People: We want to live in this neighborhood because it has cool little bookstores and shops an and restaurants and a genuine culture.

Developers: I got you. *proceeds to bulldoze cool little bookstores and shops and restaurants to put up cheaply made million dollar condos until the area is nothing but soulless housing*

Developers (dusting off hands): My work here is done.

#urbanism

@rk surely you don't mean austin...?

god don't even get me started on how much i hate that fucking city now.

@rothko

I genuinely don’t know of any Western city doing this right.

@rk it's all about the $$$.