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I'm curious to what you think the other options are?

Gentrification doesn't mean pushing all residents and culture out of a place - but it typically flows to areas with the least resistance (and location/ proximity).

So if you have an economically desolate area, and gentrification is at one end of the scale with 'detroitification' at the other - what is in the middle?

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The whole point of this (and a hundred other) articles is that the US is losing its "middle."

Increasingly, you are either rich or poor. A have or a have not. Most HN readers are haves or (because you are still young) think you will be haves. But life doesn't always turn out according to plan.

I can't express how much I agree to this - but with a small addition: The "middle" is disappearing in Europe also.

The most worrying thing is that if you put 95% of the people on a ship's back, it's going to sink; together with its front.

Not so with an iceberg, unfortunately.

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