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I thought long and hard about making this thread and finally decided to do so. I dont post much so bare with my grammitcal errors and so forth. I have lived in Brooklyn all 26 years of my life, bushwick specifically. I went to school and worked all of my job within the area. In recent years the over all climate of the neighborhood has changed. Gentrification has def been in full swing for quite sometime however in my younger years probably wasnt fully grasped. Not for nothing growing up there were always white folk living in my area. Not to come across the wrong way but the type of white folk you would see would generally be those of urban original " white trash" so to speak that wouldnt stick out as much different as the rest of the people living within Bushwick,predominantly hispanics. A quick google search would provide a more indept history of bushwick but in short within the years i have lived, Bushwick has always been a low class,crime ridden neighborhood with generations of families having been living here. In the last few years though all of that has stopped. As i got older and started to be more receptive i realised that more and more hipsters started to move in. factories that sat abandoned for years were now becomming lofts at triple digit prices. Bohemian people filled with tatoos and dressed in torn clothing walking the streets became the norm. Hell even the corner Bodegas now stock moe than just coronas ,but other beers like pabst thats years before they would have never stocked along wit tofu. Personally the issue at hand didnt really hit the fan for me till i started apartment searching and see that ever apartment taken in my area were being rented by hipsters for through the roof prices. Suddenly Bushwick is the new "in" place to be. I cant speak on williamburg because thats long been gentrified before my time, thats a whole other story. I can somwwhat speak in terms of bushwick because i remember how terrible things were in the late ninties when i was a kid. In my opinion the influx of all these out of towners make it hard for my age group to prosper because it raises the value of this once forgotten area to prices one cannot afford. I see this not only going on in Bushwick but alot of other areas of brooklyn such as brownsville, canarsie, east new york etc... What are your thoughts? How do you Feel?
