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

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

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?

I arrived here as an infant.
I did not get my 1st actual job (delivering newspapers on my bicycle) until 14 years later.
I am hardly a leech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

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?

I arrived here as an infant.
I did not get my 1st actual job (delivering newspapers on my bicycle) until 14 years later.
I am hardly a leech.

Bah! What were you doing between age 0 and age 15? Leeching, that's what.

[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.

You're so hardcore and legit, Trevor. Keep it real!

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I dare anyone to try and refute this.

What you are missing is that the new population and development are not a one-way street. Transplants haven't only driven development, development attracted transplants. If you are really upset about the stereotypical person presented in that mural, you need to have a discussion with Mayor Williams (who continues to have an important role in city affairs). It was his development plan that aimed at attracting exactly that demographic. Once Williams got them here, additional development catered to their desires. But don't act like transplants invaded DC like a Mongol horde.

[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.

Why is there a big pencil coming out of the back of her head?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

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?

I arrived here as an infant.
I did not get my 1st actual job (delivering newspapers on my bicycle) until 14 years later.
I am hardly a leech.

Bah! What were you doing between age 0 and age 15? Leeching, that's what.

Your math is off.

Also, I tried to get hired delivering newspapers earlier but I was told I was too young.
I was ready at age 10 but they said no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You're so hardcore and legit, Trevor. Keep it real!

Actually, I am sort of a yup myself.

[Anonymous]

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.

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

Seriously?

Are you a troll?

I prefer Bed Bath and Beyond to having one of the highest crime rates in the country.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dare anyone to try and refute this.

What you are missing is that the new population and development are not a one-way street. Transplants haven't only driven development, development attracted transplants. If you are really upset about the stereotypical person presented in that mural, you need to have a discussion with Mayor Williams (who continues to have an important role in city affairs). It was his development plan that aimed at attracting exactly that demographic. Once Williams got them here, additional development catered to their desires. But don't act like transplants invaded DC like a Mongol horde.

At one point DC added 30,000 residents in 27 months... That looks like a Mongol horde to me.

Leechers gonna leech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I prefer Bed Bath and Beyond to having one of the highest crime rates in the country.

I prefer Bed Bath and Beyond to not having anywhere to go to buy the things that Bed Bath and Beyond sells.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dare anyone to try and refute this.

What you are missing is that the new population and development are not a one-way street. Transplants haven't only driven development, development attracted transplants. If you are really upset about the stereotypical person presented in that mural, you need to have a discussion with Mayor Williams (who continues to have an important role in city affairs). It was his development plan that aimed at attracting exactly that demographic. Once Williams got them here, additional development catered to their desires. But don't act like transplants invaded DC like a Mongol horde.

At one point DC added 30,000 residents in 27 months... That looks like a Mongol horde to me.

Leechers gonna leech.

That's just plain silly, PP. For one thing, I haven't seen any horses.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dare anyone to try and refute this.

What you are missing is that the new population and development are not a one-way street. Transplants haven't only driven development, development attracted transplants. If you are really upset about the stereotypical person presented in that mural, you need to have a discussion with Mayor Williams (who continues to have an important role in city affairs). It was his development plan that aimed at attracting exactly that demographic. Once Williams got them here, additional development catered to their desires. But don't act like transplants invaded DC like a Mongol horde.

At one point DC added 30,000 residents in 27 months... That looks like a Mongol horde to me.

Leechers gonna leech.

I'll give you points for creativity. Not many would think of those who are filling jobs as "leeches". I've read quite a lot about the Mongols and I don't remember any city preparing a development plan to attract them.

How do you feel about the Verizon Center? Did you prefer when the Caps and Bullets played in Landover?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many parts of DC are shit holes. I am all for gentrifiers coming in and making the area safer and better.

+ a million.

Shit lovers and crime lovers, good news is that the world is full of places with more than their fair share of shit and crime.

[Anonymous]

Washington never was and never will be "interesting."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a self described yup but there is one thing I do not understand.

Why do these new arrivals pay $2200 a month to live near chain stores, Starbucks and other disgusting condos?

Move to Europe.
Move to the Caribbean.
Move to Japan.

Move some place exciting.

Why would anyone want to be surrounded by cookie cutter blandness?

This is about to be me because I am desperate to find a place. The answer is, it is hard to find a place. And people moving in from out of tone don't know what "bad" these neighborhoods are/used to be.

As a native, I find it hard to stomach that out of desperation I may have to be 2400 a month to live in "NoMa."