When once-nice city neighborhoods decayed and the people were forced to leave their homes, nobody (govt, politicians) cared and did anything. Indeed, those people themselves got blamed for "fleeing" even though their wants -- decent schools, safe streets, no vandalism -- were perfectly acceptable and met elsewhere.
If anyone challenged the anti-social behavior of the new people moving into the neighborhoods and causing trouble, they were accused of being a snob or worse (esp if there were ethnic differences).
Yet when the opposite happens -- when affluent people move back into the city and fix up a decayed neighborhood -- rebuilding rotted buildings, chasing drug dealers away, opening new stoers in empty shells -- everyone worries about the people who previously lived there (the ones who failed to keep up the neighborhood). Seems to me the ones already there are benefiting -- at no cost to them -- of a nicer living area.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, one thing I really appreciate about living here in Independence is that this is a very integrated community, which is how I would want it. We are not a rich community (although there is a 'rich part of town' [north of Taylor Road near the country club]) and there are areas which tend to have more minority residents than others, but we all seem to get along okay. PAT]