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Originally Posted by Docere
Except the Bay Area Chinese are less segregated than in New York and L.A.
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Within San Francisco, I see almost no racial segregation. What you do see is economic segregation and some "sexual preference" segregation: There are definitely very high income neighborhoods that tend to be practically all white ("billionaire's row"). But San Francisco Chinese tend to be either recently arrived and therefore fairly low income--and living in Chinatown--or middle income, often small business owners or professionals. These live in almost every neighborhood except those tip top most expensive ones. The single family home 'hoods in western SF--the Sunset and Richmond--that once were mostly white and now heavily Chinese.
https://www.businessinsider.com/maps...asian-people-6
The central areas that are relatively white are the well-known gay and liberal hoods like the Castro, Haight-Ashbury and so forth. The other relatively white enclave is those upper income zones I mentioned: Pacific Heights/Cow Hollow/Marina. Some of the Asian avoidance of the central zone has to do with the type of housing there: Lots of Victorian homes divided into flats most suitable for the childless or groups of roommates. Asians in the city often have families with kids (white people with kids usually move to the suburbs).