Went to school on a full ride the past five years in NYC. I feel bad because I was a passive observer but clearly saw the trending of white folks and rich minorities to places like Bed Stuy, Chinatown (yes the Whites are penetrating that area somewhat), East Harlem and now Crown Heights
This thread really put SO MUCH in perspective. All the projects in the LES that I use to see are all co-opts now. Living in Harlem and taking that 6 train home from work
If you have job experience, skills, and or an education, you should come down South. I'm from Atlanta and I'm kind of at a crossroads where to call home, but in the few months being back here, I've had TONS of job offers. It's cheap and as long as you live close to the city, you can have enough things to do to kind of fill the void of not having the immediacy of NYC. If you like Black women and snow bunnies then ain't a place better.
Why live in a city where you are a renter when you could own a house, have cake left over and start a small business? Black folks up North and out West messed up back in the day but yall gotta get it right this time around. The next time they try to come into our neighborhoods, we need to have them on lockdown.
when that Chinese waiter nikka came through and started spitting that Spanish at her... I got a couple Dominican spots I need to hit in Washington Heights next time too.
unless you have a medical condition
) to Burning Man. For the life of me, I couldn't even figure out how they could afford to live there judging on their jobs because it had to be atleast a 3,000 a month loft...there was obvious parent financial support.
And you an get cheap houses near downtown too 
today.
