If you are moving into a monoculture I foresee a clash if you are unwilling to assimilate; ironic that Hispanics often get accused of this and unlikely to happen if the hood were truly ethnically diverse.
Mexican homeowners in the U.S. possess a work ethic that reminds me of post WWII GIs, bettering life by climbing the bootstrap. I wouldn’t worry about crime in such a neighborhood. Not much of the entitlement mentality.
Your wish for a quiet life might be hopeless though. My racist perception is that commotion= Hispanics as masa= tamales.
Yesterday one of my also-Spaniard coworkers mentioned that Glasgow doesn’t look very ethnically diverse. She said, literally “oh but there’s almost no foreigners here!”
Uhm… you mean like in that party we were in last week, where out of two dozen people or so the hostess and two guests were from Finland, the host Irish Glasgewian, there were seven Spaniards from three different subethnicities, a Venezuelan, a Chilean-German born in Switzerland, a Russian, a Danish and anybody else I missed? OK, yeah, we were all either “white” or “mestizo” but eeeeh, still not what I’d call a meeting of the Daughters of Robert the Bruce 
(no Daughters of the American Revolution over here 
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Or like the street we drive along twice a day, with a Mexican-Spanish-American deli (the salesfolk are all blonde and blue eyed, too blonde to be locals, I suspect eastern European); Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Oriental, Japanese, Italian, Greek and Indian restaurants in a stretch of maybe one mile? That street? You’ve never seen someone who looks like “not from around here” there, or you just haven’t noticed them? :smack:
My experiences living in mixed areas have always been positive; when I was in Miami (South Miami and later the edge of Little Haiti) some of my neighbors asked whether I “wasn’t afraid” of their black faces - one storekeeper asked whether I was OK with all the Hispanics and we had a laugh together when I answered in Spanish 
People liked it that I’d looked at things like that the area around my house was clean and well-kept and the location was convenient, rather than worry about the area’s reputation or the color of my neighbors.
That said, there’s places where I wouldn’t want to live based on the neighbors. Noisy neighbors are bad no matter what color they come in!
I grew up in a bi-cultural town - British Isles descendants and Ukrainians. There were a few families of other visible ethnicity, but not many; so few, in fact, that the kids that were different had real trouble sorting themselves out.
Now, I live here and I love it. I’m proud of the fact that for the last few World Cups, we’ve had a local community for each country represented. I adore the mix of languages and cultures on the subway.
On our street, we have a large mix of Korean, Chinese, Straight, Gay, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, South Asian.
I have to say to those concerned about their privacy - I don’t need an alarm system because I have Portuguese neighbours. Anecdote - The kids and I went away for the weekend, and my wife had the house to herself. She went out for supper, saw a show and came back home around midnight, to discover that she had locked herself out of the house. She went for a basement window that we wanted to replace anyway, and tried to smash it with a rock. On the third try (tougher that it looks, apparently.) she broke the window. About ten seconds later, our neighbour to the south says “What’s going on?” while his wife has the cordless phone in her hands. Our neighbours to the north, Pierre and Lorne, are also out on their front porch, saying “who’s there?” My wife explains what’s going on, and gets sorted out. Senhor Almeida helps her put a board over the broken window, everyone goes to bed.
So, yeah, that’s more intrusive than many people would like; for me, it’s another part of living in the community that I love.
Quick piece of trivia for you, Nava:
Foreign visitors to Sydney are often amazed at how white it isn’t. This town is hugely East Asian and Mediterranean at first glance, and then you notice all the Indians, Islanders and others. On the radio last night, I heard that the third biggest migrant group living here is the Scots. Whoodathunkit?
Thanks all.
Just gonna let this percolate on the back burner for a while.
Maybe ramp up the few minor improvements we intended to do to our home before selling.
In this market, we shouldn’t need to make too quick of a decision.
I compared the price for other homes in the immediate area, and - even tho we could afford the asking price - it seems as tho they are asking a considereable premium for the provenance/condition.
A sizeable price deduction might well sway our opinion.
Meanwhile, plenty of opportunities to drive/bike to the neighborhood, park and walk around, maybe walk the dog and chat up some neighbors, eat and shop at a couple of the local shops, maybe even take the train out there in the evening to see who gets on/off the train.
And if someone else snaps it up, perhaps it was not meant to be.