Pretty much. From what I read on the website, they’ve made large swaths of Brooklyn unaffordable for the people who live there. There’s a couple of districts in Prague that are like that, but that’s far from me. In Prague, it’s expats who’ve priced the locals out of the market.
Some of my Portland, OR friends e-mail me complaining about the hipsters up there doing much the same as they’ve done to Brooklyn, and yeah, hipsters are annoying. They’ve been around awhile; I remember ‘proto-hipsters’ in Portland in the mid-90s when I lived there, in the Pearl District before it was all gentrified. They were just as pretentious then as they are now. Trust-fund babies, mostly.
IMO, and I think reality bears it out, are the logical conclusion of “You are special” being force fed every kid at home/in school since the 90s.
Why WOULDN’T they do the crap they do? They were taught to do and to BE exactly that. Selfish things that care for nothing around them. Only the ‘self’.
Not that I think that’s OK, just that I understand how they ended up the way they did. And since mom and dad created them (in all ways) they will continue to fund their excesses rather than admit their liberalism destroyed their children...and multiple cities across the planet.