"Whynatte, man!"

Ok so here we go. I was sitting in the coffee shop listening to a meeting between people who are going to 'turn this neighborhood around'.
"Yea we are gonna make this the next SoHo, Williamsburg, East Village."
Because these are the ONLY places that matter in the universe and god damn if the area can have it's OWN identity. No we don't want to remember the time when the 4th ward was a scary place and the highway fucked up the beautiful flow of the area. No we don't want to know that people are actually living here and have been for generations and have always wanted some attention but didn't get it until it was considered the hippest new cool place in town.
fuck.