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How is it any different from cities and neighborhoods that have been ruined by Section 8 and low income families moving into what was previously nice and well-established? Put on the big boy/big girl pants and get over it.
What everyone is talking about here is the lack of a solid middle class post suburbanization. What's left of the middle class is mostly in suburbia, and so few city neighborhoods have a good mix of incomes. Prices skyrocket because there aren't a lot of good, safe urban areas, so as cities regain population, it comes with higher prices due to reinvestment.
I understand why yuppification (is that a word) sucks, because I recently took a trip to DC and spent some time in Dupont Circle. However, not all yuppies are the same; some are respectful and just want a good safe place to live; others are rude and self-focused. I'm not sure what the solution is, except to see an increase in denser urban areas and more blue color jobs accessible to more people. It's a terribly polarizing situation.
How is it any different from cities and neighborhoods that have been ruined by Section 8 and low income families moving into what was previously nice and well-established? Put on the big boy/big girl pants and get over it.
Are there any cities who's overall character/vibe/personality, or nightlife atmosphere, etc. have been ruined by an influx of too many yuppies/snobby hipster types?
I've heard this suggested about both New York City and Washington DC.
they seem about as prejudice as their political opposites, so i
don't see the progress of it all, except for their exclusive
group. isn't that how it has always been short of a few decades?
enough time for that day and age to fade into recent memory
or absense thereof?
How is it any different from cities and neighborhoods that have been ruined by Section 8 and low income families moving into what was previously nice and well-established? Put on the big boy/big girl pants and get over it.
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Originally Posted by Henry Hill
That happens? Ahahaha
Yes, it does. Get out and see the world a bit rather than sitting in snarky judgement.
How is it any different from cities and neighborhoods that have been ruined by Section 8 and low income families moving into what was previously nice and well-established? Put on the big boy/big girl pants and get over it.
This is spot on. I would just specify that it's dense concentrations of Section 8 that ruin good neighborhoods. Show me great neighborhoods with Section 8 vs. bad ones that have the same and I'm sure anyone will begin to notice a pattern. In fact, I know of a neighborhood back in Columbus didn't start to receive investments for improvements, public or private, until the dense Section 8 housing was knocked down and voila: the numbers of shootings and stabbings going on in the area dropped overnight: literally. Then comes the city with revitalization dollars and a couple of entrepreneurs opening up bar-restaurants in a place no one would have thought to venture to at night beforehand.
I agree with the laughable use of "yuppie" and "hipster" as though they were interchangeable. There is a huge difference: hipster bars as a rule are great while yuppie bars are emphatically not.
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