If you heard of a nice town/village where black people were moving to, would you join them?

[Sugarintheplum]

I'm just wondering.

I used to live in the US and they had black areas with good schools, attractive houses (like Fox Hills for eg), and we just don't really have that here.

If one emerged, would you be tempted?

Yes I would!!!!

Watch Lovecraft country

Yes I would!

I would!

Surely focussing solely on race, of skin colour is narrow minded. An accountant who is black, a hairdresser who happens to be black, a shopworker, a teacher all who share the same skin colour may not share the same ideas, morals, political or cultural interests.

*MissAmandaLa1kes

Surely focussing solely on race, of skin colour is narrow minded. An accountant who is black, a hairdresser who happens to be black, a shopworker, a teacher all who share the same skin colour may not share the same ideas, morals, political or cultural interests.*

Most of us don't think so, which is why we have this corner of mumsnet.

I really hope your message will be ignored by all subsequent posters, looks to have been already. Thumbs up people.

I normally visit my heritage country yearly. It's just nice to be there and see "myself" represented everywhere. When DCs were younger I took them yearly too and it's given them such a good love and appreciation of their cultural heritage.

I still love England though, just not racism/racists, pointless people that they are. I'd move to a village for 'us' here like a shot

@Sugarintheplum
I really hope your message will be ignored by all subsequent posters, looks to have been already. Thumbs up people.

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I really hope your message will be ignored by all subsequent posters, looks to have been already. Thumbs up people.

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What word would that be? Enclave?

There are a number of places offering African/Caribbean/Diaspora studies in England including around 6 universities. Can none of them be persuaded to relocate somewhere we'd like to holiday or retire? A dedicated college is a good way of developing a welcoming community for a diversity of incomers and visitors in rural/small town areas within a few years and not the hundreds of years it can otherwise take.

@DeeCeeCherry

I normally visit my heritage country yearly. It's just nice to be there and see "myself" represented everywhere. When DCs were younger I took them yearly too and it's given them such a good love and appreciation of their cultural heritage.

I still love England though, just not racism/racists, pointless people that they are. I'd move to a village for 'us' here like a shot

I love England too. I'd really like to live out of the city with green fields around. In a diverse, welcoming community, where no one wants to have a pat of your hair to see what it feels like. Or asks me where am I " really" from. (England)

@SkedaddIe

I have and I did!

There are LOADS of new build estates popping up and they aren't black black but they are very cosmopolitan.

@SkedaddIe where did you move to

@Akyiaakodua Kent

@IamtheAuthority

That ghettoisation was extremely loaded and I knew instantly banana was non-black and insinuating we would someone attract all the bad things, lower house prices and crimes to the community and "change the landscape of the country" simply by being present. I wonder how she would feel knowing she is not welcome and cannot freely navigate large swathes of the country because you are not welcome. Disgusting

I knew straight away aswell. Not sure why they're commenting on a thread asking black people's opinion on what they would do .

Kent has many areas with black residents.
I moved to zone1after getting married and we're looking to move to the home counties. Many black families move in the home counties. Please don't hold back from giving your children a better quality of life.

There are villages and villages though. While I’m white so can’t comment on the OP, I could 100% say you’d feel much more welcome where I live now than where I grew up. Where I grew up wasn’t that rural but was v insular and I suspect a sizeable chunk of the locals were massively racist. I remember there was one black family in a school of around 500. I often think about the children and what their experience must have been like (probably awful as the school was fairly horrid for lots of reasons).

Where I am now is much more rural but more open and diverse partly because it is full of ex-Londoners and people who commute in to London. I think that does make a difference to outlook versus other areas where people don’t leave.

Gah just seemed to revive a zombie thread. Not sure why this one popped up.