New York City Is Turning Into Abu Dhabi

[Strapped]

Interesting...this is news to me

lol

 

[Amphibious]

NY fell off hard.

 

[KingMalik]

I grew up wanting to go there. Now I could care less. It's fun to visit (I just went last month) but, I swear the minute I came back home, I forgot it existed. My chick has some deluded fantasy about moving there. I was with it but, I'm having second thoughts. She's 22, so its expected. I just turned 26 so I'm over the NYC thing. You can have a palace here (Philly) for what they pay for a regular 2 bedroom up there. Fukk that.

 

[newworldafro]

Already a fantastic thread on this http://www.thecoli.com/threads/my-nyc-black-folk-gentrification.10793/ ... but slowly it is...

 

[Stay Seeking]

yup....and the funny thing...nyc is so run down


these dumbass hipsters pay 3k a month to live across from the projects

and live completely autonomous from the people who have lived there for generations.

 

[Stay Seeking]

NY fell off hard.

I wouldn't calling it "falling off", but I'd definitely say it's becoming less affordable, and even less convenient for anyone making under 60K.

 

[Cynic]

ny= the place people move to after highschool /college to pretend to be something they're not

That's LA dummy......

 

[Stay Seeking]

That's LA dummy......

...New York too.

 

[beanz]

Expensive and run down in some spots

But we still the capital of the world

 

[beenz]

yup....and the funny thing...nyc is so run down


these dumbass hipsters pay 3k a month to live across from the projects

that's the thing about NYC that's

there are so many parts that are so run down and raggedy because it's such an old city.

 

[Wild self]

Expensive and run down in some spots

But we still the capital of the world

Humanity ain't shyt. How can NYC be a word class city if it doesn't have proper standards of living? It's a big city, yes, but not the best.

 

[SirReginald]

Basically sums it up

 

[beanz]

Humanity ain't shyt. How can NYC be a word class city if it doesn't have proper standards of living? It's a big city, yes, but not the best.

i dont think thats based on quality of the city. its more so because people outside of this country always think of NYC when they think of america. u can literally find large communities of EVERY nationality in the nyc area. no other city in the world can say that.

but quality wise i wont argue. this city is too expensive for no reason. but like they say if u make it here u can make it anywhere.

 

[Yinny]

ny= the place people move to after highschool /college to pretend to be something they're not

ha, what's great is the people who say they're "from" here; yeah, that whole 2-3 years of your life

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I would love to live in a penthouse in Manhattan the views are to die for.

U would be better to go to the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Or buy a poster

Views from up above are cool... but then u gotta go downstairs and be shuffled around like a rat.

~10-20 yrs ago NYC peaked... u could live in the city for cheap, but it wasnt dangerous. Now its just overpriced