Coming from a family of immigrants that had to move around to find work, it's interesting to hear about people's sense of entitlement to a certain lifestyle. Especially the expensive beachside living lifestyle. Am I wrong for not feeling sorry for them?
Disclosure. I tried living in SF. The cost of living was too high. I left. Problem solved. Ta da, no bitching required
If you feel entitled to not be displaced - then yes, that's a sense of entitlement.
I was amazed by the people who felt entitled to a lower cost of living - all while blaming IT workers for gentrifying their beautiful oasis. I would have thought they lived in SF their whole life to feel that level of angst. More like a couple years. Intermittently. While their parents pay for their art degree.
That's very tautological of you, but I'm guessing English isn't your first language.
A sense of entitlement is an English idiom for "having too high of expectations", and typically associated with narcissism. Expecting to not be displaced from your home after 20 years is not a sense of entitlement or narcissistic.
"What about the people who have already lived there, who aren't on engineering salaries and work service positions?"
I'm trying to look at it in more brighter light, so I'll say that they can sell high their place (which is wonderful thing from a market player's prospective), then offer themselves as a gift to enrich some other lucky place (which is good for many under multiple reasons). It's a win-win!
Of course, but their skin tone is a few shades darker, so nobody talks or cares about them.
People would rather argue in ivory towers about abstract problems that don't exist in the real world (sexism in video games, Internet feminism, etc), rather than work on unpleasant and unsexy problems that can easily be solved.
What's abstract or unreal about them? What's "Internet" feminism, for that matter? I'd say sexism in videogames is real... and the level of aggression in online discussions about that topic is almost asphyxiating, enough that I consider it a serious problem. Would you similarly argue that it's "unreal" to argue about sexism (or racism, or whatever -ism) in movies?
It's a shame you said this, because I'm in agreement with the rest of your post.
I think it's fun to be flippant, but there still certain demographics that are being displaced and negatively impacted by the bubble.