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Old 01-31-2008, 03:04 PM
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I'm very sorry you feel this means the other end of the spectrum is somehow in the right, because they're not. They too have taken over neighborhoods and kicked out families who have been there for years.

good point...this goes back to my point...I dont want the cost of living to go up in my hood....therefore I want to keep yuppies out.
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Old 01-31-2008, 03:32 PM
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good point...this goes back to my point...I dont want the cost of living to go up in my hood....therefore I want to keep yuppies out.
I think aragx was saying that gangs and other criminals have forced people out of neighborhoods as well. If aragx wasn't saying that, I am.
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Old 01-31-2008, 03:49 PM
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you forgot one....

#4 Doesnt like yuppies and snoody rich people taking over the hood and kicking out families that have been here for years.....
Yeah, those snoody people are nothing but trouble.

snood /snud/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[snood]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation–noun 1.the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England. 2.a headband for the hair. 3.a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair. 4.the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey. –verb (used with object) 5.to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME: fillet, ribbon; OE snōd]
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Old 01-31-2008, 03:51 PM
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... and I'm saying that too. I know more than one person who was forced out of a neighborhood due to gangs and violence ... I had a good family friend grow up in Roseland, gangs and violence drove him away (he moved to Beverly), I also had a good friend from Riverdale (the south-suburb) growing up, he got sick of the skyrocketing crime and moved too. Rising property values are not the only reason why one can feel 'forced' from their neighborhood.
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Old 01-31-2008, 03:54 PM
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you forgot one....

#4 Doesnt like yuppies and snoody rich people taking over the hood and kicking out families that have been here for years.....
I'm no fan of 'yuppies' either, but yuppies didn't shoot the kid in the back on my street, yuppies didn't stab the guy in my courtyard 15 years ago, yuppies didn't beat my friend with a lead pipe, mug my father, threaten to shoot my brother, and smash in all my car windows, etc. I'll take my chances with them over gangbangers any day.
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Old 01-31-2008, 04:07 PM
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Yeah, those snoody people are nothing but trouble.

snood /snud/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[snood]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation–noun 1.the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England. 2.a headband for the hair. 3.a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair. 4.the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey. –verb (used with object) 5.to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.
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Dude. Stop being so snoody.
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Old 02-06-2008, 10:19 AM
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Is there such as thing as a "Good Cop" and a 'Bad Cop" ?
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Old 02-06-2008, 10:52 AM
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I'm no fan of 'yuppies' either, but yuppies didn't shoot the kid in the back on my street, yuppies didn't stab the guy in my courtyard 15 years ago, yuppies didn't beat my friend with a lead pipe, mug my father, threaten to shoot my brother, and smash in all my car windows, etc. I'll take my chances with them over gangbangers any day.
By Chicago neighborhood standards, you're probably a yuppie. 87vert...whatever is also probably a yuppie if he has access to the internet on a regular basis. When neighborhoods are gentrifying, I've realized that the term "yuppie" means anyone who makes more money than the people doing the complaining. In Pilsen they're complaining about Mexicans who have moved up in the world and are now buying condos with their good jobs and increased education levels. To the class warfare idiots, I say get a clue! Is the horrible institution of the ghetto really worth saving? You're only clinging to it because you don't know anything else.
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Old 02-06-2008, 04:21 PM
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my point is

just like anything else....

there are Good Bangers and Bad Bangers....


I like good Bangers as they scare away high costs of living....

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Old 02-06-2008, 04:25 PM
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There are good gangbangers? Is not that a form of an oxymoron? A bad gangbanger is a moron and a good banger might actually be a bigger moron.
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