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I don't think a "New Brooklyn" is what Cleveland should really be striving for. Dilute local culture to an unrecognizable level so hipsters and yups can go in and homogenize everything? Pass.
If you're referring to Williamsburg, Brooklyn I won't call it exactly homogeneous. Not too places give off quite the same hipster feel, or at least as extreme.
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If you have a chance, go to Brooklyn sometime. I don't know, obviously many people think it's amazing, but I for one find it quite insufferable (at least in the northern half).
Most of the northern half of Brooklyn isn't Williamsburg or hipster. Parts of north Brooklyn have the highest violent crime rates in the city.
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NYC and SF most definitely.
Don't think San Francisco should be on the top of the list, because large parts were already well off, so not as much gentrification. New York City, as I mentioned before, is too big overall, gentrification has only affected sections. By overall income and racial %'s, Washington DC has changed much more than any other large city.
Blacks leaving LA isn't a sign of gentrification. It's a sign of a horrible economy.
Funny, it doesn't feel like a horrible economy.
I suppose if you don't have any higher education and are looking for unskilled labor type jobs then its a different story. But if you have an education and especially if you are in IT or software development there is no end to the opportunities here - especially if you are an independent consultant. I feel like career blew up when I moved to LA and the only thing limiting me from making even more is my willingness to put more time in and take on more contracts.
I know this isn't everyone's story but just saying- LA is pretty big in tech now and the city has been very good to people in that field.
If you believe this, and how you see the world, Seattle wins/loses.
Definitely depends on the person you ask. I live in a DINK (dual income no children) household. We're paying top dollar for a small studio, but we absolutely love it.
On the other hand, my friends are married with children. Both work white collar jobs. They are looking to move soon with a mortgage budget of around 400K and are having a very hard time finding anything reasonable in the city for that price. They are looking for a 3-B home ideally within city limits, but their strained by how expensive housing is. The expensiveness of Seattle is quite shocking for them.
The black population is being replaced by low income Latino families though. That's not exactly gentrification. If they were high income, different story.
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I think all of these cities will see significant, city altering, gentrification in the near future except for San Francisco and LA. No to SF because it is currently nearly completely gentrified though there is talk of a new wave of even richer gentrifiers pushing out the last wave of gentrifiers. ironic. While LA will have gentrification, it won't change the city's culture in the same way that the other cities would experience. It's culture has always been dominated by the upper classes. At least that's my perception from afar.
I know what you are saying but they are building apts over parking lots and replacing abandoned warehouses. It is not like they are replacing any population that lived in DTLA before cause nobody lived there in the first place. I'm actually glad it is this way because instead of gentrifying actual neighborhoods they are just adding to a former desolate neighborhood. Could you imagine if DTLA was built out and all the rich people bought places in Boyle Heights or Lincoln Heights instead? At least we are providing rich people housing without taking away the supply of existing housing.
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I think all of these cities will see significant, city altering, gentrification in the near future except for San Francisco and LA. No to SF because it is currently nearly completely gentrified though there is talk of a new wave of even richer gentrifiers pushing out the last wave of gentrifiers. ironic. While LA will have gentrification, it won't change the city's culture in the same way that the other cities would experience. It's culture has always been dominated by the upper classes. At least that's my perception from afar.
Yeah....If you live on the Westside. Most of the "cool" stuff that is happening in LA is on the Eastside.
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