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

4kids4us
Tue, 12 May 2020 15:12:59 +0000

katliamom:

I’m shocked by this… I lived in Cupertino in the 70s… graduated from Monta Vista High School.

@katliamom Hmm, I wonder if you know my husband’s family. He also grew up in Cupertino in the 70s. He went to a Catholic high school, but Monte Vista was his neighborhood h.s.

MIL stayed in the family home, purchased in the mid-60s, until about 8 years ago. Many of her generation also stayed (several of her friends still live there). The parents of dh’s best friend from high school still live in the home he grew up in a few blocks from where Dh grew up. What we saw was not “white flight from the Asians” over the years, but that dh’s generation could not afford to buy homes in Cupertino. Two of dh’s friends lived with their parents after marrying in order to save enough money to buy a home, but neither bought in Cupertino, but rather in San Jose. Dh, nor his four siblings returned to Cupertino after college. When dh and I got married, we were living on the East Coast and Dh was faced with a career change. We would have loved to move back to the Bay Area, but it was just too expensive.

Dh grew up on a court. One by one, MIL’s neighbors sold their homes as their kids moved away and their homes were too big for them. Several, not all, were purchased by Asians. MIL was the last of the original homeowners to sell and yes, her home was purchased by Asians for a ridiculously high price.