Gentrification is great for coffee shops as well. I said in a comment the other day that in five years you'll be able to by a scented candle or a dog coat on every block and that in away the neighborhood won't be much different than it is now, filled with things that I dislike which only tangentially effect me. My gentrification goal is to have a hot summers day where I have more customers than I see men without shirts walk by. I know that day will come. The Somali guy is really a sweet hearted looser. He gets sooooo high on crack and malt liquor that he's not captain of his own ship any more. He's also a real pain in the ass and makes a huge scene every where he goes. People say I should call the cops on him but I just can't. He's already a burden on his strict Islamic family and they aren't rolling in dough to pay his tickets or fines.
Not gonna lie, dude. I did a thunderous demographic analysis with veen's help when we sited the birth center. But before I put my faith in my own math (15-minute isochrones containing the highest number of white women 25-35 with some college education, from census data), I mapped out all the Whole Foods Markets. 100% correlation. Out of 150 midwives in LA, there are 4 that aren't within 10 minutes of a Whole Foods. Then just to see, I looked for a negative correlation - I decided that Five Guys' market demographics probably overlapped the alternative birth community by coincidence at best. 0% correlation.
cgod and kleinbl00 we ought to have an entire post on how to best handle tantrums. My daughter is very smart, I would be shocked if yours weren't too. As such, she has become adept at trying to manipulate situations to her advantage. I would welcome a post on dicipline at some point. Good luck fellas