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Originally Posted by craigs
Los Angeles neighborhoods are not gentrified by "dreamers." Young would-be movie stars and immigrant families seeking the American dream don't generally have the money to buy and fix up a home in an up-and-coming neighborhood here.
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Yeah, contra the post you’re replying to, that’s pretty much the case nowhere.
New Orleans, Austin, Portland, Nashville, Brooklyn, had swaths of inner city ghetto with a gritty but decent vibe that were filled in by developers maximizing their profit by buying cheap from landowners seeking an exit from the morass and selling high to the high income professionals that these cities spent the last three decades marketing themselves toward while also simultaneously crowding and pricing out the local artists and vibe-makers who were the reason why these areas were to desirable to developers to gentrify in the first place.
The artists, the gays, and the dreamers pre-date the gentrification and are usually the harbinger of the gentrification to come, not the other way around.
Washington, D.C. is no different. It used to have a fairly decent lgbt bar and club scene, but the city has seen most of them shut down over the last decade.
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