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sliverstorm on Oct 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: London’s Great Exodus

What do you mean the new gentrification? Creatives have always been a step in the march of gentrification, roughly approximated as "poor => creatives => wealthy"

knassy on Oct 14, 2013 [–]

That's exactly my point. The 'successful creatives' referred to don't sound like struggling artists and bohemians.

It's interesting that the author doesn't acknowledge where they sit in this process.

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