02-25-2011, 03:45 PM
(02-25-2011, 01:01 PM)EastCoastKat Wrote:(02-25-2011, 12:44 PM)My3littlepiggies Wrote: Don't be knockin' my city. I am not a thug but I am a 3rd generation south ender and I take pride in where I am from. Not gang pride but we can't all be suburban snobs. Thats what they call "white flight". People get scared and leave and don't put anything back in.
I agree, I have seen happen with so many cities, it started with "white flight" and then went to middle class flight, trying to get their kids out of the cities.
"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man."
"The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."
~ Thomas Jefferson