Author Topic: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate  (Read 8468 times)

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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2008, 04:00:56 PM »
As energy prices grow higher, prices of suburban homes will continue to plummet.

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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2008, 04:21:49 PM »
Check out this story in this month's Atlantic about the future tenements in deep suburbia:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime

And the college towns are out for being affordable. The most expensive real estate per square foot in the state of Mississippi (my current home)? Oxford - home of the University of Mississippi. Young professors I know have to live in small towns 20-30 miles outside of Oxford in order to be able to buy a house.

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« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2008, 06:10:53 PM »
I enjoyed that article. Somebody needs to do some on the ground, talking to the people journalism about it the subject.

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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2008, 05:17:06 AM »
I enjoyed that article. Somebody needs to do some on the ground, talking to the people journalism about it the subject.

Perhaps this guy...




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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2008, 08:53:16 AM »
Kind of in the same vein...and it's a pretty good book...




"In his most brilliantly syncretic writing yet, radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today—white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, and federal policy—and looks at areas he calls “national sacrifice zones,” military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable.

Davis begins our apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York’s Ground Zero. He then takes us to “German Village,” a Utah wasteland that was once a test site for Allied science advisors to rehearse the perfect plan for destroying Berlin, and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas, where environmental terrorism is practiced in the name of urban development. Davis also hits Los Angeles, the frontline of the “Second Civil War” sparked by American apartheid, and which lies waiting to be ignited in cities across the country.

With wit, compassion, and an eye for the absurd and the unjust, Mike Davis has begun a long overdue dialogue on urban science in this prophetic new book."

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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2008, 11:48:21 AM »
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this Mike Davis sounds a little left-of-center.

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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2008, 11:52:41 AM »
Just a little.  Also, he is awesome.
Oh, good heavens. I didn’t realize. I send my condolences out to the rest of the O’Connor family.

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« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2008, 11:56:38 AM »
Just a little.  Also, he is awesome.

I agree.

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« Reply #23 on: May 05, 2008, 11:01:16 AM »
They did again. They did it again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/realestate/04habi.html

I live in Greenpoint and everything about this article makes me want to barf. But as a co-worker pointed out, nice job on buying a house for close to a million dollars on top of an environmental mess. I'd suggest against growing anything in that backyard.

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« Reply #24 on: May 05, 2008, 11:32:04 AM »
I'm just glad to know that we are finally getting a bar in Greenpoint, especially since all you can find here is Polish beer.
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« Reply #25 on: May 05, 2008, 11:33:40 AM »
I'm just glad to know that we are finally getting a bar in Greenpoint, especially since all you can find here is Polish beer.

You're not a Żywiec man?

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« Reply #26 on: May 05, 2008, 12:10:37 PM »
I'm just glad to know that we are finally getting a bar in Greenpoint, especially since all you can find here is Polish beer.

You're not a Żywiec man?

 Holy guacamole, even I can't pronounce that and my last name is Lachiewicz.
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« Reply #27 on: May 05, 2008, 12:15:25 PM »
I'm just glad to know that we are finally getting a bar in Greenpoint, especially since all you can find here is Polish beer.

You're not a Żywiec man?

 Holy guacamole, even I can't pronounce that and my last name is Lachiewicz.

It's a whole lot of consonant for not a lot of vowel.

I'm not even Polish! I just live in Little Poland (typical torontonian response: "we have a Little Poland?"). It is the beverage of choice for the creepy old men down my way.

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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #28 on: May 05, 2008, 12:18:35 PM »
I'm just glad to know that we are finally getting a bar in Greenpoint, especially since all you can find here is Polish beer.

You're not a Żywiec man?

 Holy guacamole, even I can't pronounce that and my last name is Lachiewicz.

It's a whole lot of consonant for not a lot of vowel.

I'm not even Polish! I just live in Little Poland (typical torontonian response: "we have a Little Poland?"). It is the beverage of choice for the creepy old men down my way.

 In all fairness, I am a creepy old man. Guess I'll have to try it.
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Re: Williamsburg Hipsters Invade Upstate
« Reply #29 on: May 05, 2008, 01:16:09 PM »
Polish beer is great (and usually pretty cheap). Zywiec is a good one, and so is Lezajsk. Maybe not as good as your local craft-brewed gourmet stuff, but waaaay better than most domestic beer.