Maybe the re-emergent goblins will cause the annoying hipster douches from Middle America (red states, STOP sending NYC your obnoxiously smug/dysfunctional children!) who are pouring into my soon to be neighborhood. It was better off as a Greek/Latino/Italian/South Asian backwater. Now, the skinny jeans and Che t-shirt wearing Nilla wafers with the Whole Foods bags (can't shop locally, can you, friggin hippy-crates), will finally have to grow some balls or go crying back to mommy and daddy.
WTC, I believe you had some excellent commentary on a similar thread a few weeks back.
"WILL" the recession make cities dangerous again? "WILL"?
Where has this guy been? That horse fled the barn a year ago.
And, you're right, all the fly-over immigrants are in for a rude awakening. Especially those who thought it was hip to homestead the frontiers.