Town where I grew up is 88% white. 25% with Irish ancestry, 24% Italian. Pretty overwhelmingly houses built either in the '50s or before 1939. 24.3% of age 25 and higher have a graduate or professional degree, which is much higher than I would have guessed.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Aug 11, 2005 12:31:17 pm PDT #7448 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Jessica - Aug 11, 2005 12:33:12 pm PDT #7449 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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NYC is 35% white
brenda m - Aug 11, 2005 12:34:09 pm PDT #7450 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Huh. My home town is 96.1% white.
Mine's 45% white.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2005 12:35:19 pm PDT #7451 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
LA is 29.7% non-Hispanic white. Not that that has anything to do with my neighbourhood, but still.
EpicTangent - Aug 11, 2005 12:35:41 pm PDT #7452 of 10002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
My town lists a population of 72,422, with 72,419 living in "urban" and 3 living in "rural". Who are the 3 people living in Rural Mira Mesa? Where the heck is Rural Mira Mesa? The canyons?
Allyson - Aug 11, 2005 12:36:38 pm PDT #7453 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
LA:
654 murders (17.1 per 100,000)
1,415 rapes (36.9 per 100,000)
No one tell my mom, k?
Gudanov - Aug 11, 2005 12:36:41 pm PDT #7454 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
My home town (Topeka, KS) is 75% white, 25% college educated, and has a crime rating of 614.
Hil R. - Aug 11, 2005 12:37:09 pm PDT #7455 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Huh. Crime index 41.8 for where I grew up. Neat.
Also, their temperature things seem a bit screwy. At least, it sure seems like the average high for July ought to be higher than 85. Maybe it's just that a few 100+ degree days crowd out the less-hot days in my memories.
Gudanov - Aug 11, 2005 12:39:06 pm PDT #7456 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
654 murders (17.1 per 100,000)
Topeka beat that in 2001 (17.9 per 100,000).
Topeka decimated LA's rape rate. (68.5 per 100,000).
You can tell your mom that LA is safer than Topeka, KS.
Jessica - Aug 11, 2005 12:41:22 pm PDT #7457 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's fascinating comparing the stats for Chevy Chase (where I grew up) to DC (2 blocks from where I grew up).