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

jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:

I find this mural hilarious because the type of person this mural is depicting is the exact type of person who is attracting chain stores to DC and driving up rents (both residential & business) thus forcing lots of local businesses to go out of business.


You claim that you are not a native. What makes you different than any other transplant? I assume that your housing and other needs contributed to demand and, hence, price increases? Or, did you live on the street and eat from dumpsters?
Anonymous
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.


Yup. Some things are better. Some things are worse. And some things are the same!
Anonymous
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?
jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yup. Some things are better. Some things are worse. And some things are the same!


This is how I feel as well.
Anonymous
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

I find this mural hilarious because the type of person this mural is depicting is the exact type of person who is attracting chain stores to DC and driving up rents (both residential & business) thus forcing lots of local businesses to go out of business.


You claim that you are not a native. What makes you different than any other transplant? I assume that your housing and other needs contributed to demand and, hence, price increases? Or, did you live on the street and eat from dumpsters?


Real estate in the DC area did not begin to skyrocket until the 2000s

Anonymous
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yup. Some things are better. Some things are worse. And some things are the same!


This is how I feel as well.


+1

Change is good. Get over it.

No one really cares how the locals think that change is bad, and how you think you used to have "cool" (not so cool) nightlife. Very little about D.C. was ever distinct. Sure, it's the nation's capital, but many things (Metro, for example) are embarrassing. I suppose you will someday plat her on about pining for the old Metro?

Besides, the shiny new homes you take such offense to are carrying the tax base. Certainly the whiner locals are not. Know when to shut it and be grateful.
Anonymous
plat her = plather
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Now post some pictures of that same street, except further east, after the 1968 riots, and of that same street in 1990.

+10000

How soon we forget.


The entire city was not abandoned after 1968 riots.
jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

I find this mural hilarious because the type of person this mural is depicting is the exact type of person who is attracting chain stores to DC and driving up rents (both residential & business) thus forcing lots of local businesses to go out of business.


You claim that you are not a native. What makes you different than any other transplant? I assume that your housing and other needs contributed to demand and, hence, price increases? Or, did you live on the street and eat from dumpsters?


Real estate in the DC area did not begin to skyrocket until the 2000s



So, what you are saying is that since you got in while things were still cheap, your contribution didn't matter? By that calculus, I'm home free as well. We bought our house earlier than that.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yup. Some things are better. Some things are worse. And some things are the same!


This is how I feel as well.


+1

Change is good. Get over it.

No one really cares how the locals think that change is bad, and how you think you used to have "cool" (not so cool) nightlife. Very little about D.C. was ever distinct. Sure, it's the nation's capital, but many things (Metro, for example) are embarrassing. I suppose you will someday plat her on about pining for the old Metro?

Besides, the shiny new homes you take such offense to are carrying the tax base. Certainly the whiner locals are not. Know when to shut it and be grateful.


Metro is worse now than it was before. Way less reliable.

Thanks to transplants who mostly all came here just to leech off of the local economy.
jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to transplants who mostly all came here just to leech off of the local economy.


But, again, you said you are a transplant. Are you also a leech?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yup. Some things are better. Some things are worse. And some things are the same!


This is how I feel as well.


+1

Change is good. Get over it.

No one really cares how the locals think that change is bad, and how you think you used to have "cool" (not so cool) nightlife. Very little about D.C. was ever distinct. Sure, it's the nation's capital, but many things (Metro, for example) are embarrassing. I suppose you will someday plat her on about pining for the old Metro?

Besides, the shiny new homes you take such offense to are carrying the tax base. Certainly the whiner locals are not. Know when to shut it and be grateful.


Bullshit!
There was a lot about DC that was very distinct.

You must be gentrifier recent arrival.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:

I find this mural hilarious because the type of person this mural is depicting is the exact type of person who is attracting chain stores to DC and driving up rents (both residential & business) thus forcing lots of local businesses to go out of business.


I dare anyone to try and refute this.
jsteele
Site Admin Online
Anonymous wrote:
Bullshit!
There was a lot about DC that was very distinct.



I agree with this, but the reality is that a lot of this was disappearing anyway. People keep mentioning the riots, but the drug murders in the 80s also caused a huge outflow of population. A city can't lose that many people without a negative impact.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:

No one really cares how the locals think that change is bad, and how you think you used to have "cool" (not so cool) nightlife. Very little about D.C. was ever distinct. Sure, it's the nation's capital, but many things (Metro, for example) are embarrassing. I suppose you will someday plat her on about pining for the old Metro?



I am pining for the old Metro -- specifically, the 30 seconds between the completion of the original planned system in 2004 and the beginning of the results of deferred maintenance.
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