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New Jersey

elleng

(130,908 posts) Sat Jun 17, 2017, 12:54 AM Jun 2017

Not Your Mothers Jersey Shore

Five years after Hurricane Sandy destroyed communities along the shore,
some towns have used the rebuilding process as a time to reinvent themselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/realestate/hurricane-sandy-rebuilding-jersey-shore-towns.html?

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Not Your Mothers Jersey Shore (Original Post) elleng Jun 2017 OP

so those pesky poor people got washed away and now the wealthy are gentrifying the neighborhood nt msongs Jun 2017 #1

Money and power Lotusflower70 Jun 2017 #2

msongs

(67,406 posts)

1. so those pesky poor people got washed away and now the wealthy are gentrifying the neighborhood nt

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Sat Jun 17, 2017, 01:07 AM

Jun 2017

Lotusflower70

(3,077 posts)

2. Money and power

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Sat Jun 17, 2017, 01:55 AM

Jun 2017

“Before, it was mostly a blue-collar community where houses were passed down from one generation to the next and people weren’t doing a lot of major improvements. We’ve got a whole different thing going on here now, with 3,000- to 4,000-square-foot houses going up.”

So the history and flavor is gone and the generic blandness and snobbery has taken over.

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