Comments on: Our Morning Roundup: Should Bloomingdale Become A Gated Community?

By: Matty B

Matty B — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:00:28 +0000

Ahem - *poverty

It was an impassioned post.

By: Matty B

Matty B — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:58:20 +0000

Oh, don't you worry - they'll move across the river when rising rents resulting from a myopic development project force them to. And they will still have to tolerate high crime rates, because instead of working to alleviate poevery, the city opts to simply relocate it outside of its jurisdiction.

By: Typical DC BS

Typical DC BS — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:14:05 +0000

Ugh. Get ready to move. The whities be coming for your neighborhood! Before you know it, you may wind up learning that street thugs are bad things to have in your neighborhood, not something to be tolerated.

Move your loser ass to PG County.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:09:32 +0000

The original posting was from "Elizabeth" at 2nd Street NW:

"I am sick & tired of reading things like this day in / day out, and every day there is the same old rap sheet. We need to make Bloomingdale a Gated Community - I can't understand how so many of these thugs are continuously in our neighborhood."

Sounds like someone needs to stop reading the Listserv.

By: ugh

ugh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:25 +0000

I live in Bloomingdale and it has recently been flooded with frightened, racist yuppies toting around 5 month olds and walking their 1990s labrador retrievers. The listservs are a disgrace; these people want to move in and shut everything down- liquor stores, neighborhood parks etc... just because there's occasionally a shooting between 2 drug dealers who want nothing to do with these peoples' annoying, crying babies. These supposed "progressives" are just miserly, racist, assholes who won't shell out the dough to live in Logan, so they move to cheaper housing and try to transform it from the inside out, to drive out the black community while raising property values (i guess they're just intentional gentrifiers). But guess what? They aren't going away, there's a huge housing project that ain't gonna move- go somewhere else- try virginia, I hear it's sufficiently white.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:59:51 +0000

Um, if someone can't deal with occasional crime why the hell did they move to Bloomingdale? It's not like it's anything new around there. Gated communities are for sprawling suburbs, and I'm pretty sure their purpose is to keep zombies in, not regular people out. Besides which, the whole idea is idiotic. Chances are most of the people perpetrating the crimes live within the area you'd want to gate off.