Cave Savage
Feminist
That's like a full hour away from Manhattan by subway, right? Which many people wouldn't mind but it seems like this dude wants to live in the middle of everything.
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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CashmereThoughts
Veteran
32 mins from the last stop on the L (rockaway parkway) to the 1st stop in manhattan. Problem is alotta people gotta take a bus to the train here in Canarsie so that makes it an hour if your not walking dist to the L
You left Rochdale? Hows Canarsie?
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
i live in a working class condo community so its decent. but this is just a step i did a 6 month lease, my job game stepped up so ill be moving to park slope in jan
Cave Savage
Feminist
And then it's even more time if you have to go somewhere else in Manhattan
And how was Rochdale when you left? Did the hallways still smell like sewage?
Park Slope is trash, use that same bread to be in Fort Greene.
nikkas dont give a fukk anymore. They will do that until they be forced to live in upstate NY or in the south. Crack really fukked up the chance of generational wealth.
Have u been in prison the last 20 years
A 1 BR in a prime location in NYC is gonna run you at least $3K
U can get a decent place in a 2nd tier location (Astoria, Prospect Heights, Upper East Side) for like $2K.
Don't forget u save a good amount of money not having a car. Everything me n wifey save on rent, we end up paying in gas, insurance and my toys
But at the end of the day, eventually u have to decide what you're gonna do at 40, 50, 60.... financially, moving to NYC makes no sense as there is no way you will be able to build equity or have any kind of quality of life with a family or in old age on a $2K for rent budget. So its either move there and blow a hundred K or so to say you did it... or move somewhere "boring" and sock money away.
I moved to Charlotte after 28 yrs in NYC and it's been the best move I ever made. Charlottes not NYC and it never will be.... but it has its own things going that in many ways are just as satisfying. NYC is still the greatest city in the world, but in the last ~15 years it's become a terrible place to live for anyone but the young and/or rich.
Pretty much. With more yuppies moving in, NYC loses its flavor and is turning to another Seattle with more historical sites. shyt, if you rent, you already assed out because you don't even have a chance to save anything.
True, them old ass hood nikkas were just trouble back in the 80s and 90s. Problem is, they wanted to "keep it real" and pulled down their own people in the process. Maino is one of them old school hood nikkas, but they are shrinking in population.
Every day I walk around Crown Heights I'm like "Where did all the black people go?"
Only good thing about gentrification is the level of fitness has increased. Gyms popping up all over the place. Black women out there jogging in droves.
But yall keep talking about "black people not owning anything". Black people DID own their homes, but they either sold them or are renting them out and have moved elsewhere. Hell my old building had two successive black landlords before the last one sold it to a Jew.
Yeha, I see a lot more fit black women than 15 years ago. Back then, you saw blocks of nothing but fat minority women.
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
Not in my building , I'm not gonna front tho my circle was an open air drug market at night tho.
