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Originally Posted by jtown,man
What's wrong with a bunch of middle-class families?
The more I ponder on the state of the American city the more I realize we need middle-class *families* in our actual cities. We have lower-class people in our cities, check. We have wealthy people in our cities, check. We have young single-people in our cities, check. We don't have middle-class families though(in sizable levels). This, to me, is what makes European and Japanese cities so special. "Normal" people live there. Here, normal people move to the burbs.
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I agree. I should clarify my statement that I think Sac gets an undeserved reputation for being boring 'cause it is considered a middle class sleepy city. It does have a lot of middle class government workers but it is also a lot more than that with a very diverse demographic which makes the fabric of the city interesting. It is just the 4th metro (2 of which can be considered world class) in Cali so often gets looked down on--in any other state (except maybe Texas) it would be looked at differently.