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Gentrification

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Process of urban transformation where working-class neighborhoods become expensive and exclusive, discussed in the context of Boston's complete transformation from blue collar to tech/finance hub.

Mentions (9)
"I love gentrification and silly 3rd wave cafés. I love being around affluent yuppies who don't make a lot of noise and don't scream and yell at 3 am on the street because they have to get up for spin class at 8 am. I love when the money pours in and greens the food deserts."
I'm an unabashed urban elitist · u/Glass_Vat_Of_Slime · ↑925 · 2025-07-05
"The poor ppl getting kicked out generally have shit taste and the affluent hipsters moving in have good taste. Sorry, just true."
Gentrification is a good thing · u/Johnny2x4andPlank · ↑385 · 2025-06-06
"Growing up, all of the media I saw about Boston always portrayed it as this tough blue collar town with a hard edge but after moving here a few years ago, nothing could be further from the truth. Almost everywhere feels like end-stage gentrification. With housing prices rising across the country, is"
Are more American cities going to end up like Boston? · u/ifeelsofaraway · ↑319 · 2024-06-06
"Slowly forcing the Bodies Experiencing Welfare and the Substance Use Disorder Community out of the prime locations so I can live in a newly renovated 750 sq ft shotgun house with subway tiles and recessed lighting for $580k. I love working my silly little email job so I can hope to one day wave to m"
Idk I think gentrification might be cool and good · u/Lovetoseeitfolks · ↑273 · 2023-03-05
"Local business moving out and long term residents being displaced is bad, I get it. However, I really have a hard time actually giving a shit about it. I kind of like it when new, haute cuisine restaurants move in or when there's more cafes that I can't sit at for hours sipping on a $7 drink."
I don't care about gentrification · u/Turbulent-Lie-2240 · ↑126 · 2024-08-14
"like it's either ok to move out of your home in search of a better life and invariably change the culture or it's not? how is chinatown not gentrification but when white girls move out of ohio and change their new respective neighborhoods it's a problem? i don't really understand why in a country la"
"I asked her what she thought about my fiancee and I moving in (two white gay guys with a French bulldog) because I wanted to get her take on the whole gentrification thing. She said that she was thrilled when she met us because she could tell we cared, and was encouraged that the neighborhood was ch"
I Think I'm Becoming a NIMBY · nietzscheistired · ↑81 · 2022-09-27
"Their whole thing is they think that littering is a good way to combat gentrification."
Found a pro-littering group in Portland · u/[deleted] · ↑224 · 2021-10-22
"I was eating Breakfast in front of a park in my hyper-gentrified neighborhood"
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