Will New Seaside Heights be SWPLized?

There’s no profit in serving guidos. Maybe in New Seaside Heights, the fried clams will be replaced by sushi, the zeppoles by red velvet cupcakes, the greasy sausage and peppers heroes by organic free-range chicken breasts on focaccia bread, the frozen custard by gelato. The saltwater taffy places will be replaced with farmer's market stands featuring locally grown healthy fruits and vegetables. The cheap t-shirt shops (like the one that Snooki, “The Situation,” and those guys worked at in Season 1) will be replaced by Juicy Couture—wait, that’s not much of a difference.

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[oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tng-walla-walla-bing-bang]

how can it not be? This hurricane is a god-send for developers. A week ago, you have direct train service to hoboken which was close, affordable, cheap and dangerous/prole. Now, hoboken is nothing, tabula rosa, a blank slate. does *anyone* think there's *any* chance they build back what used to be there instead of luxury condos?

[eggwhite]

So your boy Christie is helping Obama get elected. I've liked Christie, but he has a sanctimonious side (obviously). I wonder if he is honest with himself about how he is helping Obama and wounding Romney?

[HS: He is kissing Obama's ass to get more FEMA aid.]

[Drole Prole]

It's a matter of time. NYC, SF and other expensive urban regions are swplizing every inch of land as possible. As I've said before, they don't make cities like they used to, and the few attempts at creating New Urbanist Transit Oriented Development are too little too late to meet the demand. The next best thing is for swpls to migrate to urban ghettos that already have the infrastructure in place for hip urban living in and among older buildings located in walkable areas.

Similarly, there's a new hood in the SF East Bay area called "NOBE" which is an acronym for the area around North Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville. This area is a transitional zone that sorta 'hood' by not too bad where heartier Swpls are flocking towards as real estate prices of nearby hoods of temescal, rockridge and elmwood continue to increase. for the first time in years, blacks are no longer the majority race in Oakland. Whites, Asians and Hispanics are pushing them out, just like in LA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpviUVyWHK8&feature=youtu.be

[dearieme]

Why on earth did NYC have no effective defences against the arrival of a storm surge at high water of a Spring tide? Would it really cost prohibitive amounts to protect at least subways and tunnels?

[HS: Yes and no: the tunnels and subways have vents all over the place. New York City should have put up a concrete levee around low-lying areas, which would have protected everything for a fraction of the billions of dollars of damage caused.]

[Dr. Grzlickson]

"He is kissing Obama's ass to get more FEMA aid."

Or he can read poll numbers.

[Matt in RTP]

Thomas Friedman (wealthy JEW elite -- okay, Half Sigma, okay, I'm just joking) endorsed Michael Bloomberg as the most pro-life politician in the country:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/friedman-why-i-am-pro-life.html?adxnnl=1&ref=thomaslfriedman&adxnnlx=1351778587-DRltsUpuLsLBZp22bPfs+w

But we know that this is just code for pro-SWPL -- Hizzoner's policies are designed to make life in NYC unbearable for proles of all races (ultra-small apartments for strivers, no soda or cigarettes, so on) and transform it in a SWPL playground.

Pro Life = PRO-SWPL, But you can't blame him, can you? You can get more in taxes from the SWPLs, and they're not likely to engage in muggings, carjackings, or hang out on the stoop in guinea-ts and gold chains...just as long as there is a small nucleus of them to provide labor, drugs, and a small dose of ethnic flavor and urban frisson to the inhabitants of DisneyNYC.

[Camlost]

"HS: He is kissing Obama's ass to get more FEMA aid."

In other words, he's doing his job.

[HS: I suppose if one believes his responsibility is to the people of New Jersey rather than the national Republican Party, then yes.]

[asdf]

Yahoo news had a headline saying that Snooki had a comment on the storm hitting Seaside. When I asked my friend what it could be he responded, "we've got a Situation here."

[14th]

"A week ago, you have direct train service to hoboken which was close, affordable, cheap and dangerous/prole. Now, hoboken is nothing, tabula rosa, a blank slate. does *anyone* think there's *any* chance they build back what used to be there instead of luxury condos?"

Where have you been for the last 5 years? The place has been gentrifying for some time.

[Black_Rose]

"But we know that this is just code for pro-SWPL -- Hizzoner's policies are designed to make life in NYC unbearable for proles of all races (ultra-small apartments for strivers, no soda or cigarettes, so on) and transform it in a SWPL playground. "

I like SWPLization, as long it makes the proles suffer. I really hate prolish culture and behavior.

[Drole Prole]

"I like SWPLization, as long it makes the proles suffer. I really hate prolish culture and behavior."

Posted by: Black_Rose

It's only good if you can afford to live where the swpl decide to concentrate themselves. Otherwise, you'll have to suffer and live where the prole concentrate.

[Kurtosis]

SWPL food > guido food any day of the week. i am all for this.

[anonymous]

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/19973431/battered-nj-agonizes-over-whether-to-rebuild-shore

Or they might just leave it the way it is for the good of the environment...

.... ha ha ha ha ha

[Matt in RTP]

"It's only good if you can afford to live where the swpl decide to concentrate themselves. Otherwise, you'll have to suffer and live where the prole concentrate."

I know Half Sigma went over this before, but there exist strata between proles and the upper class 'SWPL' who end up taking over a neighborhood after the students and gays have been priced out, right?

I live in a dense, inner-ring suburban neighborhood that is not SWPL, and not quite prole -- white working class to middle class, most of my neighbors are either young, childless white professionals, like me, or slightly older high-prole types, building contractors, electricians, nurses, civil servants without college degrees, who have two to three children, a fair amount of Indians, few blacks and no almost no Hispanics.

However, this is the sprawling sunbelt South, where zoning laws are lax.

SWPLs love zoning laws, since they help concentrate status(they ain't making more land). There are certainly desirable neighborhoods in every Sunbelt city, but you don't see the obsession with ZIP codes like in Manhattan (although, granted, as Steve Sailer has noted, much of this is due to constraints of geography). Liberals prefer status competition be based on positional goods (zero sum), while conservatives prefer it to be based on material goods (status is ultimately zero sum, but at least the conservative vision allows for a rising tide lifting all boats scenario -- I think liberals would sometimes be happy if we all went back to a Stone Age level of wealth, provided the 'right people' control 99% of it).

[DaveinHackensack]

"A week ago, you have direct train service to hoboken which was close, affordable, cheap and dangerous/prole."

WTF? Hoboken isn't cheap, dangerous, or prole. Here's a one bedroom condo there with an asking price of $950k: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/225-River-St-APT-1802-Hoboken-NJ-07030/2131136787_zpid/

[HS: Hoboken is an expensive SWPLized area next to a ghetto. Hopefully, the ghetto can now be demolished, and replaced with luxury condos.]

[Peter]

I suspect that the actual physical damage in Seaside Heights and other Shore towns will be less than feared, with the vast majority of buildings *not* destroyed.

[Secret of NAM]

"There’s no profit in serving guidos."

Wal-Mart

[ScarletKnight]

HS: I suppose if one believes his responsibility is to the people of New Jersey rather than the national Republican Party, then yes.

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I hate to break it to all of you, but Christie is doing the right thing here. New Jersey first, Romney second.

[Drole Prole]

Once a city goes Alpha or global, the fundamentals of the local economy don't apply much anymore. SF, NYC, London, Toronto, etc are global cities whose prices have weathered the great recession quite well. People in real estate bubble blogs have been talking about the bubble poppping in global cities citing the skewed ratios of income to real estate prices being unsustainable. But when foreigners with deep pockets from all over the world flock to these cities, locals with more modest incomes just can't compete and have to either endure smaller crappier dwellings or move to the ghettos. These cities are often fully built out, so it's only a matter of time until most of the slums become de-slummed. Dynamic urban cities are cool now, and the developing nations are catching up with us economically. The pre-1990s economic paradigm no longer applies. Yes, things are different now and these global cities have reached the point of no return. Expecting declines similar to 'fly-over'cities is wishful thinking.