What American Community Type Do YOu Live In?

Which is "Real America" are you in?


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12.) Community Types


1.) Boom Towns :hammer:
Fast growing communities with rapidly diversifying populations
(Hmmm you guys built too many houses)


2.) Immigration Nation :w00t:
Communities with large Latino populations and lower-than-average incomes, typically clustered in the South and Southwest (How often does the sheriff arive?)

3.) Monied 'Burbs :c5gold:
Wealthier, highly educated communities with a median household income of $15,000 above the national county average Has the shaky economy really create employment oppurtunities in Uzbekistan?)



4.) Campus and Careers :coffee:
Cities and towns with young, educated populations; more secular and Democratic than other American communities (Lighting Cafes by the glow of laptops. Is it really More effcient than lightbulbs?)




5.) Industrial Metropolis:hammers:
Densely populated, highly diverse urban centers; incomes trend higher than the national average and voters lean Democratic (Don't you ever get claustrophobic?)




6.) Mormon Outposts :whew:
Home to a large share of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and slightly higher median household incomes (Do you feel safe enough now from persecuton to come back out of the desert?)



7.) Emptying Nests :old:
Home to many retirees and aging baby boomer populations; less diverse than the nation at large (Less diversity an good thing?)



8.) Military Bastions :salute:
Areas with high employment in the military or related to the presence of the military and large veteran populations; likely Republican voters though Democratic President Obama gained ground (Which is better economically, wartime or peacetime?)




9.) Service Worker Centers :rudolf:
Midsize and small towns with economies fueled by hotels, stores and restaurants and lower-than-average median household income by county (How bad is it to not be tipped?)





10.) Evangelical Epicenters :jesus:
Communities with a high proportion of evangelical Christians, found mostly in small towns and suburbs; slightly older than the U.S. average; loyal Republican voters (Yet I heard your religious theater is badly acted, do you have plans to improve it?)






11.) Minority Central :pat:
Home to large pockets of black residents but a below average percentage of Hispanics and Asians (I heard that some places have seperate black and white bars and schools and stuff. Does it work out?)



12.) Tractor Country :cowboy:
Mostly rural and remote smaller towns with older populations and large agricultural sectors (How many tractors do you own?)



See our nation is actually patchwork!
http://www.patchworknation.org/
 
Live in the monied 'burbs (average housing prices north of $1m), commute and work in academia.
 
I do not live in an american community
 
Oops - I misclicked. I voted Immigration Nation, but should have clicked Industrial Metropolis.

However, I really don't think New York City could be realistically described as an industrial metropolis. Metropolis, yes, but industrial?? It's all Finance, Entertainment, and Service. Not much Making going on here....
 
Well according to "Patch Work Nation if the city was a former industrial metro it counts.
 
I say Tractor Country, they say Service Worker Centers. Which should I vote?
 
According to the site, Monied 'Burbs. I cannot even begin to describe the inaccuracy of that classification.
 
I live in New York City. Industrial Metropolis.
 
This is about the closest to my situation, except I'm not really in the suburbs, I'm within walking distance of the research hospital where I work.

We're basically identical then - I use "commute" loosely. I live about a mile from the university and walk. Good exercise!
 
NYHunter said:
I live in New York City. Industrial Metropolis.
I live in Queens, specifically Astoria/LIC

So if we break it down by neighborhood I live in a blend of Moneyed Suburb / Industrial Metropolis / Service Worker Central.

My guess it that it's about 35/20/40/other

Care to evaluate your neighborhood? ;)
 
I'd consider my town the "monied burbs", but since I live in Cook County, I get counted along with Chicago so I guess I'm also the "Industrial Metropolis".
 
If we want to lump ALL of Chicago into one type (which seems silly), I guess I live in an industrial metropolis. My actual neighborhood (which is bigger than most suburbs) is more of an immigrant nation though. When I move in a few months, there is a good chance I end up in an even more immigranty neighborhood.

Socially, more than half of my friends and close associates are mormon though...so I might have a bit of an LDS outpost flair in there too.
 
I like how the counties with majority Native American population are described as,

Home to large pockets of black residents but a below average percentage of Hispanics and Asians
 
The website puts me in a Boom Town, but I'd consider it "Monied Burbs". I voted Boom Town in the poll though. It is a fast growing area I guess.
 
My city is most definitely not a boom town, it's actually smaller in 2010 compared to 2000 by a smidge, population hasn't changed much in the last 20 years, it has always been an extremely diverse city
 
I voted Campus and Careers becuase it is the dominate part of my county (Centre County, Pennsylvania) and because is plays a imporant part of my economic activites. However I technically live in a Emptying nest/tractor country. :old::cowboy: Actually more like Emptying nest/horse and buggy country. :old::deadhorse:
 
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