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Old 05-18-2019, 10:30 AM
 
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It's looking like I'm going to be a new Avondale resident as of a couple weeks or so from now. Am I a "gentrifier?"
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Old 05-18-2019, 10:58 AM
 
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It's looking like I'm going to be a new Avondale resident as of a couple weeks or so from now. Am I a "gentrifier?"
What is your income and transactional behavior like? But, you are likely a gentrifier, although not a pioneer.
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Old 05-18-2019, 11:05 AM
 
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What is your income and transactional behavior like? But, you are likely a gentrifier, although not a pioneer.
Um, sometimes I splurge and go to Trader Joe's instead of Aldi?
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Old 05-18-2019, 12:03 PM
 
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It's looking like I'm going to be a new Avondale resident as of a couple weeks or so from now. Am I a "gentrifier?"
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Um, sometimes I splurge and go to Trader Joe's instead of Aldi?
Technically you are. Although it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

We're all just trying to survive.
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Old 05-18-2019, 06:28 PM
 
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It's looking like I'm going to be a new Avondale resident as of a couple weeks or so from now. Am I a "gentrifier?"
I am too, it's okay!
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Old 05-19-2019, 04:48 AM
 
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I am too, it's okay!
Not really fine in my opinion anymore. Basically all gentrified neighborhoods in Chicago have been in Latino neighborhoods... I feel terrible for them, that is why, I chose to buy property and live in East Garfield Park.
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Old 05-19-2019, 07:45 AM
 
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Avondale never really was an ethnic enclave of any sort. It was always diverse, with the common denominator being they're working class folks either working in factories or the clay pits of Bricktown, or riding rail to work in the city center. That's what I'll be doing there, living in an old building on an old street with very little if any 21st century construction.
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Old 05-19-2019, 08:30 AM
 
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I've noticed white millennials moving into neighborhoods like Albany Park and Avondale to find inexpensive housing and then become the loudest voice against gentrification and loss of diversity. They should move out then, because they are the reason for displacement and increasing housing costs. It's the most example of supply and demand.
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Old 05-19-2019, 12:47 PM
 
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I did not know poorer white people moving for cheaper rent is gentrification?
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Old 05-19-2019, 03:26 PM
 
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Especially when that neighborhood was already 82 percent white with a median household income in the low 30s.

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I did not know poorer white people moving for cheaper rent is gentrification?
Today I went big. Didn't order the two Hot 'n Spicy McChickens for $3. Went with the Big Mac and Quarter Pounder with Cheese for $5.

There goes the neighborhood.
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