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Anonymous asked: \"Welcome To Paradise\" is about getting used to a \"shitty area\" and finding you actually enjoy living there after a while, not gentrification. Even after the writer says they like the place they live in, they emphasise that it's still a crappy area, with cracked streets and broken homes. It's from the time period where the author lived in an old abandoned warehouse in the shitty part of Oakland with a bunch of other people.
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poipoipoi-2016:

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kontextmaschine:

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schpeelah:

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kontextmaschine:

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After six months and he made it his home, you think he assimilated to shooting people down at the station?

\nLike, I have NO IDEA how you\u2019re constructing \u201cyoung artists living in a warehouse in a shitty part of Oakland\u201d as distinct from \u201cgentrification\u201d

How is \u201cyoung artists living in a warehouse in a shitty part of Oakland\u201d even remotely related to the process of turning a poor neighborhood into a rich neighborhood?

\n\ndude, seriously?
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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\u2019s literally one of the two routes to gentrification.

/Which implicitly makes the neighborhood no longer fun, but.

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Yeah at least since SoHo in the ‘70s, “artists move into obsolete industrial spaces” has been prototypical first-wave gentrification

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