Can’t say I hang with people from HS still, I work a fulfilling job that helps provide for the city I grew up in and I interact with many communities. I appreciate some aspects of what transplants do for the city but I’ve also been witness to how it’s ruined aspects and hindered better development and pander to the universities.
I don’t care if someone tells someone about the Starbucks in wayland sq. Y’all aren’t really grasping it. There are parts of RI , not commerce related, that have been ruined. Areas that get overcrowded and treated like shit because people don’t have respect for their new communities. A good example is Camp Cronin. Camp Cronin was a “Secret spot” for people in RI who were sick of the overcrowding of our state beaches. Then, the gentrification boom of 10-15 years ago caused some people (someone I actually went to high school with) to write a trendy article in the hip local alternative newspaper. Great spot is now treated like the piss ditch at burning man. I’m sure you don’t want to hear about the environmental impact it causes, right? I must be an idiot for not pandering to people who move to a new town and treat it badly.