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"Gentryfier go Home!" by Darwin Bell. Shot in NOPA/Western Addition.
Also, where does a gentryfier call home? Gentrislovia? Please advise.
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Oh, the gentrifying irony of the term "NOPA/Western Addition"!!!
I agree with sfbs, the damage is done.
Dodger lovers.
If gentrification means an end to graffiti with mixed capitalization, then I'm all for it.
The local dead-enders in NoPa are getting really pitiful. There's major construction across the street from us, but a neighbor saw fit to barge into our garage and start kicking stuff and yelling at our contractor when he used a power saw to cut a few pieces of trim in the middle of a Thursday.
Rather than take out his pitiful anger on the real noise problem (the huge building project across the street), he verbally abused, threatened, and vandalized private property of a neighbor.
At this point, NoPa can't gentrify fast enough.
I caught another delightful neighbor spitting on my front stairs one day as I walked around the corner. This is a guy who I've always politely said hello to when I see him on the sidewalk, despite never being acknowledged in return.
Gentridelphia. Or the Mission.
Please everyone who blithely says that the mission is gentrifying show me, prove it.
It's such a stupid meme, like the one about 500,000 pedophiles on the internets or the one about eating bugs in your sleep. It's not true but is dutifully repeated over and over.
Look 4 kids who ride single speeds bikes, who drink blue whatsit coffee, who wear oversize white frame glasses and who share a 5 room flat in the mission does not signify gentrification. The only thing it says is there are 4 poseurs sharing a flat.
There has been a lot of change in the mission, but I would argue the change reflects changes in America as a whole, starting with the abandonment of the industrial economy. The mission, as the rest of the country, is no longer blue collar because blue collar no longer exists. If east coast = jewish, then gentrifying = whitening. Let me tell you it ain't happening.
@NeoDisplacer: The Mission is large neighborhood and parts of it have shown no signs of gentrification (whether that means whiter or richer people moving in) On the other hand, the area around Valencia St. and a couple blocks east has changed greatly in the last 10 years or so. Also, there has been a tremendous fear of gentrification in the Mission because there are dozens proposed condo projects in the area. Those were delayed because the City want to prepare a master plan for the area. Now that the master plan has been approved, there is no money to build, so the gentrification fears are probably overstated. But the "gentrification in the Mission" meme has become well-established and has some basis.
Hmm-- looks like the same handywork of the person who carved 'Go Home Yuppys -KZ' on the marble facade of my apartment doorway.'
"Western addition? Sorry no I don't, oh! you mean NOPA!"
Pardon my ignorance, I though NoPA and WA were contiguous, the WA is way over S of Japantown, and NoPA was - well, nowhere until people started calling it NoPA.
My very first visit to SF in the 70s, took a cab to my friend's house on Broderick. The street was dark and deserted at 9 PM. "Are you sure this is where you want?" the cabbie asked. "Are you SURE?". I can't recollect whether this was No or So of the PA, though.
WTF?
The Panhandle was called just that for as long as I can remember. NOPA appears to have come from RE types who had listings they couldn't move in the Western Addition, but were near the Panhandle.
I'm just curious which side of Fillmore the anti-GenTRyFieRs are on.
Everyone in the City I know is either downtown or in the Richmond or Sunset, so this is all flyover country to me. (Insert flyunder/Muni joke here.)
My impression when I moved here (which was shortly before the emergence of "NOPA") was that Western Addition is more or less everything west of Van Ness, south of Geary, north of Oak and east of Stanyan. The Panhandle area (never NOPA) was within the Western Addition from Divisadero to Stanyan between Fell and Hayes, maybe Grove, but certainly not Fulton.
Contiguous: "Adjacent to and sharing a common boundary"
I am assuming part of the controvery is, when we say "NoPa/Western Addition", we are offending one end of the term or the other. Actually, both areas are a lot nicer than they used to be 30 years ago.
Or am I wrong in thinking all along that NoPA is "North of the Panhandle?"
You are correct. NoPa is North of Panhandle. I was just commenting on how many abbreviations you used by using an abbreviation of my own.
Not really. The controversy is that nopa sucks. It's like people who go into small coffee shops and order venti coffees. It's a marketing tool, not a real word.
Right in the respect that people who say NoPa are talking about North of Panhandle. I did not mean right as in NoPa is ever an ok thing to say or think.