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What I love about these arguments is how arbitrary they are as to when the location has reached it's pinnacle of awesomeness and should be frozen in time from t
by JPKab 6y ago
What I love about these arguments is how arbitrary they are as to when the location has reached it's pinnacle of awesomeness and should be frozen in time from then on.
"Manhattan was once a Dutch colony. Those horrible gentrifiers in Harlem need to get the fuck out, now! Harlem is for the Dutch! Colonialism!!!"
The lack of self-awareness is thoroughly amusing. Racist white people in city centers could have made the exact same complaint as their neighborhoods gradually shifted to more and more minority occupants. At the end of the day, your just Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York. "Keep the invading hordes out! This is OUR land!"
- nitrogen 6y agoThe lack of self-awareness is thoroughly amusing. The feeling is mutual, I assure you. I've lived in suburbs, city centers, rural areas, deserts, inland, coastal. I put my money where my mouth is and rented in high density new builds in downtown SF for 3 years. It was utter crap. There's no community, no shared story, and literal crap on the streets. I've also seen what happens when urbanites move out to the country; they don't know how to respect the space of others. They build monuments to anti-Native American racism right up to the edge of their property line, when they have 10 acres they could have used to gap out like everyone else. The ethos of a place is provided by the people who've lived there for a long time. That ethos can only be preserved when growth is carefully considered, and doesn't screw over the people who've cooperated for a very long time to make the place what it is.