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murderballadeer · 2 months ago

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crazy how when my parents moved to this neighbourhood it was like a quirky relatively inexpensive area with mostly artists and immigrants and then it got gentrified to hell and back and then tourism took off and now i have to contend with being treated like set dressing by tour guides who think it's ok to invade my privacy for profit by letting random strangers stare at my bedroom window

#soapbox #like they've lived here the whole time #& the gentrification started when i was a baby so i don't fully remember the before #but when i was a little kid it was still mainly older immigrants and like broke artists #and the only tour groups were the kind of offbeat super historically oriented ones that were more academic in tone #& less 'let's pretend nobody lives here' in tone #now everyone and their mother comes here on vacation so you can make a quick buck by hosting a walking tour #where you regurgitate info from high school history textbooks to people who don't know the difference #& it really does make me feel like a zoo animal like stop it i live here for real!!

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