I have to side with @Urbanacus.
Not only do I think you’ve never been to New York, but I also think you’ve never met a poor person.
BTW, I’ve been to Chicago a couple of times.
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Well, that’s pretty damn clever of your map to have a category “2,220-38,501”. That kind of completely covers impoverished to lower middle class, making it completely meaningless.
Here is a far more meaningful map of Chicago. Notice how there are a lot of areas where where the median is less than $14K.
https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Illinois/Chicago/Household-Income
BTW, Chicago is 32% Black[1] as opposed to NYC’s 25%[2] (that’s all boroughs, btw, and that’s falling), so let’s be honest about claims of diversity here.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Chicago
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#Ethnicities_and_enclaves
I don’t know what you’re after with the ethnic stats, the cities have identical white populations, ~45%, NYC has more latinos and 12% Asians. So what?
Does this map make you happier?
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A bit more, but still, it is rather telling that it bottoms out at $20K, while whole neighborhoods of Chicago are two thirds that. Also, NYC’s Latino population is rather atypical, and only 13.5% Mexican [1]. (Compare against 63% nation wide [2] or 75% in Chicago [3]. I mean it’s nice that people who have lived in NYC for generations still consider themselves Puerto Rican, but that’s basically like the Americans who think they’re Irish.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#Latin_American
[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/18/how-the-u-s-hispanic-population-is-changing/
[3] http://www.chicagotribune.com/hoy/ct-mexicans-and-hispanics-largest-minority-in-chicago-20171013-story.html
The nerve of them to call themselves Puerto Rican! Just as ridiculous as those people have been here for even more generations who call themselves African American.
Being here for generations is no vaccine against poverty. Not to mention that most of the Latinos I come in contact with daily have not been born here. But then, most of them are working their asses off.
So what, just move all the people who are making silicon valley unlivable for most people to NYC? I’m no Hari Seldon, but I seem to think all that will do is create the same problems in NYC which is already a place that’s absurdly expensive to live in.
Ya think?
Add all the wonderful things that Silicon Alley have done to create a better society, and the irony gets even thicker…
End hunger though high frequency trading!
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