[Hipster Duck]

I think Christian Lander said it best:
"It returns the neighbourhood to the people who consider themselves to be real residents."

In many US cities, gentrified neighborhoods sprang up from totally devastated areas full of abandoned properties. Does that mean that the rats consider themselves to be the "real" residents?

 

[CDL.TO]

Well, it *technically* hasn't happened yet, but we will in a few months. So we call ourselves husband and wife anyway

Thanks HD.

She's Urban Toronto's own Yoko Ono... stealing one of the most creative members away from the general public.

Anyway, congrats!

 

[Urban Shocker]

If you turn up at the next forum meet with a copy of The Catcher In The Rye should we worry?

 

[SunriseChampion]

In many US cities, gentrified neighborhoods sprang up from totally devastated areas full of abandoned properties. Does that mean that the rats consider themselves to be the "real" residents?

I suppose you could see it that way, though, I'd say that that just means there were no real residents (or few)....and perhaps rightly so.

By "real residents" I think Lander meant (and this is what I mean by using that phrase) people who have a strong and vital connection to their specific place as opposed to those who may have come in to the area as a sort of gaggle of like-minded individuals because that's where everyone was going.