I guess the counterpoint is what does someone, who is uncomfortable about this, think the urban centers they lived in prior to the moves used to be like? Urban

I guess the counterpoint is what does someone, who is uncomfortable about this, think the urban centers they lived in prior to the moves used to be like? Urban poor or rural poor, techies/finance/etc displace them all the same. The missing link here is, IMO, community involvement. Don’t become a ghost resident jacking up rents. Do join a community board, PTA, etc. Become an active stakeholder and learn about and contribute to wherever you live. Locals, urban or rural, aren’t pissed only about rising rents or home prices, but also millennial wealth moving in and not giving a f about what’s already there. Empathy and demonstrating community interest towards the locals goes so far but that seems so low on the problem population’s radar as an easy solution.