I love Providence, born and raised. It’s hard for locals to see their city change. It’s so much more expensive and crowded than it was before. Even just pre-Covid. It doesn’t help brown university bought all of Thayer street and drove out small business, then bought all of the jewelry district and changed that entirely and has been purchasing homes in fox point and driving up our cost of rent. It feels like a lot of people are just discovering Providence exists and it’s been hard on the people that have been here. Most of the comments I’ve read just on this post are people moving in to town. It’s not your fault, but people are being pushed out to make room.