The Living Ain’t Easy: Gentrification Failure?
So a friend of mine lives in this pretty nice place in College Park and it prompted me to re-evaluated the new complexes in the area. We're not here to talk about my friend's place.
Recently, Laurel has been going through a purging of sorts. It's valiantly trying to upscale itself and consequently push out the majority of it's lower class residents. Unfortunately, for the new people coming in, all the old citizens haven't been relocated yet. Which brought about a few minor complaints from the Westchester crew:
"Men beating their wives/girlfriends. A lady attacked behind one of the buildings. A drug bust early this year. Yes Folks!! You can get all this and more for the starting price of $1400.00!!"
It's seems like building shiny new buildings does little to change the neighborhood. I always wondered how things were progressing just over the line. Now I know: not as well as could be. Based on these comments, I'm confident living in Camden @ College Park is a lot better. I'm still not looking forward to finding my own place. I wonder if living in Baltimore for $1400/mo. gets you the same sort of color?