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

Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:I think OP is just a troll but I will say this. I'm a transplant. Been here 22 years and I will take the D.C. of 2015 over the D.C. of 1993 any day of the week. Downtown had no residents, businesses would only be open during the week, you wouldn't dare walk in most parts of bloomingdale, NOMA, wherever, and don't get me started about Columbia Heights. I am all for people that want to move to D.C. and become a part of the community.


Gentrifier PP here. I bolded the key part of your statement. If more of the gentrifiers were becoming part of the community, rather than acting like long term tourists, I would be all for it.


Agree. I don't care where you were born, how long you have lived here. If you want to invest (and I don't mean money) in my neighborhood...join me. If you want to sit back and bitch and complain, get out of the way.

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:The city is becoming more cookie cutter with each condo being built and each gentrifier arrival.
DC has turned into the exact same thing the gentrifiers were trying to escape (the suburbs) by coming here in the first place.
The city used to be interesting but those days are long gone.
DC has turned into a disgusting overpriced yuppie sh*thole.
I'm not hating on anyone I'm just stating facts.


Tough shit
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:There aren't enough gentrifiers in my neighborhood in NE.
Plenty of drug dealing and moped riding hoodies though. Can we also trade one of the 5 liquor stores in 2 blocks for a Starbucks? Pretty please??


i hope this is sarcasm


Not one sentence was sarcastic. Do you need clarification on anything? Gentrification is coming very slowly in my neck of the woods (Brentwood).


+100. Gentrification is one funny word, in that it tries hard to give some negative connotations to something THAT IS CLEARLY POSITIVE.


LOL, I'm glad the upper-middle class white male has identified himself in this thread.

Nope, there couldn't possibly be a downside to gentrification to any person! It's all positive! Yaaaaay, and you get a jumbo mortgage, and you get one too, and here - you can also have a jumbo mortgage! JUMBOs 4 EVERYONE!!!!!
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Anonymous wrote:I moved here in early 90s. Love some of the changes to the City (downtown!). Miss others (adams Morgan is sad).

Cities change.


Starbucks?
Panera?
Potbelly?
Walgreens?
Forever 21?
H&M?
J Crew?
CVS?
Bed Bath Beyond?

Seriously?

Are you a troll?


No, but I also travel more than 2 blocks away from Chinatown metro. You may want to get out more and rediscover some interesting things going on in both new and old DC.


There is hardly anything left of the old DC.
You wouldn't know that though because you are a gentrifier.


I don't think gentrifier means what you think it means.


Ok.
You are a recent arrival urban try hard.


Your assumption being that I didn't move from a larger, more urban environment. You realize, that many people move to Washington for school - or work - from larger cities around the world.


Ok let me guess.
You moved here from a more urban & gritty 2000-2010 New York City?

LOL

Once again.
Spare me.

The people who do come from larger cities around the world would agree about the current incarnation of DC sucking.
I know this because they all tell me so.


Nope. Around the world includes, wait for it...outside of America. Shocking, I know.

I wonder how old you are, with your usage of LOL so frequently. You may be native, but I may be living here longer.




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?
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Okay were you drunk when you wrote this? Or high on some legal marijuana?




Do you remember Luskin's on F Street?



Iona, you're gonna OD on nostalgia.




Do you remember Sommers?
Anonymous
If gentrification means no random drive-bys, no open drug dealing, and very little petty crime then I am all for it.
Just because we live in an urban city, doesn't mean we should just shrug our shoulders when crime happens.
I lived in London in the mid-80's (a much larger city than this one) and I never felt unsafe there, even in crappy neighborhoods (areas that are now gentrified like Hoxton or Kilburn).
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:This is one of the most ridiculous threads in the history of DCUM.


+1! & I am a native, and so are my mother and grandmother. What do all three of us have in common? Marrying people from somewhere else. Were my father and grandfather gentrifiers too?

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There aren't enough gentrifiers in my neighborhood in NE.
Plenty of drug dealing and moped riding hoodies though. Can we also trade one of the 5 liquor stores in 2 blocks for a Starbucks? Pretty please??


i hope this is sarcasm


Not one sentence was sarcastic. Do you need clarification on anything? Gentrification is coming very slowly in my neck of the woods (Brentwood).


+100. Gentrification is one funny word, in that it tries hard to give some negative connotations to something THAT IS CLEARLY POSITIVE.


"Gentrification" describes urban renewal that involves an influx of middle and upper middle class people that displaces lower middle class and low income people. Whether it's a positive thing often depends on your perspective. Early adopter gentrifiers often reap the benefits of cheap housing costs, but they have to also live with the negative aspects of living in area with a lot of poverty (crime, few amenities, etc.). When businesses start moving in, housing prices go up, making it difficult for low income people (some of whom have lived in the neighborhood for generations, who may own their homes, etc.) to continue to afford to live there. Sometimes the money being thrown at low income home owners by developers is just too good to pass up.

Having amenities and lower crime is not a bad thing, in and of itself. When those things come at the cost of forcing out all the people that used to live in an area, many people do not think it's a good thing.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:I hate cookie cutter places myself, but I'll take a yuppie "shithole" over an actual shithole, which is what DC was before yuppies moved in.




Not true.

I used to go shopping with my mother and grandmother in downtown DC when I was a child and it was far from a shithole.
They used to force me to go and I hated it.
But looking back on it now it was interesting. Exciting. Fun.
The exact opposite of right now.


Thats the problem...people who move here have no clue about the history of DC...its beyond annoying. They think they are "saving" the city. Yes 14th street looks "better" than it did a decade ago but my goodness how about some uniqueness. City Center should be called "City Bland". All that prime space wasted on what exactly?
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Do you remember Murrell's? Electromax? Saxitone? The Wiz?
Anonymous
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jsteele wrote:
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No, but I also travel more than 2 blocks away from Chinatown metro. You may want to get out more and rediscover some interesting things going on in both new and old DC.


Exactly! They don't know what they are missing.


You mean over on H Street?

LOL

Spare me.


LMAO!!!!!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There aren't enough gentrifiers in my neighborhood in NE.
Plenty of drug dealing and moped riding hoodies though. Can we also trade one of the 5 liquor stores in 2 blocks for a Starbucks? Pretty please??


i hope this is sarcasm


Not one sentence was sarcastic. Do you need clarification on anything? Gentrification is coming very slowly in my neck of the woods (Brentwood).


+100. Gentrification is one funny word, in that it tries hard to give some negative connotations to something THAT IS CLEARLY POSITIVE.


LOL, I'm glad the upper-middle class white male has identified himself in this thread.

Nope, there couldn't possibly be a downside to gentrification to any person! It's all positive! Yaaaaay, and you get a jumbo mortgage, and you get one too, and here - you can also have a jumbo mortgage! JUMBOs 4 EVERYONE!!!!!


1) Dear racist b*tch, why do you infer I'm white? (Nope, fyi)

2) Yep, upper-middle class now, thanks to hard and smart work since immigrating into the US. I assume you had the luxury of learning English since birth, and also benefited from the infrastructure of one of the richest countries in the world, yet still see yourself as a loser...Sorry, my friend, that has much more to do with yourself than with gentrification

3) Something can be CLEARLY POSITIVE as a whole yet have negative consequences to some people. Think taxes, a new road, charter schools, cars, the Internet, an Irish pub...learn how to think...or, well, thank God you'll be gentrified out of DC.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:If gentrification means no random drive-bys, no open drug dealing, and very little petty crime then I am all for it.
Just because we live in an urban city, doesn't mean we should just shrug our shoulders when crime happens.
I lived in London in the mid-80's (a much larger city than this one) and I never felt unsafe there, even in crappy neighborhoods (areas that are now gentrified like Hoxton or Kilburn).


Stop exaggerating again.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:If gentrification means no random drive-bys, no open drug dealing, and very little petty crime then I am all for it.
Just because we live in an urban city, doesn't mean we should just shrug our shoulders when crime happens.
I lived in London in the mid-80's (a much larger city than this one) and I never felt unsafe there, even in crappy neighborhoods (areas that are now gentrified like Hoxton or Kilburn).



But DC crime is high...especially if your comparing it to the last couple of years. So we now have bland atmosphere and a lot of crime
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There aren't enough gentrifiers in my neighborhood in NE.
Plenty of drug dealing and moped riding hoodies though. Can we also trade one of the 5 liquor stores in 2 blocks for a Starbucks? Pretty please??


i hope this is sarcasm


Not one sentence was sarcastic. Do you need clarification on anything? Gentrification is coming very slowly in my neck of the woods (Brentwood).


+100. Gentrification is one funny word, in that it tries hard to give some negative connotations to something THAT IS CLEARLY POSITIVE.


LOL, I'm glad the upper-middle class white male has identified himself in this thread.

Nope, there couldn't possibly be a downside to gentrification to any person! It's all positive! Yaaaaay, and you get a jumbo mortgage, and you get one too, and here - you can also have a jumbo mortgage! JUMBOs 4 EVERYONE!!!!!


1) Dear racist b*tch, why do you infer I'm white? (Nope, fyi)

2) Yep, upper-middle class now, thanks to hard and smart work since immigrating into the US. I assume you had the luxury of learning English since birth, and also benefited from the infrastructure of one of the richest countries in the world, yet still see yourself as a loser...Sorry, my friend, that has much more to do with yourself than with gentrification

3) Something can be CLEARLY POSITIVE as a whole yet have negative consequences to some people. Think taxes, a new road, charter schools, cars, the Internet, an Irish pub...learn how to think...or, well, thank God you'll be gentrified out of DC.


Did you go off your meds today?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I hate cookie cutter places myself, but I'll take a yuppie "shithole" over an actual shithole, which is what DC was before yuppies moved in.




Not true.

I used to go shopping with my mother and grandmother in downtown DC when I was a child and it was far from a shithole.
They used to force me to go and I hated it.
But looking back on it now it was interesting. Exciting. Fun.
The exact opposite of right now.


Thats the problem...people who move here have no clue about the history of DC...its beyond annoying. They think they are "saving" the city. Yes 14th street looks "better" than it did a decade ago but my goodness how about some uniqueness. City Center should be called "City Bland". All that prime space wasted on what exactly?


Gentrifiers are full of shit.
They think they know more about DC than people who have lived in DC for generations.
GTFO here.

"Saving" the city?????

Starbucks?
Whole Foods?
Potbelly?
Panera?
Cupcakes?
Dog parks?
Bike lanes?
Yoga?

LOL

BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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