White Families Sucked the Suburbs Dry
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A new book looks at how white families depleted the resources of the suburbs and left more recent Black and Latino residents “holding the bag.”
  • JoBo@feddit.uk
    12·
    10 months ago

    The article is fine. Blame the sub-editor for picking up one of the two metaphors in this quote:

    Marohn suggests that what’s happened in places such as Ferguson and Penn Hills is the equivalent of a Ponzi scheme. It’s “the development version of slash-and-burn agriculture,” he tells the author. “We build a place, we use up the resources, and when the returns start diminishing, we move on, leaving a geographic time bomb in our wake!”

    • rdyoung@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Again. Not a ponzi and definitely not slash and burn agriculture either. These neighborhoods exist and continue to have value for people. This “article” is hyperbolic bullshit and you lot have no idea what a ponzi actually is.

      Also that quote talks about specific neighborhoods, not surbubia as a whole. Neighborhoods have their place. I would suggest that people move further out of the city center like we have and buy for a lot cheaper with a lower cost of living. If you work from home, there is no reason to be in a massive neighborhood that will have the same drive time to shops, schools, etc than living in what I call country’ish.