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At least we're agreed it's not part of an "ugly urban cycle."
by mapgrep 14y ago
At least we're agreed it's not part of an "ugly urban cycle."
- wpietri 14y agoWe agree that it's not ugly if you've got plenty of money. If you're one of the people forced out, then it is little consolation that the richer people who replace you think the city is "better off".
- mapgrep 14y agoI'd be really interested to see the argument in which the city is better off in the opposite case - the startups all, as OP suggested, keep to the suburbs (like Pleasanton) or cheaper Midwestern cities (won't the gentrification just move to those cities?) or maybe the middle of nowhere where no one will be gentrified but everyone has to spew loads of CO2 into the atmosphere to get there.
- wpietri 14y agoHas anybody sane proposed that we pursue the opposite case?