Southlake = Pleasantville Options

[kcroxyoursox]

I know a lot of you are from the DFW area, so I figured this might generate some interest. Basically, Southlake is the modern-day Pleasantville, where our kids are smarter AND better looking. Read on.

http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/Audiences/dir...642EC371FE6E70B

[Inferia]

No, society doesn't force people to do anything, but it does restricts people from doing certain things. Lots of communities are segregated based on income level, and many minorities are poor so they live in the poorer regions of the communities. It's not exactly so called forced, but it's not like the poor people can just say, I want to live with the rich people because I like it there better. I'm not saying that we should make people live somewhere, but a lot of these things can be avoided with better city planning. If you build all the big houses in one region, then chances are, you're gonna get a bunch of rich people cuz chances are poor people can't afford it. If you intersperse more affordable housing within the large houses, then poor people (and I'm not talking about minorities here, but poor people) can move into those neighborhoods. Capitalism doesn't mean you have the same opportunity of being rich or poor. It means anyone can be poor or rich, but a rich kid has much, much more opportunity of staying rich than a poor kid becoming rich. I don't know. I don't feel like arguing this, I just feel like we live in a society, not exactly as individuals. Our friends and environment has a strong effect on the type of person we turn out to be.

And I never called you a racist. Narrow minded maybe. =P