Everytime a condo is built and/or a gentrifier moves to DC the city becomes less & less interesting

[Anonymous]

http://www.theonion.com/article/shitty-neighborhood-rallies-against-asshole-develo-2229

This article's always appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


You so international.

I'm not a native.

I travel as well.
I enjoy traveling.
Traveling to Mexico in a couple of months.
Distrito Federal.

I seriously doubt you were in the DC area before me.

Electronics is one of my hobbies.
Do you remember Tanen's?
Downtown used to be so much fun.

Where did you buy your electronics before the bullshit Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart chain store era?

I like having TVs with more features and bigger screens that I don't have to work as many hours to buy.

Every era's making its nostalgia. Every era's going to have its habits that shock our grandkids like the smoking/drinking in the office and littering in Mad Men shock us today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL


I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?


Whenever someone wants to go back to "old DC" I remember trash piling up in the streets, no plowing, government shutdowns, people complaining about gentrification, DCPS hating charter schools....wait, actually nothing has changed at all.


Yeah man there was nothing in DC until the transplants came here and blessed the locals with block after block of CVS, Starbucks & Whole Foods.

I remember 14th street, burnt out and boarded up houses on 13th street, needle all over Logan Circle. People scared to leave their homes...great times!

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL

I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?

Whenever someone wants to go back to "old DC" I remember trash piling up in the streets, no plowing, government shutdowns, people complaining about gentrification, DCPS hating charter schools....wait, actually nothing has changed at all.

Old DC didn't have charter schools. West of the park DCPS was all out of bounds. West of the park kids went to private schools. That's changed quite a bit.

That's why I put "old" in quotes. Every reference so far to "old DC" is from the 90s. To me, that is not really old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL


I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?


Whenever someone wants to go back to "old DC" I remember trash piling up in the streets, no plowing, government shutdowns, people complaining about gentrification, DCPS hating charter schools....wait, actually nothing has changed at all.


Yeah man there was nothing in DC until the transplants came here and blessed the locals with block after block of CVS, Starbucks & Whole Foods.

I remember 14th street, burnt out and boarded up houses on 13th street, needle all over Logan Circle. People scared to leave their homes...great times!

Don't forget the hookers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


You so international.

I'm not a native.

I travel as well.
I enjoy traveling.
Traveling to Mexico in a couple of months.
Distrito Federal.

I seriously doubt you were in the DC area before me.

Electronics is one of my hobbies.
Do you remember Tanen's?
Downtown used to be so much fun.

Where did you buy your electronics before the bullshit Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart chain store era?

I like having TVs with more features and bigger screens that I don't have to work as many hours to buy.

Every era's making its nostalgia. Every era's going to have its habits that shock our grandkids like the smoking/drinking in the office and littering in Mad Men shock us today.

So in other words you did not arrive here until after the chain store era?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL

I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?

Whenever someone wants to go back to "old DC" I remember trash piling up in the streets, no plowing, government shutdowns, people complaining about gentrification, DCPS hating charter schools....wait, actually nothing has changed at all.

Old DC didn't have charter schools. West of the park DCPS was all out of bounds. West of the park kids went to private schools. That's changed quite a bit.

That's why I put "old" in quotes. Every reference so far to "old DC" is from the 90s. To me, that is not really old.

Tanen's was still open in the 90s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL

I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?

Whenever someone wants to go back to "old DC" I remember trash piling up in the streets, no plowing, government shutdowns, people complaining about gentrification, DCPS hating charter schools....wait, actually nothing has changed at all.

Old DC didn't have charter schools. West of the park DCPS was all out of bounds. West of the park kids went to private schools. That's changed quite a bit.

That's why I put "old" in quotes. Every reference so far to "old DC" is from the 90s. To me, that is not really old.

This picture was taken in the 90s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL

I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?

They are too stupid to realize the MPD hates them too.

That has absolutely nothing to do with the comment you are replying to. Also, not everyone, including the MPD, is an insane crusader against Whole Foods and new people moving to DC, only you are.

Oh you would be surprised. Shocked. If only you knew how many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL


I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?


Whenever someone wants to go back to "old DC" I remember trash piling up in the streets, no plowing, government shutdowns, people complaining about gentrification, DCPS hating charter schools....wait, actually nothing has changed at all.


Yeah man there was nothing in DC until the transplants came here and blessed the locals with block after block of CVS, Starbucks & Whole Foods.

I remember 14th street, burnt out and boarded up houses on 13th street, needle all over Logan Circle. People scared to leave their homes...great times!

Stop exaggerating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL

Robberies and shootings are not "urban situations". They happen in the suburbs, too. They even happen in the boondocks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
What is the gentrifier's obsession with being urban?
Then when they end up in urban situations such as a robbery or a shooting they complain about it.
LOL


I don't know. I think not complaining about it is a bigger problem. Why would you simply accept robbery and shooting? Are robberies and shootings the sort of thing you think we should have more of?


Whenever someone wants to go back to "old DC" I remember trash piling up in the streets, no plowing, government shutdowns, people complaining about gentrification, DCPS hating charter schools....wait, actually nothing has changed at all.


Yeah man there was nothing in DC until the transplants came here and blessed the locals with block after block of CVS, Starbucks & Whole Foods.

I remember 14th street, burnt out and boarded up houses on 13th street, needle all over Logan Circle. People scared to leave their homes...great times!

Stop exaggerating.

Seriously. Lived at 15th and U during the height of the crack era. Sketchy? Yes. But not that dramatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


You so international.

I'm not a native.

I travel as well.
I enjoy traveling.
Traveling to Mexico in a couple of months.
Distrito Federal.

I seriously doubt you were in the DC area before me.

Electronics is one of my hobbies.
Do you remember Tanen's?
Downtown used to be so much fun.

Where did you buy your electronics before the bullshit Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart chain store era?

I like having TVs with more features and bigger screens that I don't have to work as many hours to buy.

Every era's making its nostalgia. Every era's going to have its habits that shock our grandkids like the smoking/drinking in the office and littering in Mad Men shock us today.

So in other words you did not arrive here until after the chain store era?

Let us pretend I got off the plane last week and rent a trendy loft somewhere in Penn Quarter.

Now, how does that make a difference to what I just said?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I remember 14th street, burnt out and boarded up houses on 13th street, needle all over Logan Circle. People scared to leave their homes...great times!

Stop exaggerating.

I think that sometimes people get the movies mixed up with real life.

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139916927/on-location-fort-apache-a-war-zone-in-the-bronx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Can you give an example of "old DC" that has been lost because of gentrification? When I look around, I see the Howard Theater restored and the Lincoln Theater restored and a bunch of other things in far better shape then they were not long ago. I'm not a fan of the chain development in Gallery Place, but I like it more than the adult bookstores that were there when I came to DC. I miss DC Space, but there are enough similar places to take its place. What exactly has been lost that you are so worked up about?

Well for starters the entire area where Nats Park was built was stolen via eminent domain.
The property owners were f*cked over.
I know of one person who said the city's appraisal of his property was off by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Dont even get me started about how I feel about the Nats.

That doesn't really answer my question. The stadium was another of Mayor William's projects. If the land owners were screwed over, it was most likely by local developers with the Williams administration's help. Back in my university days, I ventured down to Tracks a time or two. While it was unique in its way, I can't say that it and the rest of what was there was preferable to what we have now.

I agree with you that the City has become incredibly expensive and I strongly believe that more should be done to prevent long-time residents from being pushed out. I am very suspicious of developers and their bought and paid for politicians. But, I disagree that all problems should be laid at the feet of newcomers. Take another example, 14th Street. That is gentrifier-central. But, that was Mayor Barry's creation. Barry put the Reeves Center there for the exact purpose of spurring development. It was his pet developer that was behind a lot of it. Funny, the only thing I used to go to 14th Street for was the New Vegas Lounge. It's still there (though I haven't been in years).

Tracks was awesome.
That was not my kind of music or scene but it has become legendary among locals & non locals.
They had a reunion gathering a couple of years ago complete with patron pictures and even club memorabilia.
Tracks was much better than the bullshit upscale bottle service DREAM/LOVE era clubs.

I used to go to the old Black Cat.
Haven't been to the new one yet.
I keep saying I am going to go but then something else comes up and I end up not going.
Bummer.

Why do you write like this? Stop hitting enter at the end of every line. It's not a poem.