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Great. Starbucks. It wasn’t enough that a regular working class neighborhood like the Junction has been overrun with consumption-obssessed yuppies but now we’ve got those predators from Seattle horning in. The real problem with all these fashionably dressed, credit-worthy middle class white people is that they are profoundly inflationary. They are happy to pay top dollar for anything, a $5 coffee, a $10 beer, a $1000 stroller for their Aryan super-child, $12,000 for their official Lance Armstrong bike and Lance Amstrong suit, $600,000 for a $300,000 house. I know, we’ve had the offers. It’s sickening. But what’s just as bad is the attitude that comes with it – this sanctimonious, holier-than-thou pretense at being ‘progressive’ when they are nothing but locusts, stripping the area of its character and driving out the original inhabitants. There was a Korean green grocer at Quebec and Dundas W. An actually useful small business. He’s gone now because “the Strip” has become so trendy he can no longer afford the rents. Now his place is some chachka store with $500 paperweights.
It’s racially-based exploitation and gentrification, pure and simple – and those condos on Keele at the Junction Avenue bridge are a disgusting example of the worst excesses of the Miller regime’s corruption, which had promised a “livable city”. That property was originally zone as 1 storey commerical/light industry. It’s a four-building, 25 storey monster that looms over the entire neighborhood and will caused mammoth auto gridlock on Keele. Progressive, indeed. Thanks for the pollution, Dave. You people are nothing more than brand label parasites, a plague. Why can’t you and your SUVs move out to the 905 like all the other clones and leave us alone? Believe me, we were doing just fine without you.