Not Your Mothers Jersey Shore

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Five years after Hurricane Sandy destroyed communities along the shore,
some towns have used the rebuilding process as a time to reinvent themselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/realestate/hurricane-sandy-rebuilding-jersey-shore-towns.html?

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1. so those pesky poor people got washed away and now the wealthy are gentrifying the neighborhood nt

[Lotusflower70]

2. Money and power

“Before, it was mostly a blue-collar community where houses were passed down from one generation to the next and people weren’t doing a lot of major improvements. We’ve got a whole different thing going on here now, with 3,000- to 4,000-square-foot houses going up.”

So the history and flavor is gone and the generic blandness and snobbery has taken over.