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If you weren’t already convinced that city life is becoming increasingly preferable to suburban life, see this article in The New Republic, which looks at a trend called “demographic inversion”&#8212a reversal of the white flight that helped hollow out the inner city beginning in the 1950s. The author quantifies what many Brooklynites already know: the neighborhoods closest to vocational and cultural hubs (like, dare we say, Manhattan) and with shopping and services in walking distance are the most popular, forcing poorer folks to move further and further out. There’s been plenty of talk about the suburbs potentially turning into 21st century slums but what will 21st century cities look like if demographic inversion continues? “In the worst case, demographic inversion would result in the poor living out of sight and largely forgotten in some new kind of high-rise projects beyond the city border, with the wealthy huddled in gated enclaves in the center.”
Trading Places [The New Republic]
Beyond Gentrification [Curbed]
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  1. Man this is like the Dave/Bold Face Guest Dust-up….

    Here is What pretending to “respond” to DOW….note the fact that he can actually write in complete, appropriately punctuated sentences with proper spelling. There is no doubt in my mind that they are one and the same.

    “Sadly DOW8000SP800 they wont get it until it’s too late. Do you want to read a good book this weekend? Please buy Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises by Charles P. Kindleberger.. I’m not trying to get anyone on my side but I think people should read this book.

    I’m on the first chapter and it feels like now. The same things that went down in other Bubbles/Crashes are here right now. I think we have wasted plenty of capital on bullshit and maybe we will never get this chance again. RIP Mutant Asset Bubble….”

    And if you were sad that we won’t “get it” until its too late you would make some constructive recommendations about what we should do to avoid the catastrophe you predict. So what is it What? What should we do. Please answer as DOW8000 as you make a bit more sense in that guise usually. Thanks.

  2. DOW—you don’t help your defense with this kind of ass kissing.

    DOW8000SP800 said: “The What – your post @ 12:46 PM was absolutely brilliant. I nominate it for The Pulitzer Prize.”

    Every thread today includes a little cheering section between you and the What which leads me to believe that you are one and the same. Judging from how The What can write and type in accurate English in one post and then devolve into faux jibberish the next, I suspect that you are merely The What using better grammar. You often use the same sorts of formulations in your posts and also are prone to the cute “…” ending that Twat uses.

  3. “The What – your post @ 12:46 PM was absolutely brilliant. I nominate it for The Pulitzer Prize.”

    Sadly DOW8000SP800 they wont get it until it’s too late. Do you want to read a good book this weekend? Please buy Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises by Charles P. Kindleberger.. I’m not trying to get anyone on my side but I think people should read this book.

    I’m on the first chapter and it feels like now. The same things that went down in other Bubbles/Crashes are here right now. I think we have wasted plenty of capital on bullshit and maybe we will never get this chance again. RIP Mutant Asset Bubble….

    The What

    Someday this war is gonna end…

  4. “DOW8000=The What’s sockpuppet”

    That’s right. D-ridin’ The What all day. Kind of like the New York Mag article. Kind of like those who can’t help but to respond to him. Kind of like you.

  5. “I was in Bed Stuy scumming out your wife while you was at work. I slipped you little loud brat sleeping pills and bang the living daylights out of you wife. She told me “once you have black you can’t never go back”!”

    I am neither married nor do I have children. Nice try.

    “Nope I’m of welfare”

    Finally, you tell the truth.

  6. I have to say, based on my own personal current experience with well-off unionized white working class (by that I mean folx who easily make 75k and who can make over 100k)that they don’t want to live in the city. And the ones who do live on SI. I wouldn’t call it overt racism but they want to have kids and they don’t want to send their kids to city schools. And since they are often traditional and want their wives to stay home, or need them to stay home w 4 kids, they’re really not that well off at all. That means they can’t afford to live in the close-in burbs, they live in the Poconos or Rockland/Orange counties. The new home of Benson’s working middle class.

    In spite of my wife and I yelling at our brother-in-law about this, (he works for ConEd) he is attempting to sell his perfectly nice Tudor home in Jackson Heights and he is buying in some new development way the f*ck up by Bear Mountain. He can’t get it thru his head how much more in real money it’s gonna cost him to live there.

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