Years ago I took this photo of some graffiti on the abandoned hospital in my neighborhood:
At the time I thought it was funny because I had been living down the block from abandoned buildings for some time.
Since then, they have developed most of the land ...and my rent has doubled.
Don't you hate it when the joke turns out to be on you? That sucks. The last place I lived in this neighborhood we'd gotten lucky in having an absentee landlord who had no clue about the gentrification. A few months after I moved out my old roommates got the boot, I guess the landlord wised up and decided to cash in, wouldn't renew the lease so he could sell the place. It's a nice catch-22, you'd rather not have the abandoned stuff but the effects of new stuff coming in are usually worse.