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These signs piss me off every time I see them. Always make me think "Oh, I know, it's so horrible that we're helping to bring fresh life into your local economy
by sushisource 11y ago
These signs piss me off every time I see them. Always make me think "Oh, I know, it's so horrible that we're helping to bring fresh life into your local economy, with new amenities and attractions". Sure, high paying tech jobs certainly contribute to housing crunches, but they also help solve them by making high-density buildings with affordable housing in them possible. The street goes both ways.
- c22 11y agoSo I've lived in Seattle my whole life. In the last 5 years the locally operated grocery store near my house was torn down and replaced with a Whole Foods while my favorite movie theater (the only theater I've ever known to provide a sound-proofed room for small children) has become a 21+ reserve-your-seats $80 movie night ordeal. I don't really have a problem with new people moving in and some of my best friends work at Amazon, but you can't really classify all these "new amenities and attractions" as a positive, most of them are just overpriced crap targeted to a demographic I don't belong to. It's not like Seattle was bereft of services and entertainment before you showed up.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoHi, I work in tech. Whole Foods is shit - it's literally just a CostCo with fancier packaging that charges more - and that movie theater sounds like pretentious pap. This all sounds like overpriced crap even though I'm the target demographic. Are you sure there's a magical market force whereby tech workers volunteer to be surrounded by overpriced crap?