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Cultural mixing happens both ways. Sometimes inclusion means changing long standing traditions.
Real estate law has this concept of “Coming to the nuisance” where if you know that there is some kind of “nuisance” nearby and you move next to it anyway, you can’t complain about it later. I’m not a lawyer so I’m probably pedantically wrong about it in some way but that’s my understanding of it. People do this with small local airports all the time. They move in, knowing full well (or should know full well) that th…
There is a nearby new housing development with residents complaining about the air pollution (apparently it is really smelly) - and their response is "yeah, we've been here since before you were born, so whatev". It cracked me up.
Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea?
If I land a remote job I’m selling my place and moving to San Antonio.
As soon as foreigners invade your shores (er, real estate spaces) move to grandfather a cap property tax that is particularly beneficial for long time real property owners.
I understand that at first, this would do nothing to alleviate the attack on the local culture. The same foreigners would still call the cops.
Yet, with enough time, the latino locals would have been rich latino locals, from simply holding onto property, and renting it out to new arrival..s making a killing.
Then those rich latinos would have had some dollars to contribute to local pols. That could be a group happy to push on repeals of noise or public assembly ordinances.
Rinse,repeat.
You would have a full-fiesta by now. There goes the neighborhood!
Opportunity lost.
"The new arrivals have forced many Black residents to move out of the city: In 2000, about 10 percent of the Austin’s 656,000 residents were Black. By 2017, that percentage had dropped to around 7.5" Well, article definitely commits a statistical fallacy there. Austin is one of the fastest growing cities, especially from 2000-2017 period. The fact that the percentage went down (from 9.5 to 7.5), while the city's popu…
"Another Weaver resident voiced more generalized criticism, calling the event a 'display of toxic masculinity.'"
"The new arrivals have forced many Black residents to move out of the city: In 2000, about 10 percent of the Austin’s 656,000 residents were Black. By 2017, that percentage had dropped to around 7.5" Well, article definitely commits a statistical fallacy there. Austin is one of the fastest growing cities, especially from 2000-2017 period. The fact that the percentage went down (from 9.5 to 7.5), while the city's popu…
That stood out to me too. I didn’t know the exact figures, but the peculiar wording of it felt like the author was trying to slip one by me.
"The new arrivals have forced many Black residents to move out of the city: In 2000, about 10 percent of the Austin’s 656,000 residents were Black. By 2017, that percentage had dropped to around 7.5" Well, article definitely commits a statistical fallacy there. Austin is one of the fastest growing cities, especially from 2000-2017 period. The fact that the percentage went down (from 9.5 to 7.5), while the city's popu…
None of these numbers will give information on who was forced out. You'll need migratory data for that.
[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22926/austin/population#:....