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Artists tend towards progressive locales.
by popularrecluse 4y ago
Artists tend towards progressive locales.
- dredmorbius 4y agoSee, for example, Marfa, TX. Artists seek low costs. They tend to create progressive locales. Then the gentrification cycle sets in. I'm not saying all low-rent regions will attract art, but it's possible to generate some pretty significant cultural shifts. San Francisco / Berkeley becoming capitals of counterculture was not an entirely obvious outcome from the perspective of the 1930s, 40s, or 50s. A friend recalls the Haight-Ashbury when it was largely a Greek ethnic neighbourhood.