Escaping the global city?

‘Everybody loves living here’

“…Fong et al (2019), for example, remark that 'epidemiologists have recently begun to investigate the impact of gentrification as a public health concern', while Schnake-Mahl et al (2020, p. 3) argue that a 'cascade of health consequences' may be associated with displacement. Investigations have focused on the health of both people displaced from a locality and among disadvantaged groups remaining in a gentrifying area, plus attention has been paid to how impacts vary among residents differentiated by age and race (Dragan et al, 2019;Gibbons & Barton, 2016;, while Parish (2019) has noted a rise in private 'wellness' businesses in some gentrified areas. Many studies employ arguments akin to discussions of economic and social well-being, focusing on the health impacts of poverty and social networks (e.g.…”