Ok I acknowledge that this opinion might make people want to throw things at me, but gentrification has always seemed pretty good to me. Yes, sometimes poorer people have to move, but increased economic development seems obviously worth it.
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The issue is much more complicated than either you or anti-gentrification people make it out to be.
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Is it the gentrification people have an issue with or the associated stratification of their society/neighborhood? I think its just that gentrification is an overt signal pointing this out.
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Gentrification can be good but it rarely stops before it wrecks things. When all of my musician/artist friends had to move out of San Francisco starting in the late 90s it sucked, a whole scene and culture is gone, replaced by people who have no idea what preceded them.
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WOW. First you say San Francisco is filthy then you support gentrification which only serves rich white people, so tell me, how long have you been in the Nazi party?
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Lol I thought gentrification was when white people start moving into black parts of town and making them nice
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It's a good thing the issue arises when the job market in the area doesn't reflect the price of living
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Everything is always in a state of change (from atoms to neighborhoods). Sometimes rich people move into neighborhoods, sometimes poor people do. Complaining about gentrification seems akin to complaining that Sometimes Things Change.
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