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Yuppies only move into neighborhoods well after the "damage" has been done. In fact they're the last to show up; usually only after a neighborhood has been scrubbed, renovated, and made financially hostile to those pesky brown people.
But really it's the artists, gays, hipsters and cool kids that set the wheels in motion.
Yuppies are okay except for the fact that are disgustingly trendy, hypocritically artsy, boldy arrogant and irrelevant, and usually experts about everything under the sun except for realism.
Yuppies usually gravitate to areas where they feel they will be appreciated and respected----the area is called nowheresville.
dear yuppie
you are making lots of spelling errors and repetition--
very unusual for somebody with your stated credentials.
but to answer your question they are hated for the same reason that the avalanche of legal/illegal french immigrants hate the french, the french got good food nice cars and pretty women the the arabs and africans dont.
I'd rather have a money breed monster than a poverty breed monster.
Even though money breed monsters are the reason why the country's economy is in the gutter...money breed monsters can do way more damage than poverty breed monsters EVER could.
NYC (or any other city) without yuppies = Detroit.
If you want to live in a disgusting, depressive cesspool then move to Detroit. Yuppies are what make this city comfortable. Yuppies are the ones responsible for paying for city services (top 1-5% pay 80% of taxes...which include subsidizing parasitic government assistance/living arrangement in the projects). Yuppies are what saved New York City.
I'm sure there is "vibrancy" (keyword: crime, trash, poverty, disease) in East New York or Camden.
Even though money breed monsters are the reason why the country's economy is in the gutter...money breed monsters can do way more damage than poverty breed monsters EVER could.
I disagree. I think poverty breeds worse monsters. There are more poor people in the US than wealthy people. There are also way more "hoods" or ghettos in the US than ritzy, uppity wealthy neighborhoods. Wealthy people only make up 1% of the population in the US. Being poor is a CULTURE in its own right. A negative culture at that thats contagious.
A couple of years ago I was "yuppie-like" but I found the lifestyle too pressure packed and have chosen a new path.
...which I hope includes running for office, queensgrl. I'm completely serious. You are impressing the heck out of me with your posts here.
So jumping into this --
What do people hate about yuppies -- the fortress mentality, the same thing people hate about other tight-knit communities/families/clans, the 'us-vs.-them' thing. People want to feel that their presence in a community matters to others, that they can contribute something and that they are welcome. That's really all, right? I don't care what ethnicity, gender preference, religion, age, or profession you are, you should be willing to contribute to and ENHANCE your community, not build up walls of affluence, culture, language, or ethnic identity. Right, or?
I just read all this on my return to New England from an apt.-hunting trip to NY, where I'm being transferred. Thought I wanted to live in Brooklyn, I work for the govt. (interesting work, low salary). I am white, not really a 'hipster', not wealthy, I like the arts and lots of multicultural stuff, educated, and community-minded.
I am not rich enough for most of NYC, and I don't want to feel like I'm a "snowflake" (uh oh, a white woman, there goes the neighborhood). I don't want men standing on the corner heckling me and my daughter. I want to be able to take the train home after a long day and feel safe going into my apartment. I don't want to be snubbed or knocked off the sidewalk by someone's Coach bag. I need to be able to afford groceries.
Is this impossible now in NY (w/in commuting distance of Midtown)? Am I hopelessly naive thinking I can find a home there? Where should I be looking?
This might be a primitive analysis, but isn't it possible to be more angry with modern parenting than hipsters and yuppies who are currently invading New York and other metropolises?
Parents who worked hard to amass their wealth, children of depression, and baby boomers have armed their offspring with the opportunities they never had. Emphasizing education, exposure to art and literature, glamorization of the big cities, their kids become inflamed with ideas of bigger prospects.
Sending kids into the world, they pay for their education and their apartments, hoping that their children will live the life they couldn't at their age and will explore, opportunities they never had working hard all of their lives.
Good intentions as they may be, these parents remove the struggle from their kids adolescence. These midwestern transplants and yuppies, grow up privileged, wanting to identify with the glamorous or romanticized part of NY, wanting to experience being a true New Yorker. But they never quite make it, because everything is provided for them, and they can't relate to those who had to fully provide for themselves - the middle class.
So they relate to things they are familiar with. Romanticized ideas, materialism, sterile environments they grew up in, and looking for trends because they need an outside source to tell them how to live, because growing up they always received it from their encapsulated and affluent environment. They want to empathize, but they can't. So they pretend, and that ingenuity is apparent, and that is why they are disliked.
Basically it's the parents fault! And that's why I'm so scared to have children, what if I end up being responsible for this mass hatred?
I remember meeting one midwestern transplant who lived in Park Slope, dressed like a hobo, was a member of one of those exclusive food coops, worked at some reputable company in the city and paid crazy rent, parents were wealthy tenured academics. Of course lots of debates arguing for socialism and more social programs for the lower class. Came to visit us in Queens (Forest Hills/Kew Gardens), and said that it was "Shueens." (****ty queens). Moving to queens was like suicide basically.
Yuppies are okay except for the fact that are disgustingly trendy, hypocritically artsy, boldy arrogant and irrelevant, and usually experts about everything under the sun except for realism.
You left out their sense of entitlement!
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