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> good housing full of artists and musicians and other self-employed creatives It looks like - it might not be what you mean, but it looks like - you're saying
by mmooss 8mo ago
> good housing full of artists and musicians and other self-employed creatives
It looks like - it might not be what you mean, but it looks like - you're saying 'good housing' is housing that has "artists and musicians and other self-employed creatives", as opposed to poor working people.
- JuniperMesos 8mo agoMany artists and self-employed creatives are themselves poor working people - making art is work (and so is marketing it to potential customers), and most artists are not lucky or successful enough to become wealthy doing it. But yes, I think there is a sense in which people who are driven to create have some kind of ineffable, cultural capital that people without this drive do not have. So a neighborhood that is full of artists is more interesting, and therefore more valuable to spend time in, than one that isn't.
- FarmerPotato 8mo agoSee the photo in the above East Side article. In the old neighborhood, people talked to the photographer because the front yards didn't have privacy fences.