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>because you realized your hypocrisy as a participant? I mean
>that in earnest because we're not necessarily willing or
>intentional participants in that process.

Partially. My wife insists that we're not because we moved to our neighborhood from worse conditions in an adjacent neighborhood, and aren't explicitly White and/or Middle Class. My response is that we're both professionals, both have Master degrees, and in the Great Gentrification Invasion, mixed couples are often the vanguard, right after 'Artists' and Gay White Males. Once I came to terms with that, it made me sad, because I feel like the city has lost some of its soul, and it's getting harder to find a decent pastrami sandwich and/or morir sonando, but then I realized I can order thai food and mofongo on Seamless and finally live somewhere that FreshDirect will actually deliver to.
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>Funny, I have never been bothered by tourists. I didn't run
>into them for the most part other than during commuting. Plus,
>some of the best times I had in NYC involved tourists.

Sadly, I work Midtown, and they're inescapable. Also THE WORST HUMAN BEINGS EVER.