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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t enjoy well maintained houses or McMansions or good schools when I was a renter. I looked in them on horror as distraction of my neighborhood.

I rented in Manhattan in the Dinkens hey day of Crime. We had a $7 dollar haircut place, cheap Irish bars with $5 large pictures and even Nickle beer nights and coffee and a buttered. Bagel one dollar off the cart. My rent was $747 on a one bedroom. Sure I had hookers out front, drug dealers on the corner but I loved it.

My block got gentrified, haircuts $20 dollars, beers, six bucks, Starbucks replaced cart where for $7 I got same thing I got for one buck. A new landlord who installed cameras and spied on tenants to try to force us out of our rent controlled units.

My bodegas, diners, shoemakers, Irish pubs all forced out. My apartment I gave up as I bought a house in 1999 as Manhattan was ruined. No more artists, musicians,firemen, cops, teachers,  middle class, blue collar we were all forced out. My mom was a waitress in the 1950s and when single lived in Manhattan. My friends was 23 and living in cheap walk ups in seedy parts of nyc they could afford.

I don’t see folks coming to Bethesda, McLean or Chevy Chase forcing folks out onto streets. [/quote]

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