From: imber@maniform.com 
  
 On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:54:50 GMT, mikE  wrote: 
  
  
 >admit it, you gotta chuckle when you see "DIE YUPPIE SCUM" 
 >on a teeshirt or in print. :-) 
  
  Yes, I will admit it. I'll admit that I'm bitter because of my 
 experience. I'm bitter because I can't afford to eat in most of the 
 restaurants in my own neighborhood - a neighborhood that didn't exist until 
 my friends and I moved in and built it. Now we've got to fight to stay in 
 our homes every day. 
  
  Yep, I've got to give that to you. There's a part of me that's very 
 much on your side of that argument, and the reason that I bristled at the 
 original notion that Manhattanites should be discouraged from visiting 
 other-borough restaurants is that I understand the perception ALL too well. 
  
  I often find myself having to rejoin telling people where I live 
 (Tribeca) by saying "but I'm part of the original, old-timer group", as if 
 they have an idea what difference that makes. 
  
  The average income in this neighborhood now is said to be 
 $500,000/per annum. That's _average_. We lose neighbors every day whose 
 income is perhaps 10% of that, and yes, the old shopkeepers with their 
 training, experience and professional attitudes are being replaced right 
 and left with conglomerate clones. 
  
  Yes, I hear you. DGI 
  
 PS: But again, we should put this all back on topic. Food, friends! 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)