Bridgeport Residents Not Happy With Hipsters/Artists (Chicago: middle-class, rentals)

[Plzeň]

Everything about this has "manufactured controversy for the sake of publicity" written all over it. It reminds me of the "White hipsters get out of Pilsen" posters that were put up by white hipsters in Pilsen a year or so ago.

I know people of various races, ages, social classes (though I wouldn't call any of them them "wealthy"; this ain't Lincoln Park or Gold Coast) and education levels living in Bridgeport. They're generally too busy getting together for backyard parties and the like to bother writing lame manifestos against each other.

[scarletneon]

Not sure how speculating that hipsters may be moving down halsted from Pilsen to Bridgeport because they can't afford Pilsen anymore is off topic, but ok.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by rparz

Since most people like to live near work, who does that leave?

In Bridgeport I know people who work for the railroads, the gas company, the city and Edison and people who are building tradesmen, maintainence workers and stationary engineers, drivers, bakers, cooks, hairdessers, bartenders, cops and firemen.

[mjtinmemphis]

Chicago is a great city. I love my adopted home town. What is up with the narrow not on my block mentality. People are people. Rich, poor, Black, Gay and everything else in between. My advise is to get over yourself people are going to move where they want to and legally speaking you cant stop them.

[Chicago76]

Originally Posted by rparz

That's the thing, blue collar jobs aren't found in abundance in the city anymore
gone are the days of plentiful factories in the city. If they haven't moved to Mexico or China they hightailed it to the burbs where land and taxes are cheap. Since most people like to live near work, who does that leave?

That and the fact that city schools have deteriorated in the last 30 years. A younger blue collar family isn't going to have as much disposable income for private ed if they think it's necessary...so you will see relatively fewer young blue collar types even if the jobs were there.

Incoming residents to replace the older blue collar types are going to be one of two types:

-younger childless (with generally fewer yuppies--this is Bridgeport)
-working (and not working) poor

It's not a totally black or white issue, but the deck is kind of stacked.

[lenniel]

Total publicity stunt.
While I normally would never read anything about Bport, I read this. Mission accomplished.

[Savoir Faire]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Bridgeport Residents Not Happy With Hipsters/Artists .

All 5 of them??

[jwaiter]

I don't "get" anti-gentrification, and it did seem a bit awkward to me when Lumpen made this "conscious" decision to move to BP and try and force it into their idea of the "community of the future."

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis

My advise is to get over yourself people

You're the one preaching, maybe you should "get over yourself". What are you gonna say next, "it is what it is"?

[jonnynonos]

"Legally speaking you can't stop them."

Ah... you are truly unfamiliar with Bridgeport!

I think I'm going to hang out there during Version Fest and keep directing hipsters to use the bathroom at the Old Neighborhood Italian American Club. "Don't worry about. They're really nice. If they don't answer right away just keep knocking."