My Neighborhood in 50 Years

[Dan Goodman]

At last census, fiftytwo percent of SE Como's residents were college
age. The local big institution is the University of Minnesota.

If distance learning really takes off, that percentage will drop
drastically. Which would mean changes in local stores, bars, coffee
houses, and restaurants.

Also much less change at the end of semesters, fewer beer cans among the
litter, etc.

More certain changes? Signs saying "Free Wi-Fi" will be as quaint as
motel signs advertising television are now.

There will be less paper litter. And unwanted telephone directories will
be very, very rare.

The ethnic composition will change. There might be significant numbers
of North Korean immigrants, for example.

[Lutsen Lumberjack]

Post by Dan Goodman
At last census, fiftytwo percent of SE Como's residents were college
age. The local big institution is the University of Minnesota. [...]

As with many other areas around the "U", when I go past the SE Como area I notice an ever increasing proportion of what might be termed:

"Domestic Welfare Migrants"

One of the tactics of domestic welfare migrants seems to be crying 'discrimination' when an apartment building close to a university attempts to rent apartments exclusively to students. Then, once even one family of welfare migrants moves in, it makes the apartment building undesirable to students in _general_ -- such that, before you know it, the apartment building is almost exclusively rented out to welfare migrants.

After enough of such shifting goes on, the land leasing companies find a loophole through building socialist-tainted, overpriced quasi-dormitories near campus which they can 'rent exclusively to students' (such as the one above CVS Pharmacy in Dinkytown).

Yet the presence of welfare migrants cannot be ignored -- in that the surrounding areas of many universities around the nation are becoming 'seedy' thanks to them. Sorry Mr. Goodman, "there goes the neighborhood" is the ultimate fate of SE Como as well.