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pay a visit sometime to New Haven, Connecticut. I once interviewed there for a faculty job. We entered the building, part of the med school, through a door with a keypad and then signed in with a security guard. The junior faculty who had school children assured me that everyone on Yale faculty sends their kids to private schools, which were 'wonderful'. And housing was reasonable in safe areas of town. It wasn't just a town-gown problem, it was very much a black-white problem. I was offered the job; decided to go elsewhere.