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Originally Posted by rickroll
It's pretty segregated though, there's one infamous area where the city built these structures that effectively worked as a wall to prevent easy access between the projects and the neighborhood next door
100% this. STL is extremely segregated. The Mike Brown situation a few years back didn't help on the "unity" front and the McCloskeys pulling guns on protestor wasn't a boon either.
You'll be fine in STL as long as you stay in your lil area. Blacks over here, Indians over here, Polish over there, etc.
I was literally told I didn't win the bid on a house in a suburb west of STL because the sellers Googled me and wanted to keep the neighborhood "pure".
The sellers real estate agent was soon after fired. Lawyers were contacted and all sorts of calamity ensued. Me not willing to pay $300/hr for a lawyer for a case that I probably wouldn't win(lack of non hearsay evidence) for a house in a neighborhood I no longer wanted to live in is the only thing that kept the case from proceeding.
Not wanting my daughter to grow up in such a climate(if at all avoidable) was the main impetus for the move honestly.