RE: Please Pardon Our Mess, Gentrification In Progress
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Years ago I took this photo of some graffiti on the abandoned hospital in my neighborhood:
At the time I thought it was funny because I had been living down the block from abandoned buildings for some time.
Since then, they have developed most of the land ...and my rent has doubled.
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Don't you hate it when the joke turns out to be on you? That sucks. The last place I lived in this neighborhood we'd gotten lucky in having an absentee landlord who had no clue about the gentrification. A few months after I moved out my old roommates got the boot, I guess the landlord wised up and decided to cash in, wouldn't renew the lease so he could sell the place. It's a nice catch-22, you'd rather not have the abandoned stuff but the effects of new stuff coming in are usually worse.