Where HBD and SWPLs collide V

The houses in the neighborhood I live in consist mainly of row houses. My section of the neighborhood is roughly 2/3 white and 1/3 black. A few blocks east it’s 100% black and a few blocks west it’s 90+% white.

Within a week after moving to the neighborhood, one can tell immediately from the outside of a house – with almost 100% accuracy – whether the inhabitants of the house are black or white. (The only errors would be for houses that are inhabited by a mixed race couple, of which there are quite a few in the neighborhood. All these couple consist of a black man and a white woman. All their houses look like white person houses). For example, a house might be a black person’s if it has awnings, the garden is overgrown, the sidewalk is falling apart, it has no air conditioning, it has a chain-link fence, or it has no dog. These differences are especially apparent given that the white people are all SWPLs and they love taking care of their houses to the extreme.

Black people just don’t seem to take care of their houses in the way that white people do. I find this especially strange, since the houses in my neighborhood are so expensive. A well-maintained house in my immediate area easily sells for over $700,000. The value of a poorly maintained house can fall to as low as the mid $500,000s. Thus, by not doing basic maintenance and upkeep, one can throw away well over $100,000. It’s not like the blacks don’t have the money – after all, most of them drive around in really expensive cars (thus they’re spending their money on an asset that declines in value while forgoing spending on an asset that would appreciate in value if it was taken care of). Perhaps the car/house differences reflect genetic differences in time preferences.

Obsidian enjoys pointing out that most HBDers don’t live near blacks. I don’t understand this criticism – after all, we all pay for stupid education policies and higher levels of crime. As an HBDer who lives near lots of NAMs/Ice people/minorities, I would suggest that living in close proximity makes the HBDer more confident of HBDs conclusions. The differences are even more apparent when everyone is mashed together. Plus, you get regular reminders of how the worst blacks live. There are the makings of a reasonable critique from Obsidian, but The Asian of Reason gets closer. Living in proximity makes me more careful to speak in statistical terms as much as possible – HBDers should be careful not to paint with too broad a brush.