Has middle class "white flight" occurred in your region?

katliamom
Mon, 11 May 2020 17:30:28 +0000

Nhatrang:

Interesting. So where did the white folks go?

Well, since Cupertino had many Asians, it wasn’t just white folks leaving. My CHINESE neighbors bought in Albany so they could be closer to their daughter, a professor at Cal. Another neighbor bought land outside of Sacramento. My best friend’s family moved to the outskirts of Seattle.

Again, this wasn’t a case of “white flight,” this was a case of an ordinary California suburb finding itself at the epicenter of Silicon Valley (thanks to Apple, although it was home to other tech companies, some of which no longer exist, Measurex, for example.) Most people who didn’t have a reason to stay in Cupertino opted to take their considerable home equity elsewhere and moved up in size and comfort level. I saw the same happen in nearby Sunnyvale and Santa Clara as well.