Natural evolution
The street I am moving out of is rapidly yuppifying, just like the rest of the neighbourhood. Every week now an empty container placed in a parking space signals that some house somewhere is being cleared out, to be rebuilt as a ‘luxury’ appartment and to be rented out for thrice the price or more. From where I am sitting you can even see the empty appartements. Almost with every garbage collection day you can now see pieces of furniture too old to be taken to the new house placed by the roadside.
Of course, you will see happen here what happens everywhere yuppies move in: all the things that made the neighbourhood attractive in the first place will have gone. The foreign restaurants, the artists and their artistry, the interesting bums, the noise, the stench, the colours…
I don’t like it, but it’s a natural developement. And other places will become more interesting because of it, so I guess it’s not too bad. Poor yuppies. Always chasing what they never will have.