EDIT for Post #18
Cross posted with Lergnom. Was in response to evermom1 story. 
We live in a non-majority neighborhood. A very varied mix of ethnicities and races. Iâm glad that my kids went through school having the experience of not being the majority.
My D and her H are now the only non-African-Americans in their neighborhood and are very happy there.
Not only would I, but I have.
However, I have immense white privilege and probably wouldnât have the same response if I was the only person of color in a predominantly white neighborhood.
Interesting that you feel your children would have been excluded, Marian. Do you feel that kids of different races canât get along as a group? Thatâs not what Iâve seen
AFAIK, I am the only white person on my two-block street, unless my son is staying with us when he is doing local jobs. On one side of my house is a Hispanic family, on the other a group of college students who are Asian and black. Across the street are two homes with black families, and one belonging to a retired Asian couple. Down the street is another Hispanic family and at the other end, an East African family and a young Asian family. The younger kids all seem to play together, and Iâve never been treated with anything but politeness by anyone.
I love living where I do. The grocery store where I shop is filled with people from many origins, and I might hear a different language each time I go. There too, I am treated well. Itâs a nice difference from when we lived in North Seattle and my H was looked on with suspicion several times for being black in a mostly white neighborhood. When it was time to move, we purposely chose this area.
Emilybee, Iâve talked to Jewish people who grew up in small Southern towns where there were only one or two Jewish families and so many peopleâs lives seemed to revolve around their churches, and I canât even imagine having done so, or having had to deal with what they dealt with â including the proselytization attempts. Plus no decent bagels.
Ethnic diversity has always existed on my street, since Ive lived here, but now there is a demarcation between those who have lived here when it was affordable, say 15-20 years ago, and those who have moved in the last ten years.
Again ethnic diversity remains the same, but most newcomers seem to be employed in tech with apparently high salaries, instead of the blue collar workers who work in local industry. The neighborhood restaurant, is now a * gastropub* with " small plates", and you could easily spend $30 per person ( without alcohol) and still be hungry. We donât even have an Ivars for petes sake.
Density means locally owned businesses are being forced out when the building is sold, without enough notice to relocate. Then what moves in are your national chains, just like in San Diego, or San Antonio, or Saint Paul.
I guess I am just irritated because our tax assessment went up, AGAIN, even though the single family house across the street just sold for $80,000, UNDER assessed value, to a developer.
Its not allowed to complain about density or gentrification, if you are white however.
I guess I could move back to Yesler, where my mom grew up, when the neighborhood was Jewish and Asian.
Funny we do it all the time , especially Black professionals, we are always the onlyâŠonly ones in the neighborhood, only ones in mgmt, one of few in honors classes, âŠyou get used to it.
I donât know if whites or Latinos are the majority in my neighborhood. African Americans are a minority, but a dad is on the Board. There is a unity about a boy with cerebral palsy. He rides his special bike daily, with an aide, and everyone is there to support him. Asians are the minority for now. I like the diversity.
@DonnaL, I only wanted to live somewhere which had a large enough Jewish population so the schools close for the Jewish Holidays.
@partyof5, we have very good friends who when looking refused to look in my town because there are so few black families. I donât blame that at all. The one family I do know send both their kids to private schools - one is a day student at an all girls boarding school and the other is at an all boys private day school in the neighboring city. Both schools are much more diverse than my suburban district.
In college I lived in a predominantly black community â in fact, my roommates and I were the only whites in about a 4-square block area. I always had mixed feelings about it, because it was the beginning of gentrification that eventually displaced much of these working class residents⊠residents whoâd been there for decades, and who wouldnât be able to compete with the eventual rise in rents/home prices. Iâm sure locals looked at us â these white college kids â and thought, âthere goes the neighborhoodâŠâ
It depends but probably not. I also wouldnât want to live in a neighborhood where I was the only old person.
There is no majority in my town, same with religion. Pretty diverse. But my area is newer so there are more rich Asians.
This is absolutely true. Iâve observed this first hand in asia, africa, ME. The white expat has privilege wherever he goes.
Seems like the âprivilegeâ in this case is that white people are much more likely to have a choice in this matter (obviously somewhat region dependent) than others.
Having lived all of my life as a member of a visible racial/ethnic minority group wherever I lived, it seems common and non-objectionable to me to live in such a place. But when I read stuff about âwhite flightâ or a claim by @Hanna on these forums that most white students would not attend a college where they would be a member of a minority group (or the implied assumption around these forums that historically black colleges should only be recommended to posters known to be black), that makes me wonder about whether there is a discomfort factor for people who spent all or most of their lives in places where they are members of the majority group (this can also apply to non-white people who live in places where they are the majority, though that situation is less common than for white people).
Regarding religion, since many replies mention it, assume for this question that the desired religious services and activities are available in or conveniently near the neighborhood. Assume the same for any desired cultural activities.
This is the root of the discomfort about Berkeley becoming plurality asian. And the fear that HYPS could also go this way if admissions go race-blind, like at the UC schools and the elite highschool magnet schools.
No, I wouldnât. I like a diversified neighborhood, both economically and racially, but I wouldnât want to be the minority and have to leave the neighborhood for MY food and MY types of shops and restaurants. Iâm not a leader.
Well, since in HI, there is no majority, by definition I have and will continue to do so. 
I think it depends on your definition of minority. As a Jew, I am a real minority world-wide (not even 1%) . In my suburban neighborhood, I am still a minority at 35%, but obviously that is disproportionate to the rest of the world. So from that perspective, I think I would be comfortable being a minority in the 20% range, whether that means ethnically or racially, but not much lower. Below that I would probably feel like I was the only one of my race or religion in certain settings, and I think it would make me more conscious of that. In my normal day to day dealings, race and religion just arenât things I think about. I would also prefer not to be the poorest or richest one in my neighborhood.
Living in a small Midwest town, I often wish it was more diverse.
Yes I would, but I havenât. We have moved 5 times and always try to buy in the most expensive neighborhood in the area, even if it means we live in the worst house. Doing so meant we got the best amenities (shopping, doctors, city maintenance) and the best public schools. The majority in those areas has always been white. Currently our neighborhood is mostly white, including several middle-eastern families on our block, plus several Asian families on the next street. I have seen one black couple out on a walk, and know of at least two nearby neighbors with Hispanic names. Our next door neighbor is Jewish.