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Personally I’m less interested in looking for neighbourhoods where gentrification is going on than I am to discover what makes places become “not sketchy”. Wha

• nkozyra 8y ago
  Isn't that effectively the same thing? The long tail of gentrification is rising prices and (somewhat) lowered crime. I've long suspected you can predict this with ML given the right features but also realized you don't really need any autonomous process, it's generally an understood pattern. Perhaps if you wanted to buy thousands of properties across the country. * I've long noticed that people in gentrified areas will accept higher crime rates not just because the inevitability of being right next to a not-yet-gentrified area, but because it makes their area feel more "real" or "gritty."
• kurtisc 8y ago
  'Walkability' is a concept that comes up on HN quite often. Things like awnings and doorways can make somewhere feel more comfortable to walk in and I guess that would make it feel less sketchy.