So, yesterday I'm on a stroll with my wife. My best friend came to visit with his new girlfriend. I wasn't even stylin' too hard for a Sunday, in fact we were day drinking chillin' at the park. Then some snooty little gentrifyers are headed our way, I could tell they thought I was attractive because my wife kinda joked about the way they were looking at me. After it was established I was with my wife, one of them yells in passing, "do you guys love Bedford"?
I just responded casually, "I was born here, where are you from, Idaho?"
This is the one and only aspect of gentrification that I'm against, the level of arrogance, and self-involvement, that is so unchecked you feel like you can be rude to others to deflect your social awkwardness and discomfort. You chose to move here, it's diverse and you're not the center of attention anymore simply by majority, sorry. Here, we get along with people based on merit and their genuine treatment of others as well as themselves. Not anything else.
You can't have me, or my attention so now you insult me? Really?