Caldwell on class & space

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>New York Press - August 28-September 3, 2002
>
>Hill of Beans
>Christopher Caldwell
>
>Sea Change
>
>This is not to say the Bobos haven't effected a permanent social change. 
>You cannot spend all of August on Boston's North Shore, where I grew up, 
>without being alarmed at the way much of it has been wrested from its-i.e., 
>my-local culture, and now constitutes one of those little duchies of 
>international wealth.

Very depressing.  I grew up on the North Shore, too -- having been born in 
Salem and reared in Swampscott.  Distressing to learn that:


>In 20, maybe even 10, years, this place will have absolutely nothing to do 
>with New England, except in a geographical sense.

Have I mentioned recently how much I dislike this country?

Carl

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