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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
I was discussing this with my dad a few weeks ago and he said that it was because the east side of the city was generally the side of the city that was designated for industrial purposes. The east side had all the factories and such. In turn, that made the quality of the air very bad and thus reduced property values. Therefore you would/still will find the lower socio-economic classes residing in those neighbourhoods because that is what they could afford.
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Sorta true - not always the east end but usually... why you ask? Well it does have to do with air quality - but in case of point the "bad side" woul normally be the side down wind (very apparent in older cities)... and wind predominately travels west to east in the northern hemisphere. As for why they remain the "bad side" even after the removal of the industrial nature - social stigma and tradition I guess.