I've been looking at some investment property in East Portland. I backed away because it's so scary east of 82nd! Maybe I should reconsider.

Ten Red's letter could have been written by every gentrifier ever who just got there before the wave. His neighborhood is on the developers' radar, even if he doesn't know it. In 10 MORE years, he'll be renting out that basement for the inflation-adjusted equivalent of his rent at good ol' 20th and Hawthorne.

If you're having to complain about your neighbors being "whistleblowers", maybe you're the shitty neighbor.