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post #1 of 32
6/16/08 at 6:25pm
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http://nymag.com/daily/food/2008/06/...BIVtSgB7Rl2CnJ
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post #2 of 32
6/16/08 at 6:39pm
Haves and have nots...ah the age old battle.
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post #3 of 32
6/16/08 at 6:42pm
"Do yuppies even exist? No one says, 'I am a yuppie,' it's always the other guy who's a yuppie. I think for a group to exist, somebody has to admit to be part of it."
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post #4 of 32
6/16/08 at 6:48pm
Haha, this is ridiculous... In my honest opinion, let yuppies do whatever it is that they do. They aren't hurting anybody. I mean seriously, if them having money and being established in the professional world is all they have done wrong, then I say screw everybody who says that they have done something wrong in the first place. But EasyGoing, thats an interesting and insightful question you bring up.
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post #5 of 32
6/16/08 at 6:52pm
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The issue seems slightly misunderstood here. It's the old issue of gentrification of neighborhoods, when existing tenants of these neighborhoods fight the influx of newcomers (said "yuppies") and the increases in rents, prices etc... that follow. Happened in several Brooklyn hoods, Harlem and the East Village, and to the LES to a certain extent. The choice of words and protest is a bit new here though...
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post #6 of 32
6/16/08 at 7:00pm
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The issue seems slightly misunderstood here. It's the old issue of gentrification of neighborhoods, when existing tenants of these neighborhoods fight the influx of newcomers (said "yuppies") and the increases in rents, prices etc... that follow. Happened in several Brooklyn hoods, Harlem and the East Village, and to the LES to a certain extent. The choice of words and protest is a bit new here though...

Of course most if not all those doing the protesting are them selves hipster douche bags who recently ran/priced out all the Brothers and the Mexicans. In a nice piece of real irony hipsters and "artists" are often gentrification's shock troops.
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post #7 of 32
6/16/08 at 7:05pm
^^
Can't rep.
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post #8 of 32
6/16/08 at 7:14pm
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Haves and have nots...ah the age old battle.

What if its a case of have (taste / common sense / etc ) vs have not (same things)

Sorry, that wasn't not really fair, I dont know anything about NYC wine bars, but the first thing that popped to mind for me was London gastropubs. What used to be a perfectly good boozer is overrun by what may be considered yuppies (or the equiv of a 30K millionaire). There is more wine & champagne (read Cava or Prosecco, (both perfectly fine in their own right)) than beers. And they seem to take more time writing the menu (not planning it, but writing it) than actually cooking the damn food.

Sorry for the off topic rant.

K
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post #9 of 32
6/16/08 at 7:22pm
Gentrification. Get used to it.
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post #10 of 32
6/16/08 at 7:39pm
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The issue seems slightly misunderstood here. It's the old issue of gentrification of neighborhoods, when existing tenants of these neighborhoods fight the influx of newcomers (said "yuppies") and the increases in rents, prices etc... that follow. Happened in several Brooklyn hoods, Harlem and the East Village, and to the LES to a certain extent. The choice of words and protest is a bit new here though...
It just starting to happen on the East side and South side of Austin. I've seen quite a few new condominiums on the East side tagged with "Die yuppie scum!" Another SoCo business bites the dust By John Kelso | Friday, April 25, 2008, 09:20 AM Austin growth is kicking another old-timey Austin business in the pants, this time literally. Washburn’s Town & Country Cleaners, a place you could drop your britches off at 1423 South Congress Avenue (across the street from Guero’s Taco Bar), is moving. The culprit? The rent is going up from $1,500 to $9,000 a month, said Ken Washburn, who owns the business with his brother Doug. Ken says they have until the end of June before they have to move. “The price per square footage has gotten so high on South Congress that we just can’t afford a new lease,” Ken said. “You can tell by everything that’s growing up around us it’s a neat place to be.” The cleaners has been at this spot for 31 years. Virgil Washburn, Ken’s and Doug’s dad, began working at this spot in 1966 when it was another cleaners. “So actually there’s been a Washburn in the building since ‘66 — a long time,” Ken said. Ken says he doesn’t know where they’ll move to, but they hope to find a location south of the river. “We’ve got a firm looking for us,” Ken said. So what’s going in at this spot? “We’re not sure yet,” said Kay Finnell, of the Bolm Partnership, which owns the building. You can bet it won’t be another cleaners. Ken says he figures it’ll become a bar or a restaurant, but “they haven’t said, and I really haven’t asked them,” he added.
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post #11 of 32
6/16/08 at 7:57pm
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Of course most if not all those doing the protesting are them selves hipster douche bags who recently ran/priced out all the Brothers and the Mexicans. In a nice piece of real irony hipsters and "artists" are often gentrification's shock troops.

Of course they are, those yuppies scums need someone in the know to help them spot and create interesting opportunities. A yuppie is a young professional with more money than taste who desperately wants to be cool and needs a manual, those grimy "artistes" are their unspoken idols.
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post #12 of 32
6/16/08 at 8:14pm
so what's it take now on the salary side to be a yuppie? $9,000/month rent in that Austin article seems awfully high even for a yuppie. at 1/3 salary for housing, you'd have to be pulling in 300-400k a year to be considered a yuppie?

-Jeff
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post #13 of 32
6/16/08 at 8:20pm
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so what's it take now on the salary side to be a yuppie? $9,000/month rent in that Austin article seems awfully high even for a yuppie. at 1/3 salary for housing, you'd have to be pulling in 300-400k a year to be considered a yuppie?

-Jeff

The building in question in the Austin article is a commercial business, and more than likely will become a bar or restaurant. So, that's the reason for the huge increase in rent. They are building quite a few condominiums along South Congress Ave, but I have no clue as to what they are going for.
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post #14 of 32
6/16/08 at 8:25pm
Yuppies are the people who think buying modern reproductions of vintage design classics are cool, and who also like to frequent wine bars, and participate in "green events."

In fact, their interests are mostly documented on that What White People Like website. However, there are Asian yuppies, by far the most obnoxious.
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post #15 of 32
6/16/08 at 8:38pm
I love that when they evicted all the crack heads and prostitutes from South East DC nobody said a damn thing. Now we have a beautiful monstrosity of a stadium sitting where Nations used to be.
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