<story><title>Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism</title><url>https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/2mvygaw3y67fx5bqrvno2lp452zifc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaspax</author><text>I could not agree with the author&amp;#x27;s main point more. Do you know where genuine bohemian living is to be found today? Certainly not in NYC or any other major urban centre. Instead, you need to run off to a dying rust-best town in Ohio and buy out an empty storefront where your neighbours will be a liquor store and a Pentecostal church. There are places where you can pay $200&amp;#x2F;month in rent, or buy a house for under $50k. Go to one of those and build yourself an artistic utopia.&lt;p&gt;Of course my interests are not neutral here. I&amp;#x27;m from a place like this, and after a decade of urban living I decided to move back. It&amp;#x27;s not trendy or sexy, but I encourage people to give it a try.</text></comment>
<story><title>Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism</title><url>https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/2mvygaw3y67fx5bqrvno2lp452zifc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>Berlin is going through this at the moment. From being &amp;quot;poor but sexy&amp;quot; to having everything safe, clean and nice and the rents doubled.&lt;p&gt;Artists (of any kind) don&amp;#x27;t make any money, and don&amp;#x27;t want to waste time making money when they could be making art. So they need cheap places to live. Cheap places are cheap for a reason: there&amp;#x27;s no heating, or the roof leaks, or the kitchen isn&amp;#x27;t really a kitchen, or it&amp;#x27;s miles from anywhere you&amp;#x27;d want to go. That doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if what you really want to do is spend every waking moment creatively and around likeminded people.&lt;p&gt;Apparently Leipzig is where the artists from Berlin are moving now, because it&amp;#x27;s cheap. But who wants to live in Leipzig? It&amp;#x27;s a nothing place.&lt;p&gt;Until 20 years from now, when it&amp;#x27;ll be a cultural centre because of all the artists there... and they&amp;#x27;ll have to move on because the rents will be rising.</text></comment>