Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (35454)	4/20/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The reason the statistics are so squirrelly is that they are measuring different populations. The residents of the "inner city" of Washington, D.C., are poor blacks, many of whom are below poverty line in Southeast suburbs of D.C., and are receiving government assistance. The affluents live in some of the suburbs (Potomac, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase, MD; McLean and Great Falls, VA.; and Northwest suburbs of D.C.) The wealth here is staggering. People who live in parts of California, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and the like, are familiar with similar wealth, however. The poverty here isn't as bad as where I am from (New Orleans) or other places where there is a large concentration of poor people. IMHO.

To: Grainne who wrote (35454)	4/20/1999 12:27:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Christine, I agree that the statistics are odd, in the sense of unexpected. But they are not "skewed" in the sense of "distorted". There is no "inner city" in the usual sense (depressed downtown) in Washington. Perhaps the worst area -- Anacostia -- is across the river, off the beaten track. It may indeed be 98% black. In any event, you will never see any well-to-do whites going there. But bear in mind that Washington also has a fair share of well-to-do blacks (who also avoid Anacostia). Even though I do not live in Fairfax County, Virginia (it is Cobalt Blue who lives there), I dare say it is true that "the experience of living in Fairfax County, Virginia is much different from a really gritty urban one." Let me add that the experience of living in Georgetown or Foxhall, in the District of Columbia, is also much different from a really gritty urban one. As a matter of fact, most of Washington is very beautiful (far more beautiful than my own modest neighborhood, just across the D.C. border in Maryland). But I am not a patriot of Washington proper or of the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area. It is just that the picture of fancy restaurant-goers terrorized by starving junkies simply does not correspond to reality. Joan