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Don't presume consent or support based on lack of vocal opposition. Queens isn't as high income as Seattle or the part of Virginia that Amazon is in, and the people who live there may just be making ends meet, not paying attention to how gentrification of their neighborhood may eject them from it.

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Typical Rent in LIC is around $3200 for a 1-bedroom. It's an extremely high-income neighborhood in Queens. Go a little farther down the 7 and you start to see some of the middle class, but they're not really in LIC.

> Don't presume consent or support based on lack of vocal opposition.

Seems better than presuming lack of consent and lack of support based on lack of vocal opposition?

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