11-06-2023, 10:03 PM
(11-06-2023, 09:00 PM)Olive Wrote: More like 40 years ago. I bought a house in Grey Lynn in 1990 and gentrification was already well on the way.
Yes, it started in Ponsonby and gradually moved south to Grey Lynn. I had friends who were living in what were practically slums in the '80's...in the '70's it was the same thing going on in Ponsonby. I remember I always thought why would people buy these dumps at the time. The inner city was always a dive even over 100 years ago...who woulda thought eh ?
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