Snoo_97625 t1_iu096y3 wrote
Reply to comment by Maxpowr9 in ‘A 24-hour neighborhood’: Wu outlines plans to bring downtown Boston back to life - The Boston Globe by TouchDownBurrito
Put all the luxury housing in the financial district so the rest of us can have our neighborhoods back
crazicus t1_iu19scr wrote
Every neighborhood needs to change to adapt to a growing city, and no single neighborhood should bear the burden of all of the change needed.
No_Judge_3817 t1_iu0pwdb wrote
"the rest of us can have our neighborhood back" way to gatekeep Boston and shit on transplants, sorry my life wasn't hard enough to meet your gritty standards of a true Boston resident
gravitas-deficiency t1_iu0x5o4 wrote
I’m honestly not even sure what you’re being butthurt about.
LinkLT3 t1_iu0ywar wrote
They’re not talking about people moving to Boston, weirdo. They’re talking about tearing down sections of neighborhoods to build overpriced “luxury” condos that force people out of their neighborhood. You not having a gritty life doesn’t mean you can’t move to the city, but it doesn’t mean you can push the people already there out either.
TouchDownBurrito OP t1_iu0zsg9 wrote
> standards of a true Boston resident
>flair says Somerville
Don’t mean to gatekeep but I’d say the requirements would, at a minimum, include actually living in the city limits of Boston…
Snoo_97625 t1_iu170a2 wrote
Wonder if that guy even remembers when Somerville was 'gritty'
FitzwilliamTDarcy t1_iu174iv wrote
>Most office workers have been priced so far out of Boston they were commuting 4+ hours a day to the Financial District
That's a little disingenuous in a thread where the initial comment says "Most office workers have been priced so far out of Boston they were commuting 4+ hours a day to the Financial District"
TouchDownBurrito OP t1_iu1o5py wrote
Not when Somerville rivals some of Boston’s more expensive neighborhoods in price.
FitzwilliamTDarcy t1_iu4wvi9 wrote
Huh? You were gatekeeping the guy by saying more or less that being a Boston resident was a requirement. I pointed out that this part of thread is explicitly about people having been priced out of Boston, the implication being that no, other people (non Boston residents) get to play too.
Not remotely sure what Somerville's cost has to do with the price of fish except bolstering the point made at the top of this thread that people have been priced out of Boston.
TouchDownBurrito OP t1_iu4y4mn wrote
> You were gatekeeping the guy by saying more or less that being a Boston resident was a requirement.
Yes, living in the city of Boston is a requirement for calling yourself a Boston resident. Idk how that is controversial.
> Not remotely sure what Somerville’s cost has to do with the price of fish except bolstering the point made at the top of this thread that people have been priced out of Boston.
If they can afford to live in Somerville they haven’t been “priced out” of Boston. The median rent in Somerville is $3k a month, that’s higher than a great deal of, if not most, neighborhoods is Boston.
abhikavi t1_iu1crr8 wrote
> [shitting on] luxury housing
> gatekeep Boston and shit on transplants
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Snoo_97625 t1_iu17gnk wrote
I have no problems with immigrants who came here looking for a better life. Especially if they came from a country that we couped or destabilized. I DO have a problem with Amazon engineers from California who make 5x what I make renting these shitty apartments for twice what they're worth just because they can
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