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Originally Posted by Crawford
Yes. I could pull up NYT articles from, say 1980, with New Yorkers swearing that gentrification was out of control and all the poor were doomed. It's just that the core zone of affluence has expanded.
The discussion about crime/chaos/urban decline is essentially irrelevant. The why doesn't matter. The fact is that there were many upper income households in the largest U.S. cities in the 60's, 70's and 80's (and I would wager, in some cases, a higher proportion of metropolitan wealth was in the core 40 years ago than today).
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also, crazy-ass violent crime and chaos can simultaneously co-exist in a city that's also going through rapid gentrification/demographic changes as well.
just look at chicago 2018.
the human mind's natural inclination towards binary thinking often clouds us into believing that things can only be one way or the other, when they're often both.