Reply #10: Just take a look at NYC

[Libertas1776]

it has been horribly altered by gentrification, Manhattan especially, by the Giuliani and Bloomberg dictatorship...er...i mean administrations. It really pains me every time i go into the city and see the whitewashed, gentrified sex and the city, gourmet cupcake obsessed faux liberal gated community the city has become made sanitized and safe for the yuppies and The Joneses.

Here's a really good blog that catalogs the non stop gentrification and dismantling of everything original and unique about NYC. It's really fascinating and incredibly depressing: http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/