# City dwellers: What ethnicities and cultures populate your neighborhood? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-dwellers-what-ethnicities-and-cultures-populate-your-neighborhood/368822 "2006-08-15T13:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-dwellers-what-ethnicities-and-cultures-populate-your-neighborhood/368822/21 "2006-08-15T19:50:40Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] No can’t be Ipswich with so few people :smack: [/QUOTE] 'Twas the figures for Suffolk Coastal, actually…Ipswich has 6% ethnic minorities [QUOTE=chowder] Anyway if you were to pay a visit to Manchester these days you’d notice a much increased popn. of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and eastern europeans altho’ the Chinese popn. seems to have remained about the same. I live just outside Manchester, in Sale, Cheshire, and as yet we don’t have so many immigrants, doubtless we will given time. [/QUOTE] ‘These days’?! I was back in Rusholme (which was where those figures referred to) only a few weeks ago, and it seemed pretty much the same as I’d left it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-dwellers-what-ethnicities-and-cultures-populate-your-neighborhood/368822/22 "2006-08-15T19:59:19Z")
(Oh, and thank you for being someone to actually bother thinking about my location field 🙂 , and Ipswich is only slightly larger, with a population of 139k) ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-dwellers-what-ethnicities-and-cultures-populate-your-neighborhood/368822/23 "2006-08-15T20:29:21Z")
I’m just outside Toronto, ON, by all accounts still a city dweller since this stopped being the 'burbs several decades ago. My particular area is largely Indian/Pakistani, with a lesser contingent of blacks and still fewer asians. Us cake-eaters I think are a minority in this immediate vicinity. Now, most of my observations are based purely on my own set of apartment complexes (4 buildings) plus what I see around the mall we’re located immediately behind, so demographics may change 50 feet outside of that perimeter, which mostly consists of detatched and semi-detatched housing, especially north along the main road I live behind, which features an oddly affluent segment about a mile long. (I say “oddly” because they’re large-ish, very nicely appointed houses along one of the major thoroughfares in this city, which is an odd combination of posh aloofness and downtown-core urbanite) ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-dwellers-what-ethnicities-and-cultures-populate-your-neighborhood/368822/24 "2006-08-15T22:10:17Z")
When I was growing up, my suburban neighborhood was pretty nearly 100% white. It started changing in the early '80s, and now the garden apartments are nearly all Hispanic with a scattering of other immigrants, and the single-family houses are now owned by Koreans, Indians, one house flies a Nepalese flag, an Iranian family lives across the street, and a steadily-dwindling number of whites. The white enrollment in the public schools has dropped below 50%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-dwellers-what-ethnicities-and-cultures-populate-your-neighborhood/368822.md?page=1)