Bernie Sanders uses gentrification in Greenville to make national political point again

[Uncle Joe]

4. He could have but his mom never survived her dream of leaving their rent controlled apartment and

do you how expensive 85 acres is in Brooklyn!?

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Sanders, 73, the independent senator turned Democratic presidential candidate, has called Vermont home for almost all of his entire adult life. It started when he was around 13 years old, a fascination with the Green Mountain State born in glossy real estate guides.

"We picked up the brochures," Sanders says. "We read them and we saw farms were for sale."

And then after college, in the mid-1960s, Sanders, his then-wife and his brother pooled some inheritance money and bought a small piece of the dream.

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"We had never been to Vermont in our lives; we just drove up," Sanders says. "We bought 85 acres for $2,500. How's that? But it was woodland."

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https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/20/415747576/leaving-brooklyn-bernie-sanders-found-home-in-vermont

Some people are urban and some are more rural by nature, there is nothing wrong with either.