rolyatm97 t1_j9hy4ri wrote
If you don’t think gentrification is a good thing, how can you think immigration is a good thing? The members of this community seem to be 1st or 2nd generation immigrants. They immigrated and changed a neighborhood. People see an opportunity to buy property in a nice neighborhood and move in. What’s the difference?
Gentrification is immigration plain and simple. You are either for both or neither.
Coomer-Boomer t1_j9qvff4 wrote
They're very different - two reasons, not exhaustive. First, immigration doesn't force natives to leave in the way gentrification opponents claim gentrification does. It's not the moving in people dislike about gentrification, but being pushed out.
Second, nationalism is legitimate in a way localism isn't. The borders of a part of town are frivolous compared to the borders of nations, both in practical respects and in terms of normal human bonds. Ironically, the opponent of gentrification is the person with the least solidarity - the fortunes of his neighborhood and neighbors improve but all he does is moan "Me, me, me!" Is it any wonder their neighbors are glad to trade the pro-squalor activists in for people who are pro-improvement?
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