"Welcome To Paradise" is about getting used to a "shitty area" and finding you actually enjoy living there after a while, not...
dude, seriously?After six months and he made it his home, you think he assimilated to shooting people down at the station?
Like, I have NO IDEA how you’re constructing “young artists living in a warehouse in a shitty part of Oakland” as distinct from “gentrification”How is “young artists living in a warehouse in a shitty part of Oakland” even remotely related to the process of turning a poor neighborhood into a rich neighborhood?
Poor artist types drive out poor crime-prone types in the process of seeking cheap rents, are replaced by rich non-artsy types looking for easy commutes in fun, safe neighborhoods.
That’s literally one of the two routes to gentrification.
/Which implicitly makes the neighborhood no longer fun, but.
Yeah at least since SoHo in the ‘70s, “artists move into obsolete industrial spaces” has been prototypical first-wave gentrification