> I live in the Chicago South Side, in a neighborhood that is 99% black. I am not black.
May I ask why? This seems like a deliberate choice. It is, at best, met with suspicion by other residents.
May I ask why? This seems like a deliberate choice. It is, at best, met with suspicion by other residents.
I lived there for a variety of reasons that weren’t suspicious at all like price, location, commute, etc. my neighbors didn’t seem particularly suspicious of the decision…
Chicago is an extremely segregated city. In segregated cities, there is a nuanced thought process one must undergo to move into an area where you are considered an outsider. In Seattle for example, the tech community is overall reviled for having gentrified the Central District, where historically black areas were bulldozed to erect overpriced cardboard apartments for tech plebes. This is a legitimate question.
Another question is what will his answer do? How will your opinion of him change or be influence by his answer? Maybe he was born there. Maybe that's all he can afford. Maybe he found an apartment with a particular architectural style unique to that area he wants to live in. Maybe it's close to his friends, or close to his girlfriend, or not too close to his girlfriend, or close to his parents, or easy to get to work, or he often goes into central/southern IL or over to Indiana and doesn't want to drive through the city every time.
There are literally hundreds of possible reasons.
There’s a couple streets down in Kenwood that I don’t think have any equivalent on the north side though…