I'll just start doing the same thing a couple driving by did at a place I lived 10-15 years ago: roll down the window and ask "is this a mixed neighborhood?"
Are the streets some cutesy theming combination clearly made by some marketing committee? Do they honor modern-day thieves and/or rapists, or the saints that those groups pray to?
You go down a road, and see "Flutterby Point Blvd", "Tinselgrass Lane", and "Oakheart Circle" as you drive by. Then down another road, you see "Jussie Smollet Memorial Lane", "Floyd Parkway", and "BLM Blvd" down the way.
Without any further data, no demographics like "mixed neighborhood", no tax information, no even looking at the general wealth displayed on or in front of the homes, I think it's pretty easy to guess which one is going to have better long-term property values.
To quote Chris Rock, "Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence. Now what’s Martin Luther King? A street. And I don’t give a fuck where you are in America, if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down."
Camden has an MLK and Malcolm X intersection. You have to pass it to go to the E Centre. It looks like a warzone and has looked like that for 50 years.
I'll just start doing the same thing a couple driving by did at a place I lived 10-15 years ago: roll down the window and ask "is this a mixed neighborhood?"
Step 1: Drive down a road.
Step 2: Note every street name.
Are the streets some cutesy theming combination clearly made by some marketing committee? Do they honor modern-day thieves and/or rapists, or the saints that those groups pray to?
You go down a road, and see "Flutterby Point Blvd", "Tinselgrass Lane", and "Oakheart Circle" as you drive by. Then down another road, you see "Jussie Smollet Memorial Lane", "Floyd Parkway", and "BLM Blvd" down the way.
Without any further data, no demographics like "mixed neighborhood", no tax information, no even looking at the general wealth displayed on or in front of the homes, I think it's pretty easy to guess which one is going to have better long-term property values.
To quote Chris Rock, "Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence. Now what’s Martin Luther King? A street. And I don’t give a fuck where you are in America, if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down."
Was it him who had a joke that was something like "If you're on the crossroad between MLK Boulevard and Malcolm X you in the bad part of town"?
Camden has an MLK and Malcolm X intersection. You have to pass it to go to the E Centre. It looks like a warzone and has looked like that for 50 years.
Even in sleepy Waco, Texas 20 years ago. When I accidentally turned onto MLK Boulevard, I thought I had entered a war zone.
Don't forget his "If a friend ever calls you and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard, tell them: RUN!!!"
From NYC, can confirm. Though the MLK St in St Pete Is pretty nice. The exception that proves the rule I suppose.
The one in Lakewood, NJ isn't too bad either.