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Solomon Grundy
07/06/09

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These hipster jokes are so fresh and hilarious.
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Senor_Wences
07/06/09

@Solomon Grundy: Concur.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
07/06/09

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*eyeroll*

Wonderful. Now the mayor is going to go down and have his buddies option everything just as soon as they finish moving all the people of color out.

Shut up, Gawker.
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flossy
07/06/09

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Could you please tell this to the construction crew that starts work at 7:00 AM every day in the empty lot RIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW? They don't seem to have gotten the memo.
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LorenzoDesomma
07/06/09

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Oh shut up everyone. Cleveland's already 100x more hardcore than Williamsburg with 1 out of 10 houses foreclosed, no industry but the hustle and people desperately out of work. So lay the fuck off, hear?
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britneyspearstears
07/06/09

@LorenzoDesomma: Cleveland is the city, the city that we come from...

That's my hometown, thanks for the love. [repeat]
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sweetpickles
07/06/09

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Maybe these kids will now have to return to their original burnt out cities, namely cleveland and everywhere else in the middle. Thank you for playing, but your band kind of blows...
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britneyspearstears
07/06/09

@sweetpickles: Cleveland is the city, the city that we come from...

That's my hometown, thanks for the love.
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gawkimo
07/06/09

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If I'm going to live in a urban shithole, there better be palm trees growing in the empty lots and sea nearby that I'd actually swim in.
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chuleta718
07/06/09

@gawkimo: South Florida's pretty cheap now.
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britneyspearstears
07/06/09

@gawkimo: Long Beach, what?
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gawkimo
07/06/09

@chuleta718: I had Mumbai or Jakarta in mind. . .
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I Love New Jersey
07/06/09

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When hipsters start getting mugged/killed/etc. on the L train, then maybe you'll have something.
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allyzay
07/06/09

@I Love New Jersey: they are...? and have been...? every criminal worth 5c knows to go fuck with the white nyu trust-fund retards who populate all over the l train thru about morgan ave these days, come the fuck on. hell, i'm tempted to do it sometimes.
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Nic Fit
07/06/09

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Uh oh, rusting condos!

The corner of 6th and B, East Village, 1980s:

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BadUncle
07/06/09

@Nic Fit: Did those come with Viking appliances?
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Kid Twist
07/06/09

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These kids will just love East New York.
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DennyCrane
07/06/09

@Kid Twist: Or Crown Heights.
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Mount_Prion
07/06/09

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This means the coolest place ever is Detroit! You hear that, hipsters?!

You just read it on Gawker:

The cool kids are moving to Detroit. Now go!
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Awesome X
07/06/09

@Mount_Prion: Jesus, Prion. Hasn't Detroit suffered enough?
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snugbug
07/06/09

@Mount_Prion: Yeah, but you can OWN a house in Detroit for like $8,000. So what if it's next door to one of those "dot-marked" houses with the "dead or crackhead" graffiti on it and collapsed roof? I'll take Detroit over Billburg. Plus, they have good Eastern Euro food there.
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kjack
07/06/09

@snugbug: I think you can buy an entire block on the southwest side of Detroit for $8k now. My grandparents sold their 6 bedroom victorian in SW Detroit for less than $15k in 1999. Granted, it was next to a crack house and the two houses across the street were burned down in the late 80s, but the house had leaded glass windows, a full bar in the basement and a living room the size of an elementary school's gymnasium.
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snugbug
07/06/09

@kjack: Nice anecdote, brings back memories of me visiting with my Detroit friends for a wedding back during that "GREAT POWER FAILURE O' 2004" that crippled the entire Eastern Seabord and rendered Detroit an absolute jungle.. I'll never forget driving from Detroit to Ann Arbor at nite, while the whole general area was without electricity. We had to fence off drunky peeps who'd broken into convenience stores and gotten even drunkier, lunging at our Oldsmobile Calais from all angles.. All of that being said, I still have a huge soft spot for Detroit. It's like a contemporary art project.. All the decay has an almost.. romantic quality to it.
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minou
07/06/09

@snugbug: It does, especially if you keep romanticizing it. And how you cast that narrative as a zombie film, complete with racist undertones (jungle? really?) and you as the outsider hero who can see the beauty in all that ruin?

Please.

I don't mean to be so hard on you, but I wish people would stop projecting their apocalyptic fantasies onto Detroit, which is a city with real problems where real people live. It's not up to us (well, I still claim partial residency) to fetishize its decay and objectify an entire population's reality into our personal version of "28 Days Later."
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snugbug
07/06/09

@minou: Please don't call me a racist, that almost made me cry and reach for a drink.

I'm a writer, and that's how I personally experienced Detroit. Not in a politician's "let's go to work!" mind frame, but as a person who observes, and marvels at things, and then expresses those sentiments and impressions in words.

PS: Now I'm sad.
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minou
07/06/09

@snugbug: I'm also a writer, and that's how I personally experienced Detroit for most of my life. I don't see what that has to do with anything. You romanticized the all too real situation of a city and by extension its entire population to fit your vision of it, thereby doing reality a disservice. And as a writer, I'm surprised that you're not more sensitive to the power that words like "jungle" can have, even if the user does not intend them to cause harm. All this vague "sentiments and impressions in words" business sounds to me like the place where you should have just said "yeah, you're right, I fucked up."
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Awesome X
07/06/09

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Some should write a musical about it!
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