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[Thenomain]

Gentrification.

I may be white, male, roughly middle-classed, but man do I fucking hate gentrification.

That is all.

[Ghost]

@Thenomain AGREED.

Here in Az, the area around Arizona State University in Tempe used to have affordable apartments ($800/mo for a 2BR around 2005) around the campus. Since then, those apartments have all been bought out and replaced. Berkshire-Hathaway got involved in real estate there. Now, many of these smaller apartment complexes have been replaced by apartments best described as luxury dorm apartment housing with courtyard pools and salons on the ground level.

A friend of mine tried to see if one was affordable and said they were running about $1400/mo for a 1br.

http://www.tempemetro.com

Rooftop basketball courts. Some 2br are going for $1850/mo

Edit: while the gallery on that site shows some definitely swanky/sexy apartment living, they're definitely cashing in on the $$$ that comes from being able to afford ASU and/or grant money, and gentrifying the ease of access to the campus area.

FFS the stuff around campuses used to be affordable. The whole point was to be able to afford college.

[Thenomain]

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

The whole point was to be able to afford college.

The 90s are gone, man. Gone.

[Auspice]

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

The whole point was to be able to afford college.

The 90s are gone, man. Gone.

Except in Portland.

[mietze]

I love my 40s. No really--they are even better than my 30s, and that was frankly THE best decade of my life so far in every way imaginable!

The one thing I do not love is that I guess something must happen to your inner ears; I used to love roller coasters. Still loved them and scrambler rides and all that stuff in my early 30s when I had the opportunity to go.

Last summer I went on a very tame baby scrambler type ride with all 4 kids and thought I was going to hurl if I tried to open my eyes. I figured that was just part of grumpy old mom stuff.

But today I was teaching my toddler how to pump legs on a swing by swinging in my own seat beside him--and it made me dizzy for like half an hour! Fuck, now I can't SWING without wanting to hurl?!?

At least I still enjoy going down slides...

[Paris]

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Thenomain AGREED.

Here in Az, the area around Arizona State University in Tempe used to have affordable apartments ($800/mo for a 2BR around 2005) around the campus. Since then, those apartments have all been bought out and replaced.

Thst's a shame. I lived about a block behind Mill because it was actually affordable for a young couple to rent there, unlike Mesa, and there was always something to do even if you were mostly broke.

We've often thought about returning, but not at prices like that.

[Catsmeow]

Mesa ---

When I lived there in... well a bit ago.. the only things open at night were AutoZone and Denny's. I did get a police escort out of that Denny's though. So really... AutoZone was open.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

@Paris said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Thenomain AGREED.

Here in Az, the area around Arizona State University in Tempe used to have affordable apartments ($800/mo for a 2BR around 2005) around the campus. Since then, those apartments have all been bought out and replaced.

Thst's a shame. I lived about a block behind Mill because it was actually affordable for a young couple to rent there, unlike Mesa, and there was always something to do even if you were mostly broke.

I'm in Tempe still. Which I love, but it's a different world than when I was going to ASU back in early 00s. I live far enough off the college area that my rent isn't crushing, but it keeps creeping up year by year. I'm trying to save up enough to buy just because, at this point, a mortgage on a decent condo would not be more money than I'm paying in rent each month (and might actually save me bank in a year or two the way things are going). Also, I might as well buy now, because even if I work outside the area I'll clearly never permanently LEAVE (I moved back 'for awhile' like 10 years ago). I need to accept that I cannot quit you, Tempe.

[Tinuviel]

@Paris So I guess you could say... there's trouble at t'mill..?

[Paris]

Tempe really was awesome. We have to stay in Vegas for work and we love it, but we miss Tempe a lot. Shame it's gentrifying, it had a great vibe and affordability.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

@Paris said in RL Anger:

Tempe really was awesome. We have to stay in Vegas for work and we love it, but we miss Tempe a lot. Shame it's gentrifying, it had a great vibe and affordability.

If you can buy, this is a good time. I could get a decent condo for something in the $150k range, in the area where I want to live. Given the way the area's going, I feel like I need to do it within the next couple of years, though. I am saving toward a down payment!

[surreality]

@Three-Eyed-Crow Plus, I think you can get tax deductions for a mortgage, which is also a help in the long run.

[Paris]

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in RL Anger:

@Paris said in RL Anger:

Tempe really was awesome. We have to stay in Vegas for work and we love it, but we miss Tempe a lot. Shame it's gentrifying, it had a great vibe and affordability.

If you can buy, this is a good time. I could get a decent condo for something in the $150k range, in the area where I want to live. Given the way the area's going, I feel like I need to do it within the next couple of years, though. I am saving toward a down payment!

We can't, we're street performers, so our income is all cash and we have to stay in Vegas to work.

[Ghost]

@Catsmeow said in RL Anger:

Mesa ---

When I lived there in... well a bit ago.. the only things open at night were AutoZone and Denny's. I did get a police escort out of that Denny's though. So really... AutoZone was open.

Those Tempe Metro apartments, for the record, are on the corner of Apache and McLintock, right across the street from the Auto Zone. LOL.

I mean, its not even a decent part of Tempe but it used to just be an AutoZone, a Fire Station, a Middle Eastern grocery, and a bunch of dingy bars. Now they're apartments with greater than mortgage prices.

[surreality]

@Ghost There's a place like this where we are. They tore down the (much needed because there's not a lot of it around here) small low-income housing to put up grossly overpriced townhouses that look so cookie-cutter it's atrocious. They're incredibly cramped together, barely have parking to speak of, are smaller than the average area home, and almost twice the average home price. It's so beyond stupid it boggles the mind.

[Auspice]

Apparently a poor diet makes you gay. What the shit.

(It's a self-published 'study' but jesus christ people.)

[Cupcake]

Does anyone else find it interesting that the MRA's screaming about other people being snowflakes who need a safe space are suddenly crying and winging that they can't into ladies only charity viewings of Wonder Woman?

I mean, this part makes me laugh, but the whole thing makes me angry.

[Jim Nanban]

@Cupcake If by "interesting" you mean "droll and pointless childish horseshit on all sides," then yes.

[Cupcake]

@Jim-Nanban That would imply I consider ladies only charity viewings of Wonder Woman to be horseshit, which I don't. But the folks (mostly men, some women) who cry about how it's horrible sexist segregation both amuse me and make me tired.

[Jim Nanban]

@Cupcake How awful that 50% of people might be able to watch a movie together without the other 50% around. How awful that 50% might have to endure watching a movie with the other 50%.

I mean really? This is where we're at--the third grade? Fuck's sake, Sweet Meteor of Death can't come fast enough.