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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Obviously, but I was talking about whole apartments.
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I was talking about any situation - roommates apply. A lot of 23 year olds just out of college go this route. Replace it with any number which is reasonable for a neighborhood. The point doesn't change - it still forces people to look in other neighborhoods. I have many co-workers who are younger who have been "forced" to either rent really small places in East Village or Lower East Side with roommates because they "HAVE" to live in Manhattan and think Upper West or Upper East is lame, or the smarter ones will go to neighborhoods like Flushing, Astoria, Elmhurst, etc in Queens or Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, Flatbush, etc in Brooklyn or places like Jersey City, Union City, etc in New Jersey.
It's a weird formula - like you want to see the city you are in succeed, which means an increase of jobs and maybe in Chicago's sake you don't want to see it increase ONLY downtown - but then you're against gentrification and don't want "those people" to live in your neighborhood to gentrify it...which kind of forces many people to just pile into the same neighborhoods. But then you want your neighborhood to succeed, but not as many people want to move to it. So the jobs you want are ones that used to be there in the neighborhoods, and some have returned, but they aren't going to return like they were before. And just because someone is making "only" $40K doesn't mean they aren't a gentrifier either. It's just a weird situation to me. You can't have it all easily.