This analysis would be tremendously racist in America.
Only if you think of it that way...
I don't think someone could legitimately be offended by this.
How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
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#52Re: How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
#53If you want to dig deeper into this, I suggest reading "The Clustering of America", by Michael J. Weiss.
I think some of the key indicators it used were number of bowling alleys, liquor stores, and payphones (keep in mind, it was published in 1989).
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#54So besides "chicken shops" which must be a regional indicator for poor or undesirable what other establishments are also present? There should be an obvious transition type of business that precedes the coffee shop. Combined with chicken shops perhaps the availability of different businesses could give entrepreneurs an indicator where to set up similar or buy up space?
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#55Re: How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never been to China -- what went wrong?
He meant that there were so many chicken shops that he's tired of seeing chicken.
I'm getting tired of eating all possible permutations of chicken and rice. They're very tasty, of course, but it's getting too monotonous for me at this point.
Also everything that's not chicken and rice seems to be made out of sugar :<.
Re: How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
#57> Poor on average take worse care of their health and fitness Not intended to be snarky, as I grok the intent of your comment, but poor also don't typically have time to come home and go for an hour jog with frequency during the week.
That brings to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoNHIl-QLQ
But yes, you might say something like "don't typically have the energy do do more than plop down in front of the telly when they come home".
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#58My "rule-of-thumb" indicator: whether or not there are a lot of check-cashing, bail-bond and furniture rental establishments.
Same principle applies to 'big chain' type retailers and such. If the local grocery stores aren't large regional chain stores... likely not a good area.
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#59So besides "chicken shops" which must be a regional indicator for poor or undesirable what other establishments are also present? There should be an obvious transition type of business that precedes the coffee shop. Combined with chicken shops perhaps the availability of different businesses could give entrepreneurs an indicator where to set up similar or buy up space?
Estate agents, particularly ones that specialise in rentals.
London has a horrendous housing problem at the moment.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not from America - care to explain?
I'm not an American, but I believe they are referring to the racist meme that associates fried chicken to Americans of non-white ethnicities. This differs from the UK where fried chicken is more associated with the lower classes than a particular race.
And also coffee shops are associated to white people.