{"id":553,"date":"2006-07-25T21:21:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/25\/what-price-produce\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T22:37:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T04:37:59","slug":"what-price-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"what price produce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=553\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/\">Rebecca&apos;s Pocket<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OK, I&apos;m guilty. I find myself wanting our little town to reverse it&apos;s current course of check cashing places and cut rate supermarkets and see a decent coffee shop, a Borders and a Whole Foods move in, starting the gentrification process. Where as my friends have seen the insane over-valuation of their homes give them the option of selling out for profit, our neighborhood plunks along with a steady historical increase that wouldn&apos;t give us enough to put a downpayment on a cardboard box on the east or west coast anymore.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But for me, having a neighborhood that I can walk into with some of the things I&apos;m interested in would be a dream. I don&apos;t think we want to give up a house to live in a condo with young professionals around, but for us to hang out in one of these places, we have to drive at least 5 miles. In speaking with a local merchant who asked Starbucks about a franchise, the rep said that our town, not just our neighborhood, would not be on Starbucks&apos; radar for at least 5 years because it&apos;s not even close to being upscale.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But there can be a downside to the entrance of these chains coming to town; those who don&apos;t appreciate a $3 coffee can find themselves priced out of their own homes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/%7Er\/RebeccasPocket\/%7E3\/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rebeccablood.net%2Farchive%2F2006%2F07%2Fthe_whole_foods_effect.html\">The Whole Foods Effect<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Rebecca&apos;s Pocket: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OK, I&apos;m guilty. I find myself wanting our little town to reverse it&apos;s current course of check cashing places and cut rate supermarkets and see a decent coffee shop, a Borders and a Whole Foods move in, starting the gentrification process. Where as my friends have seen the insane over-valuation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}