Man, is it tempting to pun off of Seoul. It is so alluring.
It will be difficult to resist when I head there on Friday, for work. Luckily I’m going with S, who speaks Korean. When pronounced properly, Seoul does not lend itself to puns. And anyway, the concept of a “soul,” such as it is, is most likely not a cognate across Korean and English.
Softer housing markets are likely to dampen the magnitude and the burden of displacement, or obviate it all together. In cities like Cleveland, with much vacant land and low-priced abandoned residential and commercial shells, developers can create attractive housing for newcomers without displacing existing renters or homeowners. In fact, rather than posing a problem and inciting opposition to community revitalization, the slow influx of newcomers seems a welcome change from decades of population loss and concentrated poverty.
