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To answer your question, humans are creatures of habit. We don't like change. Even reading over your moves is making me slightly dizzy.
Before Parkchester you lived in Ridgewood
Before Ridgewood you lived in Bay Ridge
Before Bay Ridge you lived in Manhattan
All gentrification's fault
Nobody wants to move every few years. At least let it be their decision.
Except that people here (and pretty much most places) have a very elementary understanding of gentrification. They don't really delve into the nuances of it, and instead, dump on, and blame the wrong people for it.
Why not call a deuce a deuce and point the blame where it belongs. Predatory real estate capitalists in collusion with politicans. People pay attention to the wrong things and blame the result rather than the cause on the issue.
Most people are just living somewhere they can feel a sense of home and hearth, but in NYC how much they can spend plays one of the largest factors.
My biggest problem with genitrification, besides the obvious rent increases, is that it brings in way too much crappy retail that most people just don't want. A bunch of vanity stores and boutiques, overpriced eateries, overpriced gourmet grocery stores, liquor stores turned into high end wine and spirit shops, and the cost of cigarettes go from 12 bux to 16. I no longer smoke cigarettes, I quite years ago, but I only did so because I can't afford to move and relocate and had nothing to do with health. I live in an overpriced neighborhood where I have to travel blocks and blocks to find anything that remotely caters to my low-end needs. There's nothing wrong with low-end, except that people make it seem so like it's trashy and gutter. F that. Your 12 dollar craft beers are trashy and gutter and pretentiously stupid and ugly as your inbred looking gentifying face.
Predatory real estate capitalists in collusion with politicans. People pay attention to the wrong things and blame the result rather than the cause on the issue.
It takes two to tango, can't just blame them...
People want to capitalize on the newfound riches as well. That's why sometimes you get people here talking about the appreciation on their house, and I'm like who cares. You buy a home, not a house. Nobody stays in their house for over 10 years anymore because they just want to keep flipping. So in order to properly "point the finger," hold your right arm out, extend your index finger, and proceed to do a twirl, so that nobody in the room is missed...
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My biggest problem with genitrification, besides the obvious rent increases, is that it brings in way too much crappy retail that most people just don't want. A bunch of vanity stores and boutiques, overpriced eateries, overpriced gourmet grocery stores, liquor stores turned into high end wine and spirit shops, and the cost of cigarettes go from 12 bux to 16. I no longer smoke cigarettes, I quite years ago, but I only did so because I can't afford to move and relocate and had nothing to do with health. I live in an overpriced neighborhood where I have to travel blocks and blocks to find anything that remotely caters to my low-end needs. There's nothing wrong with low-end, except that people make it seem so like it's trashy and gutter. F that. Your 12 dollar craft beers are trashy and gutter and pretentiously stupid and ugly as your inbred looking gentifying face.
Dude you started early today. I'm always down for a laugh and you did not disappoint.
What I want to preserve is the multiculturalism that makes NYC NYC. If a gastro pub could survive with a taco truck parked outside or a Colombian chicken place on the same block, I wouldn't have a problem. The problem is that you can have 10 Colombian chicken joints today and end up with zero tomorrow. Because the gastro pub crowd don't like the chicken crowd.
The next thing is chains: chain fast food, banks on every corner or all four corners, and empty storefronts where there used to be, let's say, a Colombian chicken joint. There are almost no more fabric stores or bookstores and little shops that I used to travel to for interesting shopping like that little hole in the wall on 7th Ave that has nothing but rubber stamps - they make the city a varied and interesting place but there is no room for them in a gentrified city. They're important for the character of a place, but there's no way they can pay the same kind of rent Gristede's can, or McDonald's, or Chase Bank, and they don't provide the tax break of an empty spot. So rather than making provision for variety, they are wiped off the cityscape and each of those losses changes NYC for the blander.
Roseba: My aunt went to Julia Richman when it was the last stop before reform school, back in the 50s. She dropped out.
But non gentrified areas are often filled with chain fast food restaurants.
My biggest problem with genitrification, besides the obvious rent increases, is that it brings in way too much crappy retail that most people just don't want. A bunch of vanity stores and boutiques, overpriced eateries, overpriced gourmet grocery stores, liquor stores turned into high end wine and spirit shops, and the cost of cigarettes go from 12 bux to 16. I no longer smoke cigarettes, I quite years ago, but I only did so because I can't afford to move and relocate and had nothing to do with health. I live in an overpriced neighborhood where I have to travel blocks and blocks to find anything that remotely caters to my low-end needs. There's nothing wrong with low-end, except that people make it seem so like it's trashy and gutter. F that. Your 12 dollar craft beers are trashy and gutter and pretentiously stupid and ugly as your inbred looking gentifying face.
The problem with the Slope, as I saw it, was there were plenty of stores, but nothing worth buying. I forgot to buy socks before a big vacation and had no where to go to buy them. That's a problem
People want to capitalize on the newfound riches as well. That's why sometimes you get people here talking about the appreciation on their house, and I'm like who cares. You buy a home, not a house. Nobody stays in their house for over 10 years anymore because they just want to keep flipping. So in order to properly "point the finger," hold your right arm out, extend your index finger, and proceed to do a twirl, so that nobody in the room is missed...
I know plenty of people who have held their homes for quite a bit longer. My father has had his for 30 years. I have friends even longer. I don't think there are as many flippers as you portray. NOw do people move up, as they have more money... that's a different thing. But I would not characterize that as flipping.
But non gentrified areas are often filled with chain fast food restaurants.
NYC, with its rich immigrant culture, and its entepreunership... there should no reason we should ever need fast food chain restaraunts. I mean what is NY other than Pizza or bagels... both of which ARE quick eating, quick serve food. That, and Knishes, hotdogs, and falafel. (not my fav but to each his own.)
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The problem with the Slope, as I saw it, was there were plenty of stores, but nothing worth buying. I forgot to buy socks before a big vacation and had no where to go to buy them. That's a problem
Exactly! Sometimes you need a pair of cheap socks or underwear, STAT! But when you walk outside in these highly sainted gentrified areas where people claim everything is within walking distance you realize... um, no... nothing is in within walking distance except 60 dollar cans of olive oil and 200 dollar onesies for infants and toddlers with "Brooklyn Princess" printed on them :/ (not even JOKING about the last one!)
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The problem with the Slope, as I saw it, was there were plenty of stores, but nothing worth buying. I forgot to buy socks before a big vacation and had no where to go to buy them. That's a problem
Exactly! Sometimes you need a pair of cheap socks or underwear, STAT! But when you walk outside in these highly sainted gentrified areas where people claim everything is within walking distance you realize... um, no... nothing is in within walking distance except 60 dollar cans of olive oil and 200 dollar onesies for infants and toddlers with "Brooklyn Princess" printed on them :/ (not even JOKING about the last one!)
Park Slope has been as you described since before I was born. So it doesn't fit well with the gentrification thread well in this instance.
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