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Originally Posted by Crawford
Eastpointe is a declining, high-crime near-slum, drained by white flight. It's basically an extension of Northeast Detroit, which is the worst part of Detroit. Immigrants aren't headed to Eastpointe.
And immigrants aren't gonna go to the Deep South, Appalachia, rural areas, etc. They came here to work and start businesses. The fact that you can buy a home in rural West Virginia (or rural Sicily for that matter) for $1 is irrelevant.
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I'm sure you're right about Detroit, that was a 2 minute Zillow filter search in Michigan. However, that doesn't mean America doesn't have affordable places for immigrants to settle in. Also, that was Zillow, there are even cheaper options for immigrants to find homes, shared rooms on Craigslist. They could probably find a room for a couple hundred bucks in many cities across America.
Also, re-read my post. I was specifically talking about refugee immigrants (almost always poor). Not a highly educated person from London or Paris.
Large refugee immigrant communities don't pop up in wealthy areas, they settled in slums, poor areas or the most affordable parts of town and then build it up from there.