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No can’t be Ipswich with so few people :smack:
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'Twas the figures for Suffolk Coastal, actually…Ipswich has 6% ethnic minorities
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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.
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‘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! 
(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)
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)
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%.