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

katliamom
Mon, 11 May 2020 01:29:01 +0000

Twoin18:

The change in Cupertino demographics is nothing to do with race and all about the fact that house prices have gone up by about a factor of 100 since 1970 (from $15000 to $1.5M). So for most homeowners in the Bay Area their house represents their main retirement savings. It’s unsurprising that many of those who lived there in 1990 and before have retired and moved out. And the demographics of the people who have moved in are those of the workers at Apple down the road.

That’s my impression, too. Of all the Cupertino families I knew in high school, only one is still there. Everyone else sold (for what they thought were staggering prices) and bought bigger homes, on bigger lots, elsewhere in the Bay Area or out of state. And as you say, race had nothing to do with it. It was a desirable suburb then, and it remains a desirable suburb today.