Newtown is dying!

[nicksfakeeljay]

"Because it's becoming gentrified! Independent vegan co-ops are moving out and chain stores are moving in. The community is being broken up"

I think this is the pervading sentiment among the mohawk set these days. It's also a sentiment I can't stand.

It's ironic than in trying to defend its geographical coherence the Newtown alternative community

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[canonicity]

You're completely right that traditional thinking about gentrification isn't terribly applicable here-Newtown has always been a place of wealth and leisure. Even in Gough's time I doubt many working class people lived there. But I don't think that delegitimises the sense of loss for it's recent transformations