hawc
Senior Member
To me gentrification is also great, for all those reason you listed.
Who wouldn't want less crime, vandalism, prostitution and drug dealing? Who wouldn't want better shops, services and neighbours?
My sister that's who.
Her and her left leaning friends use gentrification as a bad word. It means rich people displacing poor people. It's class warfare. She would also take extreme exception to you calling prostitutes 'whores' and would instead prefer 'sex workers.' No judgement. All work is of equal value. I guess drug dealers are simply independent businessmen.
Of course poor and crime don't need to go together. And poor people certainly don't want crime any more than their middle-class counterparts.
We moved into Cabbagetown about 2 years ago and love it. When we were shopping around we saw similar homes in the Annex and North Toronto going for $200,000 - $300,000 more. It seemed a steal to grab a beautiful Victorian on a tree lined street in the $800,000. Since then it seems hard to find a house in Cabbagetown under a million. I'm not sure if the area is appreciating faster than the rest of Toronto or if a rising tide is lifting all boats so to speak.
Before Cabbagetown I lived in loft on Sorauren. It was a converted hard loft that was originally full of poorer artists and so on. They decried the yuppy scum that was moving in and displacing them. Pushing the working poor further out to the fringes of society.
Maybe I'm just seeing things from my privileged middle-class perspective, but to me it's a good thing when neighbourhoods improve.
Who wouldn't want less crime, vandalism, prostitution and drug dealing? Who wouldn't want better shops, services and neighbours?
My sister that's who.
Her and her left leaning friends use gentrification as a bad word. It means rich people displacing poor people. It's class warfare. She would also take extreme exception to you calling prostitutes 'whores' and would instead prefer 'sex workers.' No judgement. All work is of equal value. I guess drug dealers are simply independent businessmen.
Of course poor and crime don't need to go together. And poor people certainly don't want crime any more than their middle-class counterparts.
We moved into Cabbagetown about 2 years ago and love it. When we were shopping around we saw similar homes in the Annex and North Toronto going for $200,000 - $300,000 more. It seemed a steal to grab a beautiful Victorian on a tree lined street in the $800,000. Since then it seems hard to find a house in Cabbagetown under a million. I'm not sure if the area is appreciating faster than the rest of Toronto or if a rising tide is lifting all boats so to speak.
Before Cabbagetown I lived in loft on Sorauren. It was a converted hard loft that was originally full of poorer artists and so on. They decried the yuppy scum that was moving in and displacing them. Pushing the working poor further out to the fringes of society.
Maybe I'm just seeing things from my privileged middle-class perspective, but to me it's a good thing when neighbourhoods improve.
