> There was gorgeous old architecture to be had on the cheap, if...
St. Louis really punches above its weight in gorgeous old architecture, so there are well-maintained, affordable neighborhoods with pretty old red-brick houses, too, but the real value is to be found in plain working-class neighborhoods where the houses never show up on Instagram. That housing for actual working-class people is unsurprisingly where most working-class St. Louisans live.
Of course, nobody who has ever used the word "gentrification" on twitter has any interest in living in any of those neighborhoods, so their existence is rounded down to zero in the discourse.
It wasn't that long ago that even the coolest neighborhoods with the best housing stock were wildly undervalued against their fundamentals. And hipster St. Louis isn't thrilled that the secret is out.
St. Louis really punches above its weight in gorgeous old architecture, so there are well-maintained, affordable neighborhoods with pretty old red-brick houses, too, but the real value is to be found in plain working-class neighborhoods where the houses never show up on Instagram. That housing for actual working-class people is unsurprisingly where most working-class St. Louisans live.
Of course, nobody who has ever used the word "gentrification" on twitter has any interest in living in any of those neighborhoods, so their existence is rounded down to zero in the discourse.
It wasn't that long ago that even the coolest neighborhoods with the best housing stock were wildly undervalued against their fundamentals. And hipster St. Louis isn't thrilled that the secret is out.