Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Dumas Walker
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Apr 21 2025 11:40 am

On 20 Apr 2025 at 09:46a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...
 
 DW> > In Australia, at least in the bigger cities, we get gentrification.  Are
 DW> > which were affordable rise in price as other people are pushed out of mo
 DW> > expensive areas and move in.  We often here in Australia of "inner city
 DW> lums"
 DW> > in the US, but we don't really have that here.  The inner city may have
 DW> > graffiti and drugs, but its generally more "Bohemian" and sought after b
 DW> > young Liberal types who like quirky stores and Thai restaurants.  Apart 
 DW> > some graffiti, there is lots to do and see, whereas the 'suburbs' here a
 DW> or
 DW> > cultural wastelands with nothing.
 DW> 
 DW> Sounds similar to here, except we do have the slums.  Often, the
 DW> gentrified areas have to put up with higher crime rates on the count of
 DW> being located next to "the slums."
 DW> 
 DW> The suburbs are most often cultural wastelands, as they are there.  There
 DW> have been a few experimental suburbs built where they build "older
 DW> looking" (on the outside) homes and also build little shops and office
 DW> space in with them.  The idea is to make them more "walkable" and more
 DW> like a town than just a suburb.
 DW> 
 DW> 

I haven't been to slums in the  US, but from what video I've seen, they're worse than here.  I've seen "no go " areas in Europe, and again, thats a problem we don't have as much of here.

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