I brought a house that was foreclosed. The house is in a
neighborhood that we looked at a few years ago and recently but
couldn't afford to buy into, until now.
When I went online to
look at the tax records for the neighborhood, I noticed a LOT of
"Middle Eastern" type names. When I drove around, the people I saw
confirmed it. Two neighbors across the street dress like they are from
India. The house I brought appears to have been rented out to multiple
people at one time. Each bedroom had front door entry type of locks.
From the mail, they were "Muslims/Arabs looking" names.
I've seen
Africans, whites, and Blacks. A Black family was first to introduce
themselves. A white woman across the street kept walking by while I was
doing stuff with contractors or home inspection, slowing down and
looking hard at me, so I spoke to her and said hello. I need to introduce myself to her and the "Indians" across the street.
Another neighbor and her husband
are from a Slavic country, but I don't remember the name of the country. She gave me
the run down on the homes for sale status. My house was the last house
on the market and the last foreclosure, so she's happy because the
neighborhood home values should stabilize. (She won't be happy when she
sees the tax records and how much I paid for it).
The
neighborhood I'm leaving is integrated, with whites and Blacks being
about equal, with Africans, Caribbeans, "Middle Easterns", and Asians
rounding out the place. But it's a more planned community, so you can
really do a good WALK or RUN unlike in my new neighborhood, although
the school system in my new neighborhood is MUCH better than what I'm
leaving.
I never cared about the racial makeup of a neighborhood,
as long as it was "nice" and has a nice economic and social and mental
class of people. So, I'm shocked when people have asked about the
diversity of the new area I'm going to live in. In all, I really don't
care. If it's "diverse", it's a "bonus."
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