Gentrification is so crazy. It had stopped in my neighborhood thanks to COVID, but now it’s back.
It makes a total of zero sense. Look:
- Restaurants: they added like 5 of them, with valet parking and shit. There’s a new Thai joint with a $40 noodle soup. Just typing this makes me angry.
- Offices: it’s 2022, people don’t care about no offices, and they still offer those while homelessness is rampant. I drive at night looking at those brightly lit brand new cubicles, chairs and desks. Not a soul in sight around. Same in the morning. It’s fucking embarrassing.
- Housing: they take years to complete shitty apartments with $3K/month rents that no one really wants at all.
- Community: they make a bike lane larger than an 18-wheeler with about a bicycle every 4 days on it. Due to this absolutely stupid design, traffic jam and road rage exploded.
All of that costs a lot of money and doesn’t bring much, if any. Sometimes I really feel like those investments are just money laundering processes, nothing else. They don’t care about people, places and communities. It’s just financial dump.