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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Exactly how many "I hate gentrifiers" threads do we need? Here is how these discussions go:

Transplants are boring and turning the city into the suburbs.

Natives are all lazy criminals who couldn't develop themselves out of a wet paper bag.

How many different ways do you need to say those exact same things? The amazing thing is that no matter how creative you get, you will always be wrong. Generalizations about either group will never be accurate.

If you are a native and you don't like the changes, I'm sorry. Insulting DCUM posters is not going to make things better. If you are a transplant and don't have respect for natives, I'm also sorry. But, insulting DCUM posters is not going to make things better.

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I am not a native.

The city has become cookie cutter in a disgusting kind of way.[/quote]

Again, a generalization is almost always going to fail. [b]Can you really truly say that about the entire city? I don't think you can.[/b] I think such a perception must come from having a very limited view of things. What may be true for a few limited areas is not true everywhere.
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Yes I can.

So the tons upon tons of other people (mostly natives) who also think the new DC blows have a limited view of things as well?[/quote]

Thinking that the new DC blows is not the same as thinking that the "city has become cookie cutter". I am not sure why conversations such as this can't include nuance. Why must it be "everything is better" or "everything is worse"?  I suspect that even those who believe that overall the new DC blows enjoy certain aspects of new DC. It is unlikely that anyone hates everything that is new. Do you know why? Because not everything new is the same. And, because not everything new is the same, it is not accurate to say that the city has become "cookie cutter". Sure, some development has been that way. But, not all of it.
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