Even in California, whenever someone says ‘this neighborhood is nice’ or ‘this town is safe’, I always look up redlining. Almost always, the nice, safe places are places where Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native and other people were not allowed to buy homes. This is recent history.
I am so allergic to anyone who says words like nice and safe.
Learning about redlining helps me see why
It’s almost always a perfect match for the places where non-white people were banned from living