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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Steven Sanders moving in was a clear sign of gentrification for his (probably former) neighbors lol:
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LOL, yeah.
Most people seem to be too self-unaware to realize that we're all just links in the chain.
Change is the only constant.
My neighborhood has been slow-track gentrifying for decades. and it's continuing.
When we moved in 6 years ago, we were part of that story, and with the pandemic real estate inflation, we now couldn't even comfortably afford to purchase the home we live in here.
Thank god we bought vs. renting!!! In just those six years, we've already had to say good-bye to two neighbor friends on our block who were renting that had to move out because of the rising tide.
According to neighborhood lore, back in the 90s our 3-flat was the "drug house" of the block, the source of all kinds of trouble and anti-social disorder on the block. The local public elementary school was 85+% low-income back then. Middle class families pretty much only sent their kids to one of the two nearby Catholic schools.
Now our three-flat is occupied by three normal, non-drug families, and our local school is now only 20% low-income. Middle class people have no qualms sending their kids there now.
A little while ago new neighbors moved into a SFH across the street for $1.5M (which I know doesn't even get you an outhouse in the coastal cities anymore, but in Chicago that's still meaningfully expensive), and they send their two kids to the public school. That would've been completely unthinkable for an upper middle class family in the neighborhood 3 decades ago.
To steal from the great Steven Wright:
"oh shit, here comes the neighborhood"
Now if these morons would just stop fucking painting face brick!!!!