Hippies fighting Nerds - SF eating their own

[hatidua]

Sucks if you've lived in a place for a long time, then the times change, your spot becomes *hip* and the landlord gets bought out and suddenly your $1,000/mo bedroom goes for $2,000/mo.

It's a very common theme though. SoHo, NYC in 1980 had bums & addicts sleeping in doorways....but these were often the only places the artists could afford studios. SoHo, NYC in 1990, just ten years later was the hip part of town with all manner of galleries and designer boutiques, especially down on West Broadway. This phenomena exists in just about every major city: find a section of town with large industrial lofts, get a bunch of illustrators/painters/Etc. to rent those lofts....move ahead ten years and it's thrice the price having now been 'gentrified'.

[KestrelBike]

It's a very common theme though. SoHo, NYC in 1980 had bums & addicts sleeping in doorways....but these were often the only places the artists could afford studios. SoHo, NYC in 1990, just ten years later was the hip part of town with all manner of galleries and designer boutiques, especially down on West Broadway. This phenomena exists in just about every major city: find a section of town with large industrial lofts, get a bunch of illustrators/painters/Etc. to rent those lofts....move ahead ten years and it's thrice the price having now been 'gentrified'.

Yeah definitely. I was born and grew up in SoCal, but unless I had become a lawyer or a doctor, there's absolutely no way I would be able to afford a house unless I lived in Staba-Ana (santa ana), or a place way to the east that required a 2+hr one-way commute. (And forget about public transportation 'infrastructure'). Does it put a sour taste in my mouth? Sure, but that's the Market and it survives solely on the life that buyers/sellers put into it.

Frankly, I think that the very nature of the hustle and bustle it takes to afford that housing attracts a lot of assholes, and it's not something I want to be around in the first place. They earn the huge salaries, good for them, but I don't want to live beholden to that kind of thing.