The Daily Durning: A Gentrification Quiz for the 21st Century

Tom Durning linked to the 1985 Gentrification Quiz in San Francisco below, a tongue-in-cheek way of determining if your neighbourhood has upscaled. 

Tom suggests it’s time for a new list for the 21st Century. Like:

Brew Pub – 10 points

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Voony added:

A bike shop – 5 points
Jugo Juice in your subway station – 20 points

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Scot Bathgate:

Hipster Barber shop with tattooed barbers like this place.

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Len Sobo:

A Cross Fit Gym

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Ken Ohrn:

More than one car-share: 10 points
Bike-share: 5 points
Bike racks galore: 2 points

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idevin:

Stores selling items (food or otherwise) with bacon and/or mustaches that wouldn’t otherwise logically include bacon and/or mustaches

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Michael Alexander:

Urban Fare, Choices or Whole Foods: 5 points.  No local greengrocer: 10 points. (Coal Harbour gets 10, Yaletown 7 because the greengrocer is mostly a salad and juice bar.)

Bike shop that only sells fixies or with bikes priced at $5,000 and up: 10 points.

Organic-vegan-celiac only restaurant: 10 points.

Bespoke toddler’s clothier: 20 points

Restaurant with no name on front, website, or phone number: 10 points

More than three doggie/kitty clothing, toy and portrait stores in three blocks: 15 points

Bakery that only sells macaroons in rainbow colours: 5 points

Coffee house that only does drip coffee through two storey high chemistry lab equipment; no espresso: 5 points.

Any place with indoor bike racks, with valet, 15 points. Only bike ever there is the 56 year old owner’s $11,000 Canyon Aeroad Tour de France team bike: 20 points.

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Dianna:

Bakery with Parisian salespeople that only sells earth tone macaroons: 10 points. (Rainbow macaroons are totally 2013 un-gentrification. They’re sold at Safeway, for heaven’s sake.)

Dentist who includes massage, yoga, and meditation with each tooth cleaning. Uses only enviro-friendly products. At the door trade your shoes for slippers. 5 points for each of these.  (See above!)

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Yuri Artibise:

A ‘running’ crew, a la East Van Run Crew

Community maintained bee hives

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) food box drop-off point

Neighbourhood specific blog/twitter account

Controversial (publicly funded) public art

Specified bike lanes (bonus pints for separated)

Wine bar with wine served from casks

Specialty electric scooter shop

Co-working location

Pop-up shops/galleries

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Can you do better?  Add them to the comments or tweet to @pricetags, and I’ll post on this list.