07-31-2015, 03:20 PM
quote:People seem to be using the word gentrification without understanding its definition. Gentrification is the buying and renovating of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by wealthier individuals
Originally posted by terracore
Talk about your gentrification
This isn't happening that much in Puna. More often, people buy homes and abandon them for one reason or another. That is ghettofication, housing increasingly occupied by lower income people, if anything. People either bought their lot by visiting it first or just going by it while renting elsewhere or off the internet. A few years ago, PW was flooded with people wanting to know where the absolute cheapskate, penny pinching, skinflint lots could be found. It took a few years for many to realize cheap doesn't mean good, and in fact, usually means crap. If they are complaining about roads now, then they didn't do their homework then. As a former professor used to say on almost a weekly basis, "Snooze, you lose".
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