We're number 1! We're number 1!
Pity it's not something in which we'd actually like to be Number 1.
I know what Willie Hudgies means, though. There are some neighborhoods that I wouldn't go near on a bet. Bridgeview, for one. Wrigley Field. (No, not Wrigleyville -- the neighborhood around the field seems to be mostly OK. I mean you couldn't pay me to go to a Cubs game.)
The problem is, if all you do is examine residence patterns, you may miss the element of choice. I could, for example, live in Ravenswood or Hyde Park or another part of the city, but weirdly, I like where I live. Sort of. Except on July 4 and New Year's Eve. (What IS it with shooting into the air? Haven't people ever heard of gravity?) Then again, this country having the history it does, it's understandable for researchers to assume that choice is essentially an irrelevant factor.
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