This doesn't match my experience at all. I moved because I could afford a house in the suburbs, and the lower population density decreases chances of conflict.
Not everyone is racist like this
Not everyone is racist like this
The word choice should make you suspicious. When is the last time you heard a white person called a "hood-rat"?
In the context of this thread, which is about whether people leave cities under the guise of doing so for safety to excuse the real underlying reasons of racism, this answer isn't that satisfactory.
It's the reverse of "I have a black friend". It's "I was scared of white people too". Obviously only you can know the true reasons, but please don't think that just because you made a decision for one set of circumstances that no one made the choice for other reasons.
Instead of relying on anecdotes you can look at the data which shows that white people do leave areas in cities with more black people in them. The data is not described by pure economics. The evidence is that some people are making the conscious or unconscious decision to racially segregate.
Two people happily chimed in to challenge my subjective statement. Statements about how bad cities are and the issues caused by systemic lack of investment in social services rarely face much criticism.