My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[Liquid]

BTW I'm still playing with the numbers with a possible relocation to NYC. I will make my decision sometime in April/May when I go visit for 2 weeks. I'm a numbers guy and personally I am getting a little bored of the bible belt and don't think moving back to Florida might be in my best interest. I mean where else am I going to go while I live in this country? Cali?

 

[-G$-]

1M for 2000 sq ft, no yard no nothing. And maintenance on top of that.

i used to complain about the maintenance too but i'm slowly learning when you own a house there are all sorts of costs associated w maintaining your own property too. landscaping, repairs, paint, paving, masonry etc. all that costs money and while it may not be a consistent stream of monthly payment like owning a condo/co op in a high rise it does in a net sense come out of your pocket in one way or another.

this thread is making me miss my place

 

[diggy]

Thats what happens when too many people dont give a fukk about their neighborhood other than just reppin where its from...Someone else will give a fukk about it more then take take it over. Turn that cheap realestate into a vacation spot. They doing that in parts of Palm Beach now (Riviera Beach to be exact). shyt finna go from Gunz and goonz to gayz with gazeboz.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

i used to complain about the maintenance too but i'm slowly learning when you own a house there are all sorts of costs associated w maintaining your own property too. landscaping, repairs, paint, paving, masonry etc. all that costs money and while it may not be a consistent stream of monthly payment like owning a condo/co op in a high rise it does in a net sense come out of your pocket in one way or another.

this thread is making me miss my place

Heres my thing doe

You have 2 condos right, one in a desirable neighborhood, one somewhere like Bay Ridge

Same size, same amenities, same quality of service... the maintenance at the more desirable place will be like 4x as much as the Bay Ridge place. When the supers and staff at both buildings do the same exact things. The whole thing is a fukking racket.

 

[-G$-]

Heres my thing doe

You have 2 condos right, one in a desirable neighborhood, one somewhere like Bay Ridge

Same size, same amenities, same quality of service... the maintenance at the more desirable place will be like 4x as much as the Bay Ridge place. When the supers and staff at both buildings do the same exact things. The whole thing is a fukking racket.

from my experience it has more to do w the shape of the overall building. my building was brand new so my maint payments were comparatively very low versus other condos in my neighborhood/area. maint payment calcs are also changing now due to new fannie and freddie lending regulations which require condos to maintain certain budget thresholds in order to be eligible for certain loans. it's really tied into a multitude of things, and not just a premium for being in a "luxury" neighborhood. but your point goes back to mine about home ownership. if you use the same analogy about bay ridge versus a more desirable neighborhood, and apply the same home prices to actual houses in suburbs it would suffice to say the more expensive home would have a larger property, bigger house, and more to maintain. really you'd expect to face larger costs in keeping the home in good shape anyway .

 

[ogc163]

I'm not OK with BLACK people leaving.
I'm not OK with BLACK people moving south.

FIXED

Don't front we all know how you feel about them white folks

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

BTW I'm still playing with the numbers with a possible relocation to NYC. I will make my decision sometime in April/May when I go visit for 2 weeks. I'm a numbers guy and personally I am getting a little bored of the bible belt and don't think moving back to Florida might be in my best interest. I mean where else am I going to go while I live in this country? Cali?

I hope you either are coming UN with a 6 figure job our don't plan to start a fam here

Sent from handheld Minority Report console

 

[Gallo]

I've spent half my life living other places.


NYC is where its at if you live in America

East coast or west coast breh. I'm taking my talents west. Now that i have my motorcycle I need that year round sunny weather.

 

[Mike Ock]

BTW I'm still playing with the numbers with a possible relocation to NYC. I will make my decision sometime in April/May when I go visit for 2 weeks. I'm a numbers guy and personally I am getting a little bored of the bible belt and don't think moving back to Florida might be in my best interest. I mean where else am I going to go while I live in this country? Cali?

Fuk living in manhattan and I'd say move to Queens...I'd say Brooklyn, but Queens is better spaced out, cleaner and easier parking. You might even luck up and get a condo in the bx as the surrounding area is on the come up.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Fuk living in manhattan and I'd say move to Queens...I'd say Brooklyn, but Queens is better spaced out, cleaner and easier parking. You might even luck up and get a condo in the bx as the surrounding area is on the come up.

It depends where in Queens parking wise. When I lived in Glendale/Ridgewood parking was a nightmare. If I came straight home after work I would find a spot but if I went home at night and by night I mean coming home after 8 sometime I would luck out and find a spot and a lot of time I would spend anywhere from 10-45 minutes trying to find a spot and anywhere from 3 blocks from my house to almost a mile away from my house. I had times I parked fully knowing I would come out the next day with a ticket on my car just because I was tired of looking for a spot and I just wanted to go home.

 

[Mike Ock]

It depends where in Queens parking wise. When I lived in Glendale/Ridgewood parking was a nightmare. If I came straight home after work I would find a spot but if I went home at night and by night I mean coming home after 8 sometime I would luck out and find a spot and a lot of time I would spend anywhere from 10-45 minutes trying to find a spot and anywhere from 3 blocks from my house to almost a mile away from my house. I had times I parked fully knowing I would come out the next day with a ticket on my car just because I was tired of looking for a spot and I just wanted to go home.

damn homey....I took salsa class over there, and yeah some weekends it was annoying finding parking...that area really isn't spread out, its damn near Brooklyn to be honest. Nice looking women over there though.

 

[bouncy]

I've spent half my life living other places.


NYC is where its at if you live in America

Yeah, it's the shyt when you want things to do, and have fun, but if you want that real money, I don't know if that is the case anymore. Things have changed.

Don't get me wrong, if you have a strong hustle spirit, know how to save & invest money, have a goal plan, NYC is where you want to be due to the fact that so many people are there, and with people comes money. If you are just a regular guy, looking for a job, and who doesn't deal with money the best way, but want the "white house& picket fence" with money in your account, very little debt, , I don't think you want NYC to be your stomping grounds. Just look at yourself, do you really want money to have the basics needs or to enjoy life the way a lot of Americans live.

I remember I used to say I would never leave NYC, and thought we was living it up. I was partly right. Yeah, we had the clothes stores, the nightclubs, the food spots, the multiculture, but most of us didn't own anything that made us money, regular jobs, and working paycheck to paycheck. Only a few got to experience NYC the way it was meant to be experienced, and that was people who had money to spend continuously. When I went down south, and saw the big houses, the mutli cars in the driveway, and doing a lot of what you want without people being on top of you, it made me think twice of NYC.

The goal is to have the best of both worlds. Get that NYC hustle money, enjoy the environment, and live the southern life. For me it is easy to go back & forth from the south to NYC, because I'm not that far from it, and I have the money to get on Amtrak on the weekends or drive when I feel like it.

Life is a hustle, and sometimes you got to switch up your hustles, when everyone else is doing what you're doing, if you want to get that real money to enjoy life to the fullest.

 

[Tommy Fits]

damn homey....I took salsa class over there, and yeah some weekends it was annoying finding parking...that area really isn't spread out, its damn near Brooklyn to be honest. Nice looking women over there though.

The spot over on I think 66th and Myrtle ? Whenever I went jogging I always made sure to slow down to check out the women dancing in their yoga pants

 

[Mike Ock]

The spot over on I think 66th and Myrtle ? Whenever I went jogging I always made sure to slow down to check out the women dancing in their yoga pants

Yeah...Lorenzo's, my goooood 98% of the women were good looks in my class ...i stayed with the wood in that class. Then Fri and Sat night's are social nights, which pretty much are just party nights with nothing but spanish music playing. Soooo many good looking women there. It just confirmed what I already knew about spanish women as a group being the best looks as far as women.

just reminiscing about it...unfortunately, my ex moved in with me and wasn't into it, so there went my on the weekends. But I still have enough to get it in at lounges when the music comes on.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

BTW I'm still playing with the numbers with a possible relocation to NYC. I will make my decision sometime in April/May when I go visit for 2 weeks. I'm a numbers guy and personally I am getting a little bored of the bible belt and don't think moving back to Florida might be in my best interest. I mean where else am I going to go while I live in this country? Cali?

Cali livin or New Yawk basically. That Cali weather is a life changer. But god damn driving in so cal fukking sucks