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Pittsburgh. You are already seeing it with the mass shooting in Wilkinsburg. Sad because the city wasn't this way about 6 years ago until the gentrification/revitalization hit and the city became trendy. There is such a large gap between rich and poor and status chasing in a town that used to be blue collar.
What we are seeing here and what you will see in the future is a population shift from the cities to the outer ring burbs or exurbs. People who refused to have more than a 15 min commute are fine with 45min to an hour or more.
Pittsburgh. You are already seeing it with the mass shooting in Wilkinsburg. Sad because the city wasn't this way about 6 years ago until the gentrification/revitalization hit and the city became trendy. There is such a large gap between rich and poor and status chasing in a town that used to be blue collar.
What we are seeing here and what you will see in the future is a population shift from the cities to the outer ring burbs or exurbs. People who refused to have more than a 15 min commute are fine with 45min to an hour or more.
Way off base. Wilkinsburg isn't Pittsburgh. City of Pittsburgh is getting younger and wealthier, not the other way around. and what does a shooting in Wilkinsburg have to do with gentrification in Pittsburgh?
Orlando is a good example of a city that could be facing social and economic issues in the next 10-20 years. While it's growing rapidly it's not doing so in a sustainable manner with an overwhelmingly high percentage of low wage jobs driving the economic growth, a well-documented brain drain, a cost of living generally too high for it's workforce (especially renters), a low proportion of owner occupied dwellings and an increasingly minority majority population which historically does not bode well for social or economic factors.
what does a shooting in Wilkinsburg have to do with gentrification in Pittsburgh?
I would imagine it is quite possible that a shooting in Wilkinsburg is a result of gentrification in Pittsburgh. Poor people get pushed out of a center city, lose their neighborhood support system. Members of rival gangs establishing new turf, etc.
I would imagine it is quite possible that a shooting in Wilkinsburg is a result of gentrification in Pittsburgh. Poor people get pushed out of a center city, lose their neighborhood support system. Members of rival gangs establishing new turf, etc.
if you knew anything about the area, you'd realize how absurd that is. Wilkinsburg has been a ghetto for decades - long before Pittsburgh began gentrifying.
I thought Pittsburgh was supposed to be hipster heaven.
A few neighborhoods like Bloomfield and Lawrenceville have that reputation. Most of the east end of the city has seen gentrification, but people act as if there is no affordable housing. It's not at all true, Pittsburgh still has probably more affordable housing than most other cities.
Nope, but any city that can't even provide basic services like controlling is not worth visiting. I looked up the statistics and it had 92 homicides for 210,000 people last year. Lincoln, Nebraska that is a similar populated city had 1 homicide. Other cities of similar size like Salt Lake City Boise and Sioux Falls have less then 10 homicides per year.
And they were 65 the year before, so again what's your point? If you haven't kept up with what's happening in Birmingham within the last five, years how can you give such a thorough claim? the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, and the C-USA Basketball Tournament are both taking place in Birmingham this weekend; and not to mention Kevin Hart was here this week to record his TV special for Comedy Central. Birmingham, and the other cities on that list are fine; how can anyone take your claims seriously if you haven't done any research?
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