Transplants vs DC Natives

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

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jsteele wrote:

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jsteele wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The Dancing Crab will close instead of renovating...
http://tenleytowndc.org/2015/08/31/dancing-crab-closed/

Sad. Another DC icon, lost to transplants.

If you think transplants are killing a restaurant in Tenleytown, native or not, you don't know DC.

Come on Jeff. You can't be that naive. Surely you're aware of rents being driven up.... ya know, gentrification- all that business?

You are talking about Tenleytown. Tenleytown was gentrified just after the Civil War when the blacks were driven out of Fort Reno.

And it's still in the process of gentrification. The social structure that existed there for years is being driven out as the rents go up. People who aren't from DC are moving in, making that part of the city unlivable/rentable for people who have lived there for decades.

I think after more than 100 years, you don't call it a "process of gentrification" anymore. Moreover, Tenleytown, along with Cleveland Park, is sort of NIMBY-central in DC. Nobody is being driven out by newcomers. Not to mention, an increasingly-wealthy clientele would help a seafood restaurant stay open. You will have to find someone other than transplants to blame for this one.

In theory, increasingly wealthy clientele would help a seafood restaurant, particularly a fancy one stay in business. But the dancing crab was not fancy- it was a lovely, casual local spot, one that many who are new to the neighborhood would probably pass by. Additionally, when rents rise higher than the influx of new customers/revenue, then no- it's not good for business.

And the Dancing Crab is just one of many.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Dancing Crab will close instead of renovating...
http://tenleytowndc.org/2015/08/31/dancing-crab-closed/

Sad. Another DC icon, lost to transplants.

If you think transplants are killing a restaurant in Tenleytown, native or not, you don't know DC.

Come on Jeff. You can't be that naive. Surely you're aware of rents being driven up.... ya know, gentrification- all that business?

You are talking about Tenleytown. Tenleytown was gentrified just after the Civil War when the blacks were driven out of Fort Reno.

Good one, Jeff!

[Anonymous]

The pussification of DC will continue.

Soon every single DC neighborhood will look the same.

Harris Teeter
Unleashed by Petco
Potbelly
Tynan Coffee & Tea
CVS
Starbucks

Its already happening.
Look around.

Soon the east of the river's pussification will start

Good luck trying to convince people who have been pushed out 30 miles from DC to commute back to "THE CITY" to pour your Starbucks coffee, stock your CVS shelves or groom your pets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The pussification of DC will continue.

Soon every single DC neighborhood will look the same.

Harris Teeter
Unleashed by Petco
Potbelly
Tynan Coffee & Tea
CVS
Starbucks

Its already happening.
Look around.

Soon the east of the river's pussification will start

Good luck trying to convince people who have been pushed out 30 miles from DC to commute back to "THE CITY" to pour your Starbucks coffee, stock your CVS shelves or groom your pets.

Housing prices in Anacostia went up 300% this past year.

It's already happening....

[Anonymous]

I’ve lived in a few differences cities and DC natives are an interesting case.

DC has changed and grown tremendously. Yet most of the natives haven’t been able to keep up. There is a stark difference from Manhattan natives with parents with powerful jobs and inter generational wealth. The Manhattan natives have what it takes.

The dc natives are very average and don’t have the money to live here. But they lack the motivation and drive to pick up and be successful somewhere else. They are left behind.

So they lament a time when it was inexpensive to live here and there was less traffic. They can’t keep up.

[Anonymous]

My mom grew up in southeast dc and has told me about the burning down of H street during the riots. My family lives in a close in nova burb now. However, my great-great grandparents migrated from the loudoun area after slavery. Then family on another side they were on a plantation in Maryland so many folks migrated to dc. Now we are all scattered around DC but for the most part no one lives in other parts of the US in our family very few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in a few differences cities and DC natives are an interesting case.

DC has changed and grown tremendously. Yet most of the natives haven’t been able to keep up. There is a stark difference from Manhattan natives with parents with powerful jobs and inter generational wealth. The Manhattan natives have what it takes.

The dc natives are very average and don’t have the money to live here. But they lack the motivation and drive to pick up and be successful somewhere else. They are left behind.

So they lament a time when it was inexpensive to live here and there was less traffic. They can’t keep up.

Although this is a trolly post (the REAL average people are the transplant conservatives flown in here to work for rightwing orgs)
I’ll give a serious answer:

A problem in DC, as in many American cities, is that it is far too expensive to live here.
That is because of bad zoning laws which have prevented building as many new housing units as the city needs.
NIMBYs are a big part of that problem.

The only answer is: eliminate the height limit and build new multi-family everywhere. Flood the market with new units.
That’s the only thing that will bring prices down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is truly ridiculous.

Signed,

not a DC native, not a transplant
(Native of Moco)

+1

DC native (SWW HS grad)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in a few differences cities and DC natives are an interesting case.

DC has changed and grown tremendously. Yet most of the natives haven’t been able to keep up. There is a stark difference from Manhattan natives with parents with powerful jobs and inter generational wealth. The Manhattan natives have what it takes.

The dc natives are very average and don’t have the money to live here. But they lack the motivation and drive to pick up and be successful somewhere else. They are left behind.

So they lament a time when it was inexpensive to live here and there was less traffic. They can’t keep up.

Although this is a trolly post (the REAL average people are the transplant conservatives flown in here to work for rightwing orgs)
I’ll give a serious answer:

A problem in DC, as in many American cities, is that it is far too expensive to live here.
That is because of bad zoning laws which have prevented building as many new housing units as the city needs.
NIMBYs are a big part of that problem.

The only answer is: eliminate the height limit and build new multi-family everywhere. Flood the market with new units.
That’s the only thing that will bring prices down.

I'm sure most people in DC are "REAL average people" whether they're hipster baristas with a fancy SLAC degree, or an impassioned, bushy-eyed naive youth who thinks she can save the world by working at a non-profit, or smirking BIGLAWyers who haven't figured out they're only highly glorified desktop monkeys yet. And they are all transplants. None of them are special or noteworthy. Because those people don't come to DC. The real talent is elsewhere and it always has been.