One of my favorite dining places may be shoved out by high rents

[ellen_datlow]

Just got this alert from a friend:
Florent and greedy landlords

I'm really depressed about this. It's the last bastion of reasonable prices and a fun, relaxed atmosphere in a neighborhood that has been drowned by greed and real estate lust. This absolutely sucks if it's true.

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[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

The last vestiges of old Americana are doomed. The international corporate empire, with help from our treasonous American leaders, have engineered America's down turned economy so that ultra wealthy investors can buy up property and muscle out old fashioned, small time entrepreneurs--not to mention the middle class.

Artists and writers will suffer, I'm afraid, along with everyone else who has not sold his/her soul to ol' Scratch for a wretched fortune in gold.

Forgive me for waxing political, but the whole mess makes me want to puke. And I don't see any end to it in sight.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Please feel free to vent. I feel the same way :-(

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

I don't think we're lone rangers.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Oh not at all--I also got two emails from friends responding to my post and everyone's comments.