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Originally Posted by galleyfox
I think true middle class is difficult to maintain in older cities.
The original middle class houses in older cities are usually a lot smaller than a modern 2 parent/2children/2 pets/2 car middle-class family would prefer, but they don’t have the same money to afford renovations as upper-class families.
So the housing just becomes low income over time.
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Yeah, maybe it's more a case of the middle class fucking over Chicago than the other way around.
As a fellow middle class person, I want to like more of them, but their tastes are fucking horrible, generally speaking. at least the family ones.
Anyway, a new construction house on the block over from us is hitting the market at $1.8M asking.
Oh shit, here comes the neighborhood.
Not that rich people are necessarily bad, but sometimes it seems impossible to keep an area for regular people stable for regular people over time in urban America these days.
Oh well, norwood park will never change.
So there's that, I guess.