The French Tech came over and bought up my old neighborhood and the prices sky-rocketed.
It is interesting hearing you say this. My immediate reaction was to have little sympathy for urban people who have to move. I see city dwellers as people who have shallow roots and thus little to lose if they shift from place to place. Everything I have read tells me that they celebrate mobility and openness to outsiders and a constant influx of new people around them, and that they not only welcome this culture for themselves but wish to impose it on everyone else. And yet my personal observation is that urban people do in fact feel strong affection for their particular neighbourhood within the city, and can be just as hostile to external forces as other folk. It is as if the 'openness' story is to some extent a story you tell yourselves to try to convince yourselves. Maybe to try to make the constant barrage of strangers and change a little more bearable?
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It is interesting hearing you say this. My immediate reaction was to have little sympathy for urban people who have to move. I see city dwellers as people who have shallow roots and thus little to lose if they shift from place to place. Everything I have read tells me that they celebrate mobility and openness to outsiders and a constant influx of new people around them, and that they not only welcome this culture for themselves but wish to impose it on everyone else. And yet my personal observation is that urban people do in fact feel strong affection for their particular neighbourhood within the city, and can be just as hostile to external forces as other folk. It is as if the 'openness' story is to some extent a story you tell yourselves to try to convince yourselves. Maybe to try to make the constant barrage of strangers and change a little more bearable?