Then you have liberal types sitting around wondering why once solid (even once wealthy) areas go to crap. And why they won't come back, no matter how much money you throw at them.
But they never ask the people that end up moving. I have talked with people that have. Come to think of it, I am one of those people just the next generation of it.
Its interesting to say the least. And those liberals would not like what they would say about it. As far as liberals are concerned, its not part of the discourse. The movers are and will always be racists. Racists for leaving people behind.
Example:
At the beginning of the 20th century, a good portion of my extended family lived on the south side of Chicago in the Roseland neighborhood. If you are know today's Chicago, Roseland is an area you don't go into. Its a poverty filled hell hole ghetto. But a century ago, it was a solid middle class area filled with business owners, industry, well built and maintained homes and a big shopping street. Many in my family went from having nothing to becoming wealthy in that neighborhood.
But to its north was the ghetto. It was kept at bay for decades, but after world war II cracks began to appear. Yes, more areas in the suburbs began to be developed so there were more options. By the 1960's the tide had turned in Roseland. Business was declining as the interest in a good economy was no longer a priority at Chicago city hall. Roseland turned from a solid middle class area into the basket-case it still is a half century later. By the mid 1970's it was seen as a "bad" neighborhood by most. There is no shopping street, no industry, and no business community at all. Now its filled with poor people that don't work. Even if you want to work, you aren't going to do it here, you have to go somewhere else to work.
Liberals call it white flight.
But the reality is quite something else. Neither the people leaving or moving in were the winners in it all. The ones that left managed to move on (so to speak) those now in Roseland are rotting away and frankly nothing is changing there. If anything, its gotten even worse in the last two decades, as the housing stock is largely over a century old, getting older and few are maintained much.
To those that moved, they were forced out by politics much larger then themselves. Politics that endangered their businesses, livelihoods, organizations etc. Richard J. Daley and his ilk never much cared for communities like Roseland as they weren't solidly Democrat (yes, Chicago once had neighborhoods that were more Republican then Democrat believe it or not). So they were to be pushed out even if it meant impoverishing the whole neighborhood. Because the ghetto could be counted on to vote Democrat by that point.
Most of the people who left say they really didn't want to leave, and had they had the power, stopped the decline of the area, and would have stayed. That you NEVER hear in the discourse.
People fought as long as they could, and seeing they were losing, left with heavy hearts.
Thankfully most did well in their new homes and maybe even better had they not been forced out of Roseland. The elite got what they wanted, a solid Democrat hood.
The cycle continues. I lived in a south suburb that was a solid middle class area. Now, its poverty city. Now also an all Democrat controlled area.