Anonymous
02/26/2023 15:38
Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Coffee fetishism is so funny to me.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 15:30
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Gentrification is awesome. Is this thread for real?
For rich homeowners, yes.
Yeah man, like everyone should just live in yurts, and like read poetry, and capitalism sucks, man. I can’t believe neighborhoods change. You ever been to a Wegman’s? It’s the worst. We should totally try to maintain the same poor infrastructure in perpetuity because, like, it’s the right thing to do. Coffee and safety are so dumb.
And bodegas. We need to keep expensive, low quality food sources available. WF is the wrong direction, no one wants expensive, high quality food.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 15:14
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm strongly in favor of improving our neighborhood. Who wants to live in crime and filth?
Well people would rather not have their rent double and end up homeless.
People also don't want to be shot by 13 year old carjackers or have their kids mowed down by ATVs walking home from school. The increasing disorder and lawlessness is the most pressing problem in DC.
You can't have nice things in an urban environment.
London, Paris, Hong Kong. All even more urban than DC and they would not tolerate these levels of violence and filth.
This!! Cities can be glorious. They don't have to suck.
Also be critical of claims of idigeneity made by whatever population is complaining about gentrification in any given place. Plenty of neighborhoods in DC were built by one group or another and have seen multiple demographic transitions over the last 150 years. A neighborhood doesn't "belong" to anyone.
If you grew up in a high cost of living city yourself, can you afford your childhood home? My middle income dual professional family can't. No one owes you the right to live wherever you want to live forever, and no one is insulating my family from downward social mobility caused by rising costs. C'mon!
“Glorious cities” is very LOL. Most people that live in cities around the world hate their cities, dream of moving someplace else but also can never bring themselves to actually leave.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 15:11
Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization?
- When I lived in DC and MD between 2016-2020, I did pitch in to mutual aid many times. The main way that helped to prevent gentrification was by being neighborly and supporting the mutual aid/communal safety net. A homeless couple lived with us for two months. I bought groceries for people who needed them, like the large family who lived in two hotel rooms. Gave money to get out of homelessness to a former co-worker (3x rent deposit on an apartment). Paid bail for a falsely accused man. Paid someone's dental bill for a long-term pain. For two years, 10% of my take-home pay as a reparations payment to a Black mutual aid group.
- I have moved away from DC and back to NOVA, lived in the area since childhood. Here, I'm the person who would be gentrified out because renting on a relatively low salary. I buy almost exclusively from locally-owned businesses and small farms, with the exception of loving Costco - they are union, very good at what they do.
- If we buy a house in a small town as we plan, then I may be the gentrifier/remote worker pricing out a local. There, wanting to do some kind of community service like teaching/ sharing my skills to be useful to the community.
Being “neighborly” prevents gentrification? lol. Dude just admit you moved in, paid $900k for a 15 foot wide townhouse that cost $75k in 1997 (because of people like you), but that you made an effort by “reaching out” to a neighbor to tell them you like go go and mumbo sauce to be “down” with dc culture.
I’m so tired of smug, do gooder, selfloathing, urbanist types. I see so much virtue signaling because I grew up in dc. But unlike these folks, I welcome all the new restaurants and the lower crime (until recent progressive criminal justice reform efforts seem to be turning things badly).
Anonymous
02/26/2023 15:02
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Gentrification is awesome. Is this thread for real?
For rich homeowners, yes.
Yeah man, like everyone should just live in yurts, and like read poetry, and capitalism sucks, man. I can’t believe neighborhoods change. You ever been to a Wegman’s? It’s the worst. We should totally try to maintain the same poor infrastructure in perpetuity because, like, it’s the right thing to do. Coffee and safety are so dumb.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 14:51
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Gentrification is awesome. Is this thread for real?
For rich homeowners, yes.
It's also good for modest homeowners fighting to stay in the middle class who would rather not see their investments evaporate in a puff of crime and filth. Stop demonizing law-abiding people who don't embrace dysfunction.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 14:03
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Gentrification is awesome. Is this thread for real?
For rich homeowners, yes.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 14:02
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Gentrification is awesome. Is this thread for real?
Anonymous
02/26/2023 13:58
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I want gentrification. I want all poor people driven away from this country. Poor and illeducated, criminal and insane - we do not need these people in our country.
Who do you think pumps your gas, repairs your car, cleans your floors, delivers your packages?
Robots, pretty soon.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 13:57
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm strongly in favor of improving our neighborhood. Who wants to live in crime and filth?
Well people would rather not have their rent double and end up homeless.
People also don't want to be shot by 13 year old carjackers or have their kids mowed down by ATVs walking home from school. The increasing disorder and lawlessness is the most pressing problem in DC.
You can't have nice things in an urban environment.
ATVs are a WV redneck thing
12 O’clock boys have entered the chat.
Anonymous
02/26/2023 13:32
Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Littering.
You’re welcome.
LOL
Anonymous
02/26/2023 13:27
Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
*indigeneity
Anonymous
02/26/2023 13:26
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm strongly in favor of improving our neighborhood. Who wants to live in crime and filth?
Well people would rather not have their rent double and end up homeless.
People also don't want to be shot by 13 year old carjackers or have their kids mowed down by ATVs walking home from school. The increasing disorder and lawlessness is the most pressing problem in DC.
You can't have nice things in an urban environment.
London, Paris, Hong Kong. All even more urban than DC and they would not tolerate these levels of violence and filth.
This!! Cities can be glorious. They don't have to suck.
Also be critical of claims of idigeneity made by whatever population is complaining about gentrification in any given place. Plenty of neighborhoods in DC were built by one group or another and have seen multiple demographic transitions over the last 150 years. A neighborhood doesn't "belong" to anyone.
If you grew up in a high cost of living city yourself, can you afford your childhood home? My middle income dual professional family can't. No one owes you the right to live wherever you want to live forever, and no one is insulating my family from downward social mobility caused by rising costs. C'mon!
Anonymous
02/26/2023 12:57
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:What is the opposite of Gentrification ???
Capital flight
Anonymous
02/26/2023 12:53
Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
What is the opposite of Gentrification ???