Why do yuppies isolate themselves from the "regular" people in the neighborhood?

Question

A lot of yuppies have moved into my neighborhood. They keep to themselves. They put up fences between back yards. They open their own stores and restaurants and don't go to the regular neighborhood places. They almost always seem scared when walking down the street and won't even make eye contact and they never let their kids play in front or take them to the park. What's up with that?

Answer 1

Yuppies = Gentrification = Ethnic cleansing.  Yuppies are generally elitist snobs who talk a good game but don't care for anyone but themselves.  They moved into your neighborhood to be "chic" and to live in the city so they could have fancy dinner parties and serves tapas and cheeses for their s****. white bread coworkers.  They never invest themselves in the community.  They are afraid of you but they want to steal your neighborhood right from under you.  

The reason that you don't see their kids is probably because they don't have any or that their kids are young.  I have never seen teenagers in a yuppy neighborhood.  Why?  Because by the time their kids are ready to start school the yuppies move back out to whatever cookie cutter suburb they moved in from in the first place.  

Rest assured my friend that gentrification as we know it will soon be a thing of the past.  The implosion of the housing market, the tightening of lender purse strings, lenders dropping jumbo loans, the increase in urban crime and the decrease and hopefully eventual extinction of the yuppy population will all be contributing factors to the end of gentrification, or at least to a severe stifling of it.  

Answer 2

Fear...They only associated with other yuppie people...You can't be mad at them.  We live in a crazy world.  But as in any world we become attached to there are also crazy and not right people in those groups as well.  No one is safe anymore even us good ole regular people.

Answer 3

Because they think they are better than you and I

Answer 4

As you were! Who in h**l appointed you Grand Vizier

of Social Contact? Maybe they're as you say, maybe they're not. Immaterial either way. It's a wonderful thing when people are gracious and open toward one another, we all agree. But you've tried a jump that's a bit too high, friend. It does NOT follow that they owe you obiesance, turf cred, or anything else. And you do not in fact know what they feel or think. You never once spoke of any effort YOU could have made to break the ice. I used to live in Seattle; chock full of the very type of people you described. It didn't send me into therapy, though. I didn't need their validation to feel whole. Do you understand what I'm saying here? If, then cool; if not, also cool. You may have fooled some of your little friends with your whine, but I suspect your cry for attention from the new neighbors speaks to something else. In short, you want to know why you pulled my pin? You just pulled a phony problem out of thin air then martyred yourself over it. Don't squeak like that  -  it's bad form.