I segregated myself from crime. I segregated my family to keep them safe.
I don’t care if someone is poor, I care that at 2am my neighbor is beating his girlfriend and she’s screaming and I have to go out there to stop it. I care that the neighbor kid is shooting a gun into the air yelling “MOTHER FUCKER” as a car screeches away, when my daughter is playing in the front yard, and the cops say “it was just a .22” and nothing is done. Whelp, I guess a .22 won’t kill my kid, nothing to worry about!
So I moved to the most expensive house I could afford (and honestly couldn’t afford it then, can now after some raises).
To be fair, my current neighbor beats his wife too, but at least he keeps quiet about it and didn’t make a whole scene when he got arrested. The lady down the way sells weed but like, she’s not getting into fist fights with the people she’s dealing to. People know how to behave in a nicer neighborhood, or at least keep their business their business.
It also has nothing to do with race as this neighborhood is more diverse than where I moved from (old neighborhood was basically only black people and white people vs professional immigrants of every stripe from every continent in the new neighborhood).
I don’t care if someone is poor, I care that at 2am my neighbor is beating his girlfriend and she’s screaming and I have to go out there to stop it. I care that the neighbor kid is shooting a gun into the air yelling “MOTHER FUCKER” as a car screeches away, when my daughter is playing in the front yard, and the cops say “it was just a .22” and nothing is done. Whelp, I guess a .22 won’t kill my kid, nothing to worry about!
So I moved to the most expensive house I could afford (and honestly couldn’t afford it then, can now after some raises).
To be fair, my current neighbor beats his wife too, but at least he keeps quiet about it and didn’t make a whole scene when he got arrested. The lady down the way sells weed but like, she’s not getting into fist fights with the people she’s dealing to. People know how to behave in a nicer neighborhood, or at least keep their business their business.
It also has nothing to do with race as this neighborhood is more diverse than where I moved from (old neighborhood was basically only black people and white people vs professional immigrants of every stripe from every continent in the new neighborhood).