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This debate sounds strangely familiar. About 50 years ago, weren't there groups of affluent residents whose families lived in the same neighborhoods for years and years who didn't like "those people" who moved into "their" neighborhoods, and were "forced" to move out to get away from them? Only now, instead of white flight, it's "multi-generational community" flight. It's obviously not a perfect analogy, but the sense of entitlement that the neighborhood not change is the same (without the racial motivations behind it). And of course, those who relatively recently moved to Georgetown (ahem, Ken) don't have a leg to stand on.

"Do you not agree that displacement of the multi-generational community that has been in West Georgetown for over 250 years with a student quarter is a problem?"

No, not really. I'm having a hard time getting worked up on behalf of affluent individuals people who feel "forced" to move because they don't like their new neighbors. I'll save my sympathy for the DC residents who actually forced to move because they can't afford to live in their neighborhoods anymore.

by dcd on Jan 18, 2011 12:56 pm • link • report

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