When real estate values rise, so do ad valorum taxes. Soon those neighbors will be forced out and all the advantages of that neighborhood will be destroyed forever.
The advantages to those particular people will be gone, but the new people will be there for new reasons. My particular town has worked very hard over the last twenty years to gentrify a particular neighborhood. The people and businesses that were once there are mostly gone, now, and instead it’s a thriving upscale neighborhood and shopping area.
Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
don’t do what? is it synonymous of doing séances?
Superfrog over 7 years ago
Working class ghosts only.
Proginoskes over 7 years ago
@ TEMPLO SUD: When you’re on the Internet, and you run across a word you don’t know, you can always Google it. To gentrify is to improve or renovate.
DiminishedFirst over 7 years ago
I know what gentrifying means, but that still does not make this comic funny.
TossedSaladCartoon over 7 years ago
Good luck with that…
Cerabooge over 7 years ago
Isn’t the sign itself a form of gentrifying?
nosirrom over 7 years ago
So Bobbie Gentry isn’t welcome there. I understand that since the next thing you know they’ll have a Fancy Courtyard in town.
hippogriff over 7 years ago
Chris Maple
A needed addition to the earlier definition. Thanks, even if you did beat me to it.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
You can also call it “creeping Plutocracy.”
hippogriff over 7 years ago
Carl R
When real estate values rise, so do ad valorum taxes. Soon those neighbors will be forced out and all the advantages of that neighborhood will be destroyed forever.
Carl R over 7 years ago
The advantages to those particular people will be gone, but the new people will be there for new reasons. My particular town has worked very hard over the last twenty years to gentrify a particular neighborhood. The people and businesses that were once there are mostly gone, now, and instead it’s a thriving upscale neighborhood and shopping area.