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Hood can stay hood a lot longer than your personal life timeline. It's kind of like the assertion 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solv

by mahyarm 10y ago

Hood can stay hood a lot longer than your personal life timeline. It's kind of like the assertion 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent'. Younger people who want to buy somewhere affordable get long commutes instead in boring bedroom communities.

seibelj 10y ago
I'm fine with it being hood, I live here after all. But it is nice when things improve.
- dtparr 10y ago
  You just said: >I wouldn't have raised a family here before gentrification, but every month it seems more realistic... So for young people not wanting to chance the 'gentrification lottery' you're describing with regard to their personal timeline, what you're proposing isn't reasonable.
  - seibelj 10y ago
    It is a lottery? Move where there is a subway stop and property is cheap. Allston, Somerville, Southie, even East Boston is coming around. It isn't fuckin rocket science
    - eli_gottlieb 10y ago
      Somerville has been expensive for years. Our landlord has raised rent by $175/month over the past two years, so we're having to move to Medford.
      - seibelj 10y ago
        I mean the process of those areas getting better happened. Somerville already became nice, it's too late to get in cheap.
- russdpale 10y ago
  Dude, there isn't 'hoods' or ghettos in Boston, at least none that I recognize. Plenty of places deep in the south that are much more dangerous.
  - seibelj 10y ago
    Yes the entire city of Boston is perfectly safe, we have no murders here /s
    - fader 10y ago
      Because you mentioned murder specifically Murder rate per 100k: Boston - 6 Chicago - 20 Atlanta - 20 Washington, DC - 24 Detroit - 44 Boston is a very safe US city. http://www.areavibes.com/compare-results/?place1=Boston%2C%20MA&place2=Chicago%2C%20IL&place3=Washington%2C%20DC&place4=Detroit%2C%20MI&place5=Atlanta%2C%20GA#cri http://www.areavibes.com/compare-results/?place1=Boston%2C%2...
  - mahyarm 10y ago
    I wasnt taking about boston specifically.

by mahyarm 10y ago

seibelj 10y ago

I'm fine with it being hood, I live here after all. But it is nice when things improve.

dtparr 10y ago
You just said: >I wouldn't have raised a family here before gentrification, but every month it seems more realistic... So for young people not wanting to chance the 'gentrification lottery' you're describing with regard to their personal timeline, what you're proposing isn't reasonable.
- seibelj 10y ago
  It is a lottery? Move where there is a subway stop and property is cheap. Allston, Somerville, Southie, even East Boston is coming around. It isn't fuckin rocket science
  - eli_gottlieb 10y ago
    Somerville has been expensive for years. Our landlord has raised rent by $175/month over the past two years, so we're having to move to Medford.
    - seibelj 10y ago
      I mean the process of those areas getting better happened. Somerville already became nice, it's too late to get in cheap.
russdpale 10y ago
Dude, there isn't 'hoods' or ghettos in Boston, at least none that I recognize. Plenty of places deep in the south that are much more dangerous.
- seibelj 10y ago
  Yes the entire city of Boston is perfectly safe, we have no murders here /s
  - fader 10y ago
    Because you mentioned murder specifically Murder rate per 100k: Boston - 6 Chicago - 20 Atlanta - 20 Washington, DC - 24 Detroit - 44 Boston is a very safe US city. http://www.areavibes.com/compare-results/?place1=Boston%2C%20MA&place2=Chicago%2C%20IL&place3=Washington%2C%20DC&place4=Detroit%2C%20MI&place5=Atlanta%2C%20GA#cri http://www.areavibes.com/compare-results/?place1=Boston%2C%2...
- mahyarm 10y ago
  I wasnt taking about boston specifically.