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Originally Posted by eixample
Detroit is pretty overwhelmingly black, while Philly is not (78% to 42%). Philly and Chicago have relatively similar demographic breakdowns with Philly having a somewhat higher black population and slightly more Asians while Chicago is much more hispanic. I don't know if Philly looks all that much like Chicago but it definitely doesn't have much in common with Detroit from a built perspective. Philadelphia and Chicago have roughly similar drop offs from their mid-century population peaks while Detroit's population loss was way worse. Philly definitely isn't in Chicago's class in a lot of ways, but the comparison probably makes more sense to the extent you need to compare distant cities.
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Someone from New York told me once, that one thing he likes about NY is the diversity. I said I thought Chicago was pretty diverse and he said no, it's different.
What diversity means in NY is that if you take four random people on any street corner, one's from the Philippines, one's from Syria, one's from Honduras and one's from Buffalo.
But what diversity means in Chicago, is that if you pick four random people, one went to Michigan State, one to Indiana, one to Wisconsin and one to U of I.