Gossip Girl Ruining New York?

I think not.

But this Tom Acitelli New York Observer Real Estate piece is interesting nonetheless.

And I do agree with them---it would be tragic if middle Americans decided to move here. But I am just crossing my fingers that it won't make it that far. I mean, it is on the channel that was formerly the WB right? Only people like me watch that shit and I'm already here :)

A highlight from the column,
"As it stands now, Gossip Girl is spreading throughout the United States a disjunctive, distorted, ultimately dangerous, view of what buys what in New York City right now, and the show's doing so mostly through its depiction of real estate. Like Friends in the 1990's and Sex and the City earlier this decade, Gossip Girl is giving the impression to Suzy in Nebraska and Mandy in Alabama (and Clay from Texas) that real estate in New York is as affordable as anywhere and that poor in New York means living in a $2 million Williamsburg loft."

and another one

"So, when the average L train stop starts looking like the opening scenes of Heathers, don't say we didn't warn you. And to those of you who're going to move to this city after absorbing the mental marketing of Gossip Girl, please, when you wash out about five years from now—six, tops—don't move in next-door and play your TV loud. We don't want to hear it."