I have a pretty different class background from most LW posters (think “banlieue”)
For others who weren’t familiar with the connotations of this word:
In France, a banlieue (French: [bɑ̃ljø]) is a suburb of a large city. [...] However, since the 1970s, banlieues increasingly means, in French of France, low-income housing projects (HLMs) in which mainly foreign immigrants and French of foreign descent reside, in what are often called poverty traps.
(If you just google it, the result that comes up says “suburb”, so I thought it was worth calling out that an American-style wealthy or middle class suburb is not the right connotation.)
For others who weren’t familiar with the connotations of this word:
(If you just google it, the result that comes up says “suburb”, so I thought it was worth calling out that an American-style wealthy or middle class suburb is not the right connotation.)