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Virginia Postrel, in The Atlantic Monthly | Notable & Quotable | WSJ
Topic: Society 8:16 pm EST, Nov 18, 2007

Dallas and Los Angeles represent two distinct models for successful American cities, which both reflect and reinforce different cultural and political attitudes. One model fosters a family-oriented, middle-class lifestyle -- the proverbial home-centered "balanced life." The other rewards highly productive, work-driven people with a yen for stimulating public activities, for arts venues, world-class universities, luxury shopping, restaurants that aren't kid-friendly.

One makes room for a wide range of incomes, offering most working people a comfortable life. The other, over time, becomes an enclave for the rich.

Since day-to-day experience shapes people's sense of what is typical and normal, these differences in turn lead to contrasting perceptions of economic and social reality. It's easy to believe the middle class is vanishing when you live in Los Angeles, much harder in Dallas.

Virginia Postrel, in The Atlantic Monthly | Notable & Quotable | WSJ



 
 
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