Review of Plainfield, New Jersey


White flight and terrible schools
Star Rating - 9/3/2006
I've been living in Plainfield for three months. The town is outside the white areas. The whites here have mostly moved out, leaving it primarily black lower middle class for the homes and hispanic for the rentals. The schools are terrible-I hear the worst in NJ. The cost of living is on the high side. I want to move and am looking for my next place to live. It seems a matter of time before this place ends up burned out like Detroit, MI.
Now Med AL | Rocky Mount, NC
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A lot of my neighbors would be surprised to read this. This town has plenty of problems but White flight does not seem to be one. My Black neighbors sold their house across the street in 2006 to a White couple who love the town. It does take a special person to live in an ethnically and economically diverse town, but many like my wife and I do.
Ronald | Plainfield, NJ | Report Abuse
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