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So, the Bay area is, as always, attracting new industry and young people (ie., the dreaded "tech money"). The result is ever changing neighborhood demographics and resident vs. interloper attitudes. Not all the changes, however, are bad. Frankly, I'm not worried about getting shot or robbed by a Google employee. There's more money for new businesses and long boarded up buildings are now rented by whatever the best coffee/panini/cupcake trend is. That said, gentrification takes it's toll with "sprawl". SF is SF. it's 7x7 miles. so there is no real "suburb" or lost area. Oakland, however, is full of industrial, hidden and unknown gems that have been relatively left to obscurity. That's all changing.

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The adverse side of gentrification is everyone's taxes go up, making it unaffordable for the people that made it a habitable place in the first instance.

Gentrification is the natural process of people trying to buy what makes anything "cool", which then ironically forces aside all of the things that actually make it so.

Keep Austin Weird.