narrative was ‘the urban crisis,’” said Henry Cisneros, who was Bill Clinton’s secretary of housing and urban development.
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Today, however, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows that by many key measures of socioeconomic well-being, those charts have flipped. In terms of poverty, college attainment, teenage births, divorce, death rates from heart disease and cancer, reliance on federal disability insurance and male labor-force participation, rural counties now rank the worst among the four major U.S. population groupings (the others are big cities, suburbs and medium or small metro areas).
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Although federal and state antipoverty programs were not limited to urban areas, they often failed to address the realities of the rural poor. The 1996 welfare overhaul put more city dwellers back to work, for example, but didn’t take into account the lack of public transportation and child care that made it difficult for people in small towns to hold down jobs, said Lisa Pruitt, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law.
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There has long been a wage gap between workers in urban and rural areas, but the recession of 2007-09 caused it to widen. In densely populated labor markets (with more than one million workers), Prof. Moretti found that the average wage is now one-third higher than in less-populated places that have 250,000 or fewer workers—a difference 50% larger than it was in the 1970s.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:43 pm to LZ83
white privilege is overstated?
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:44 pm to Guess
Surrounding burbs have out priced themselves. People would rather put up with the hood rats than drive an hour into the city. Don't blame them.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:45 pm to LZ83
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Ok, so?
Was just looking for some possible discussion on the subject. A lot of country guys like to hate on city folk.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:48 pm to Guess
This subject is nothing new. Rural areas have always been poorer with less job opportunities. To use this data as the argument for urban living is intellectually dishonest. The real problem with the inner cities is you are significantly more likely to be a victim of a crime.
This post was edited on 5/28/17 at 9:49 pm
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:49 pm to Guess
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A lot of country guys like to hate on city folk.
And vice versa. For centuries
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:49 pm to AUCE05
I'd rather drive than deal with culcha
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:53 pm to CoachChappy
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The real problem with the inner cities is you are significantly more likely to be a victim of a crime.
Good Point, I just threw out a few highlights, but that was addressed.
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In many cities, falling crime has attracted more middle- and upper-class families while an influx of millennials delaying marriage has helped keep divorce rates low.
And yes crime is generally falling in all midsized to large cites, even the ones you think of as high crime cities.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 9:55 pm to AUCE05
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Surrounding burbs have out priced themselves. People would rather put up with the hood rats than drive an hour into the city. Don't blame them.
Yep. I naively feel safe in my neighborhood in Atlanta. It is one of the safest in-town areas, but then yesterday a SunTrust inside Publix a couple miles away was held up, and a popular upscale gastropub was held up last night and the crew tied up. Also 2 miles away from us. I'll be spending a lot more time in MT, where my biggest human risk is a pissed off congressman.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:02 pm to TigersHuskers
quote:I'd rather deal with black people than live around nothing but boring cookie cutter shite
I'd rather drive than deal with culcha
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:08 pm to Guess
Most people make their money, then move out of the city to the suburbs or a nice gated community or one far away from the hoodrats.
It's not often that ole Billy Bob living in BFE gets rich off of building a trailer park or hitting the lottery, then move into the city.
This isn't anything new.
And for your link.
It's not often that ole Billy Bob living in BFE gets rich off of building a trailer park or hitting the lottery, then move into the city.
This isn't anything new.
And for your link.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:10 pm to Guess
Is what happens when a disproportionate share of tax monies go to inner city shatholes. Donald Trump, I had hoped, would have had rural America and Veterans at the top of the list. Inner city folks need those rural communities to be stable. Have resided in both and opportunity in rural America is scarce, is kind of scary and it is rapidly aging.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:10 pm to SuperSaint
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I'd rather deal with black people than live around nothing but boring cookie cutter shite
Suburbanite here. Diverse community. Non-cookie cutter neighborhood.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:11 pm to SuperSaint
I dont live in da burbs. I live in a town of about 500
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:13 pm to Guess
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Rural America is 'The New Inner City'
Rekt
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:13 pm to TigersHuskers
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I live in a town of about 500
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:13 pm to TigersHuskers
quote:you call that living?
I live in a town of about 500
This post was edited on 5/28/17 at 10:14 pm
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:14 pm to The Boat
blue is the color of culcha
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:15 pm to SuperSaint
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you call that living?
yea. I have cities all within an hour or two drive and plenty to do there v
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