Quote Originally Posted by maverick1 View Post
I agree. As someone who is in the black middle class I can say most of my peers are still chasing the suburbs.
I recently moved to Hamtramck from Northwest Detroit, near where I grew up, because it was walkable and near Midtown/Downtown. I will say some of my friends/family which is very black and middle class questioned my move. If I had said I was moving to Farmington, I'm pretty damn sure they would not have thought it a little strange. I won't go so far as to say black people don't want to live downtown, I know plenty that do. But it doesn't seem to have the same appeal to black 20 and 30-somethings even if they're as well-off as their white counterparts.