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The definition of "yuppie" for with limited urban slang: Yuppie", short for "Young Urban Professional," describes a demographic of people comprising baby boomers as well as people in their late twenties and early thirties. Yuppies tend to hold jobs in the professional sector, with incomes that place them in the upper-middle economic class.
Kill a yuppie' graffiti plaguing Davis Sq.
By Brock Parker/ Somerville Journal
Thursday, October 6, 2005
SOMERVILLE, MA --``Kill a yuppie'' graffiti being sprayed in Somerville have police and city residents on alert.
The threats are cropping up in toddler parks, businesses and libraries.
``We're very concerned with some of the words that are being put up,'' police Lt. Paul Upton said of the vandalism outbreak around Davis Square.
Public works crews are scrambling to sandblast the yuppie-hating messages away, but the hatred may not be so easy to erase.
Danny McLaughlin, 23, said the ``kill a yuppie'' message started recently among neighborhood kids because blue-collar and immigrant families have been ``priced out'' of Somerville by increasing property values.
``(Those kids') lives aren't getting any better,'' he said. ``It's getting them angry that newcomers don't recognize the real issues.''
Stop rationalizing moronic behavior.
John L. Sullivan, a candidate for alderman, said the city needs to offer youth programs to give kids something to do other than frighten residents.
The MA pol's solution to everything: More socialism.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...ticleid=105769
The definition of "yuppie" for with limited urban slang: Yuppie", short for "Young Urban Professional," describes a demographic of people comprising baby boomers as well as people in their late twenties and early thirties. Yuppies tend to hold jobs in the professional sector, with incomes that place them in the upper-middle economic class.
Kill a yuppie' graffiti plaguing Davis Sq.
By Brock Parker/ Somerville Journal
Thursday, October 6, 2005
SOMERVILLE, MA --``Kill a yuppie'' graffiti being sprayed in Somerville have police and city residents on alert.
The threats are cropping up in toddler parks, businesses and libraries.
``We're very concerned with some of the words that are being put up,'' police Lt. Paul Upton said of the vandalism outbreak around Davis Square.
Public works crews are scrambling to sandblast the yuppie-hating messages away, but the hatred may not be so easy to erase.
Danny McLaughlin, 23, said the ``kill a yuppie'' message started recently among neighborhood kids because blue-collar and immigrant families have been ``priced out'' of Somerville by increasing property values.
``(Those kids') lives aren't getting any better,'' he said. ``It's getting them angry that newcomers don't recognize the real issues.''
Stop rationalizing moronic behavior.
John L. Sullivan, a candidate for alderman, said the city needs to offer youth programs to give kids something to do other than frighten residents.
The MA pol's solution to everything: More socialism.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...ticleid=105769