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I hate it. Mexicans and white people took over my old blocc. No more summer blocc parties, car shows, random cookouts, basketball games or any of that. Turned the courts into a dog park/spa, I was hoooooottttttttt.
RIP to "da hood" ? educated young adults moving back to the inter city
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Gentrifiers are devoid of culture, but that's not why I'm anti-gentrification. When they move in, they cause the quality of living to increase exponentially. 2-3K rent in my neighborhood was unheard of five years ago. Middle class families are being slowly pushed out of neighborhoods they've lived in. I won't be able to live in the city I grew up in when I finally move out of my parents place. I'll have to live in Jersey where its affordable. Those who live in Section 8 and public housing aren't affected. Additionally, they cause an increased police presence which treats the residents like second class citizens all for the gentrifiers protection and safety. These same police were nowhere to be found before they moved in. Our safety and protection was never a priority until the money moved in.
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PG county is only going to get worse.
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Its like they're just building condo's EVERYWHERE in DC and Arlington.
id say yes and no on the PG county thing. Western PG county will be booming with the addition of the purple and is going to bring it a lot of development, even though that wont be finished for another 10 years or so. its supposed to run from Lanham to Bethesda so you will have people living in those areas. the East West highway and university blvd PG sections are going to see a lot of new projects, especially Langley Park where i think the main hub is going to be built.
also look at all the development going on in downtown College Park/route 1 section what is going on with the Art District in hyattsville. PG Plaza is being built up too.
Mt Rainier wants to develop their little downtown area too
http://www.cnu.org/resources/projects/mount-rainier-mixed-use-town-center-development-plan-2012
Western PG county is seeing lots of development. i dont know too much about the southern portions of PG county but i think that is one of the places where people displaced by the District's gentrification will move to.
I live in Clinton, So I'm definitely a good distance away from all of the development.
Its weird because they are building up the national harbor area and doing all the casino's and outlet malls in Southern PG and also developing up the areas you just pointed out. So where are the people who are being kicked out of DC going? Capital heights, Seat Pleasant, Suitland, etc?
I'm happy they are building up PG though man. Maryland gets such a bad rap from people in VA, and PG gets no love from other parts of Maryland. When someone brings up PG they say "ew"
Like wtf does that mean?We need to build up our community
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I didn't know the purple was going to Lanham, so thanks for the info. on that. Also, great insight on the rest of the information you posted as well.id say yes and no on the PG county thing. Western PG county will be booming with the addition of the purple and is going to bring it a lot of development, even though that wont be finished for another 10 years or so. its supposed to run from Lanham to Bethesda so you will have people living in those areas. the East West highway and university blvd PG sections are going to see a lot of new projects, especially Langley Park where i think the main hub is going to be built.PG county is only going to get worse.
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Its like they're just building condo's EVERYWHERE in DC and Arlington.
also look at all the development going on in downtown College Park/route 1 section what is going on with the Art District in hyattsville. PG Plaza is being built up too.
Mt Rainier wants to develop their little downtown area too
http://www.cnu.org/resources/projects/mount-rainier-mixed-use-town-center-development-plan-2012
Western PG county is seeing lots of development. i dont know too much about the southern portions of PG county but i think that is one of the places where people displaced by the District's gentrification will move to.
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mane at this one court they took down all the rims except one ...the majority of the time its ppl playing soccer or other random stuff that has nothing to do with bball...they basically drove out the ppl who go there to ball and you know who thoe ppl were :\
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......what's the inter city?
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Nobody wants to move to the hood in the south. NOBODY
People in the hood dont even want to live in the hood lol
If theys educated, they know not to come back to dat bish
Gentrification dont exist round here xcept for maybe the brokest of college students that decide to move to the outskirts of mordor.
People in the hood dont even want to live in the hood lol
If theys educated, they know not to come back to dat bish
Gentrification dont exist round here xcept for maybe the brokest of college students that decide to move to the outskirts of mordor.
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woops correction meant from New Carrollton to Bethesda didnt want to give the wrong info.
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thats cuz for the most part due to cities down south being more spread out, yall hoods be out the way anyway and dont got some of the amenities and conveniences that ppl moving back into the city are looking for
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NYC b da greatest city in da world
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until they take a flight to an asian country and be mind blown no NK
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this. interestingly, i find that people from outside nyc consider nyc to be manhattan. while new yorkers consider all 5 boros to be nyc. am i the only one?
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Tokyo and Hong Kong.....I've heard nothing but good things.
The homogeneity in the population is a turn off though. Good for a visit, not to live (especially if you're not asian).
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I"d love to live in a slopeside condo at Vail. Unfortunately I can't afford it.
I get your argument and I'm not sure I disagree with you but I'm nor sure I fully agree either. Isn't an influx of wealthy people going to improve the neighborhood - raise property values, increase the tax base, etc?
I guess I'm not sure I buy the whole idea that because you grow up in a neighborhood you are entitled to live there affordably forever. Part of growing up is making sacrifices and making astute financial decisions. My thoughts aren't fully formed on this so I'd welcome some more insight from you or others.
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In this thread, OP has never heard of hipsters.
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One of the rate times that you are on point
Do long as they leave Dyckman as is...I like my rachet Hispanic women flooding the streets in cropped tops and high rise shorts...
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Urbanization is one of the biggest macro trends occurring right now and into the foreseeable future. United Nations Population studies showed that in 2008, for the first time ever, more people on the planet lived in cities than in rural areas. What's really staggering is the rate at which industrialization and the rise of the global economy sped up that move toward cities.
Recent economic dips aside, there is a growing boom in the global middle class, and more specifically a generation of younger, more affluent global citizens that want to be in (or at the least, very very near) to true global hubs like NYC, SF, LA, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Paris etc etc
Many of these cities are old and have come very very close to maximizing the space available for rent. As supply of new living spaces stay flat (or go down, in the case of city dwellers staying put in rent-controlled spaces) and the influx of residents goes up, demand is far outpacing supply...so rent will be higher and higher in these megacities.
This means that a lot of "overflow", or people who cannot find / cannot afford spaces in that city are looking to move to traditionally lower income neighborhoods in the immediate vicinity...Brooklyn is a perfect example of the "overflow" from Manhattan that has completely and utterly (and some say devastatingly) transformed what was a very, very different neighborhood even as little as 10 years ago.
Recent economic dips aside, there is a growing boom in the global middle class, and more specifically a generation of younger, more affluent global citizens that want to be in (or at the least, very very near) to true global hubs like NYC, SF, LA, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Paris etc etc
Many of these cities are old and have come very very close to maximizing the space available for rent. As supply of new living spaces stay flat (or go down, in the case of city dwellers staying put in rent-controlled spaces) and the influx of residents goes up, demand is far outpacing supply...so rent will be higher and higher in these megacities.
This means that a lot of "overflow", or people who cannot find / cannot afford spaces in that city are looking to move to traditionally lower income neighborhoods in the immediate vicinity...Brooklyn is a perfect example of the "overflow" from Manhattan that has completely and utterly (and some say devastatingly) transformed what was a very, very different neighborhood even as little as 10 years ago.
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I appreciate the honesty
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Yup.
Hyattsville/CP area are going to be fine, so is Mt. Rainer. Bowie and Lanham will probably stay the same also. But Southern PG (Temple Hills, Ft. Wash, Suitland) will just continue to go down hill.
Something else I noticed, the actual cities/towns in PG (Hyattsville, CP, Bowie, Riverdale Park, Mt. Rainer) generally have lower average crime than unicorporated areas. Most of the crime that goes on in the county occurs in these unincorporated areas, why that is? I'm not sure. But I think it has something to do with sanctions on how much low-income housing can be built and police response time. Correct me if i'm wrong tho.
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You need to visit other metropolitan areas, most are nothing close nor are they trying to be like the self-proclaimed "best city in da world".
I'm all for gentrification, eat or be eaten, no dambs.
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lmao wynwood done took complete 180 , opa locka and lil haiti is next
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Lil Havana and Overtown currently in progress...Lil Haiti's happening. I think Opa Locka is too out the way for gentrification, kinda why it only happened in Overtown/Lil Havana/Wynwood and didn't move up into Liberty City and Brownsub....if you look in the nice parts of Biscayne n all that you can still find some low income high rises, which is how I'll be able to slide off in there n holla at them yuppie guhlz walking small puppies
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Modern day redlining.
I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up attempting to push allminorities poor people to South Dakota or something.
I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up attempting to push all