Re: [UC] Funny revitalization story from burbs

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Glenn, 
I disagree with your interpretation and tone on this one.
 
First : The"Irish" in Bryn Mawr, even as late as the 1970's, were the under 
class.  They formed bonds for protection, entertainment, comfort and 
advancement that were reportedly far in excess of the bonds that exist between 
neighbors who are isolated by the geometry of attached garages with drive-to 
mailboxes at the end of long private lane (driveways). After 40 years of 
insular living, change may be frightening or not welcome for a variety of 
reasons.
 
With an average age of around 70, these Sellers may truly suffer from the 
Constructive Eviction for the convenience of BMH.  At a certain point, a 
certain type of person grows comfortable with being "carried out in a box".  
The up to $355,000 that they collected, as Sellers, to Bryn Mawr Hospital, is 
not enough to buy a better located home in Bryn Mawr.  It is not enough to 
replicate the community, to salve the sense (maybe guilt) of capitulating to 
the 'carrots and sticks' offered by the 800# gorilla, so much like PENN.
 
Second : "Home" is rarely a fungible location.  Even in "new" developments of 
cookie cutter houses, the true "home" owner invests in upgrades & / or 
relationships that quickly make "home" unique.  I have one friend who has moved 
10 times in the last 25 years, but some of the Irises, first planted by her 
Grandmother, an Ocean away, travel with her, to be planted in every new home.  
In summer, I can mark her presence, and her passage through UC, by the purple, 
Bearded Irises, that have become established every where she lives.  The 
neighbors displaced for BMH have may regret the loss of 40 and + years of 
customization - personalization.
 
Third : You are hearing the "whine" filtered through the words of the reporter. 
 How can we know from whom the tone resonates?  How many of the questions were 
designed to ferret out the dissatisfaction's?   You write in the first person.  
This lets us hold you accountable for your tone and projection.  Irony and 
sarcasm are VERY difficult to communicate via e-mail to a largely anonymous 
group.  This is a lesson I am still trying to learn.
Best!
Liz

-- Glenn moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Upscalers,

The anointed will get a kick out of this one.  Man, you can really sense the 
sadness from these losers-hahahaha.  

As Gramm, the architect of our beloved Wall St bank system, put it: Americans 
are a country of whiners.  These Bryn Mawr losers are just like the whores of 
West Philly-hahaha.  We’ll probably hear similar moaning when Woodland Tr. is 
revitalized for a much needed parking garage for the beloved Campus Inn-hahaha.


http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081001_Bryn_Mawr_s_Central_Avenue__Victim_of_revitalization.html?page=1&c=y


By that evening this past June, the decades-long bond among them and their 
Central Avenue neighbors was just a reminiscence, a slide show lighting up a 
screen in the Lower Merion Township Building's public room. Afterward, the 
township commissioners would push forward with their plan for the continued 
makeover of this flagging Main Line village, an effort jump-started several 
years ago by Bryn Mawr Hospital.
But as the photos pressed home, saving the town's economic life already had 
jeopardized something special about Bryn Mawr - its sense of community.



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[UC] Funny revitalization story from burbs

[Glenn moyer]

Upscalers,

The anointed will get a kick out of this one.  Man, you can really sense the 
sadness from these losers-hahahaha.  

As Gramm, the architect of our beloved Wall St bank system, put it: Americans 
are a country of whiners.  These Bryn Mawr losers are just like the whores of 
West Philly-hahaha.  We’ll probably hear similar moaning when Woodland Tr. is 
revitalized for a much needed parking garage for the beloved Campus Inn-hahaha.


http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081001_Bryn_Mawr_s_Central_Avenue__Victim_of_revitalization.html?page=1&c=y


By that evening this past June, the decades-long bond among them and their 
Central Avenue neighbors was just a reminiscence, a slide show lighting up a 
screen in the Lower Merion Township Building's public room. Afterward, the 
township commissioners would push forward with their plan for the continued 
makeover of this flagging Main Line village, an effort jump-started several 
years ago by Bryn Mawr Hospital.
But as the photos pressed home, saving the town's economic life already had 
jeopardized something special about Bryn Mawr - its sense of community.




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