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by mwattsun 922 days ago
I feel a certain kind of sadness about it. There's not a word for the loss of your home town in English that I'm aware of, but there's a song that comes close to it.

Pretenders - My City Was Gone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu8DWsirJo

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"Gentrification-induced displacement" doesn't roll off the tongue very well, unfortunately.