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

[Anonymous]

I hope her phone gets snatched away from her.

(((This is coming from someone with no criminal record who has never been arrested)))

[Anonymous]

OP, I bet you're the most bad-ass guy in the whole juice bar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Washington never was and never will be "interesting."

Says the gentrifier who has lived here since wayyyyyyyyyy back in 2006.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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."

If you're a native, then you know that the real name of the neighborhood is Swampoodle. That has to be worth $1,000 a month right there.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washington never was and never will be "interesting."

Says the gentrifier who has lived here since wayyyyyyyyyy back in 2006.

The poster might be a gentrifier, but that just serves to demonstrate how not all gentrifiers are the same. Say what you will, but in my experience gentrifiers think DC is interesting.

I am really perplexed at how closed-minded one must be not to find something of interest in DC.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

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?

Gentrifiers are leeching.
Taking the easy way out.
Leeching off of the government.
Leeching off of the healthy local economy.

As far as the Wizards.
WORST NAME EVER.
Wizards SUCK.
The Wizards are the gentrified Bullets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or...Virginia!

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washington never was and never will be "interesting."

Says the gentrifier who has lived here since wayyyyyyyyyy back in 2006.

The poster might be a gentrifier, but that just serves to demonstrate how not all gentrifiers are the same. Say what you will, but in my experience gentrifiers think DC is interesting.

I am really perplexed at how closed-minded one must be not to find something of interest in DC.

Disagree. It's a great place to visit.....

[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?

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.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:
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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous 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.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or...Virginia!

We shall see if you still feel the same way about VA once your children enter their DCPS middle school years.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous 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.

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.

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous 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.

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.