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I live in NYC and, over the last decade, can attest to this reverse migration phenomena. The city is definitely becoming gentrified, safer and expensive. For th
by siculars 18y ago
I live in NYC and, over the last decade, can attest to this reverse migration phenomena. The city is definitely becoming gentrified, safer and expensive. For the first time in years the city is expanding public grade school capacity in area long deserted by families.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoI vividly remember going to Manhattan in 1998 and not seeing a single child. (I was 12 at the time).
- jimbokun 18y agoI remember moving to Manhattan in 2000, and not realizing at first almost all of the people pushing strollers around were not mothers, but nannies. The lack of physical resemblance to the children (nannies generally darker in skin tone) should have clued me in sooner.
- time_management 18y agoNew York is probably the strangest case of this. Usually, before gentrification can occur, the housing stock must be upgraded, with laundry machines in each apartment and common spaces for each building. New York is gentrifying rapidly, but the housing stock remains of utterly terrible quality.