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I think one important part of Gentrification means there are people with more money moving into a neighbourhood. The real estate agents just showed the building

I think one important part of Gentrification means there are people with more money moving into a neighbourhood. The real estate agents just showed the building to them on the quiet day and they bought their piece of it, believing it's like this all day every day. And when they move in, they realise the quietness was rather the exception than the rule. If they were from the area before, they would have known. But because they payed this amount of money, they think they bought the right to a have the quietness they were sold on. I've seen similar things in Berlin in the 90s and early 2000s when West-Germans, mostly from Swabia moved in. They were sold apartments next to Youth clubs and the new neighbours didn't like that they had loud music on Friday and Saturday nights. But this was Berlin, this was what it was famous for. But whatever, a lot of the clubs had to shut down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaack_club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaack_club

Anthony-G 6y ago
Having had a few nights out in the Knaack, that was sad to read. I lived in Prenzlauer Berg for a short while in the mid-nineties and the clubs were a larger part of what Prenzlauer Berg such an interesting/happening area to live in. Before that, I had lived between Biesdorf and Marzahn – which was a quite a different experience (for a bearded, long-haired “auslander”).
sjg007 6y ago
Neighborhoods change so they have a right to complain!
hef19898 6y ago
This minority has a tendency to force these things, even by court if necessary. Clubs in cities, church bells and cows in villages. Kindergardens, schools. Heck, even shops and decade old craftsman outlets. No idea what drives these people.
nomdep 6y ago
No one has the right of imposing their noise unto others. Even if they have done it with impunity for quite some time.
- compiler-guy 6y ago
  This is really not true. There are plenty of situations where noise is expected and normal.

Anthony-G 6y ago

Having had a few nights out in the Knaack, that was sad to read. I lived in Prenzlauer Berg for a short while in the mid-nineties and the clubs were a larger part of what Prenzlauer Berg such an interesting/happening area to live in. Before that, I had lived between Biesdorf and Marzahn – which was a quite a different experience (for a bearded, long-haired “auslander”).

sjg007 6y ago

Neighborhoods change so they have a right to complain!

hef19898 6y ago

This minority has a tendency to force these things, even by court if necessary. Clubs in cities, church bells and cows in villages. Kindergardens, schools. Heck, even shops and decade old craftsman outlets. No idea what drives these people.

nomdep 6y ago

No one has the right of imposing their noise unto others. Even if they have done it with impunity for quite some time.

compiler-guy 6y ago
This is really not true. There are plenty of situations where noise is expected and normal.