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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 12:33 PM Mar 2015

You know you’re in a gentrified neighborhood when …

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2015/03/21/you-know-youre-in-a-gentrified-neighborhood-when/

A year ago, when Google bus protests were garnering national attention, gentrification was a scalding-hot topic in San Francisco. Though the rhetoric has died down a bit, the signs of class conflict are still prevalent, whether it’s complaints about astronomical rent or outrage over another longtime neighborhood establishment being bulldozed for luxury condos.

Some Bay Area neighborhoods have been gentrified to the point that they resemble a monotonous yuppie land devoid of character and lacking any remnants of the essence that used to define it. In other areas, the seemingly unstoppable march of affluence is just starting to progress block by block.

The slideshow above is a compilation of signs of gentrification in San Francisco. Share your thoughts about what should be added in the comments.


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You know you’re in a gentrified neighborhood when … (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP
Only in the slightest related: DetlefK Mar 2015 #1

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. Only in the slightest related:
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 12:55 PM
Mar 2015

Last week or so I read an article about two brothers making craft-chocolate in the US. (Try to guess whether they have ridiculously huge beards and mustaches. Come on. Guess.)
Pretty much everybody (from the big chocolate stores, to a sizable fraction of participants in their tastings, to the journalist writing the article) agrees that their chocolate is... meh. It's different from "mainstream"-chocolate, but it has a chalky texture and a mediocre taste.
But the business of these brothers is doing well.
Because they sell craft-chocolate that doesn't taste like what the chocolate industry made you think chocolate should taste like.

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