re: It's complete BS Shenandoah Estates is turning into a ghetto trash hood

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The formerly greatest neighborhood in the United States of America in the 80s and 90s is falling victim to the movement of demographics.

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White Oak >>>>

White Oak doesn't even have curbs, gutters or sidewalks.

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Can anyone here name one ‘nice’ city in America or hell, even small town, that has a significant amount of culcha?

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There sure aren’t many. And I don’t know why it has to be that way, but that’s the way it is.

Hood now

Louisiana? Ghetto trash? No way!

This thread happens every few months now.

As I sit in Shenandoah now visiting, this thread is making a ton of points about people and neighborhoods but ignoring the fact the homes on the edges of the neighborhood are 40-50 years old. They show their age and I would imagine command a lower price. If you have lower priced homes you will get lower income families and the consequences that follow. The race card here seems inappropriate and I am not a PC person. This is a natural process aging neighborhoods go through, it stinks and it’s sad to see.

From the outside looking in I had hoped st George would pass to have more control of the schools to keep them good. Maybe raise property tax and cut down on section 8, if that is possible.

In LA that probably is considered racist. Elsewhere, people don’t flip out when people that look different move in, especially when cheaper equivalent housing can be found. If you are paying a premium to move somewhere for less home, you likely want to be there and will be a good neighbor.

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Elsewhere, people don’t flip out when people that look different move in,

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Oh that’s such lazy bullshite to say. Grow up. People just don’t want their neighborhoods destroyed.

I sympathize and I am more than grown up. I was bussed around BR in public school in the 80s and 90s, from Shenandoah. I have seen some terrible parts of BR. That being said the problems mentioned in this thread, in relation to Shenandoah, have to do with the age and undesirablilty of the really old houses in the neighborhood. They command a lower price, what do you expect to happen. My argument is that income level matters more than race in the quality of your neighbors. It’s not the only thing and there are always exceptions. You live in a city where less than 50% of the people likely look like you. Get real and get some perspective. It sucks, I get it but recognize the root cause is not race, which in BR is not always the case.