Brannan’s Bay Ridge: Life has no pause, no rewind
Finally back on terra firma for the summer. Traveled to Atlanta and Seattle since we last spoke. Hadn’t been to either of those cities in quite some time. Both have radically changed since last time I dropped by. Same as New York City, I suppose. Friends talking about being priced out of the neighborhoods they either grew up in or have lived in for the past few decades.
I learned metro Atlanta is apparently now one of the fastest growing areas in the country, expected to grow by another three million people over the next 20 years. Meanwhile, according to some other study, Seattle, the undisputed metropolis of the Pacific Northwest unless you’re asking someone from Portland, was identified as second most drastically gentrified city in the United States over the past decade.
Oddly enough, 25 years ago, “gentrification” was hardly the household term it is today. These days, good luck talking about cities, rent, race and $5 bougie coffee without it.