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Old 08-20-2016, 10:27 PM
 
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It doesn't seem ghetto at all when I'm there
That's cause it isn't ghetto. That is a term white people use for lower working class neighborhoods filled with black people. Woodside queens was filled with low class white people too, yet no one called it ghetto. And btw, half those snobs calling PLG ghetto can't afford to buy there. Ha!!!
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Old 08-21-2016, 12:26 AM
 
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Old 08-21-2016, 12:38 AM
 
Location: Glendale NY
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That's cause it isn't ghetto. That is a term white people use for lower working class neighborhoods filled with black people. Woodside queens was filled with low class white people too, yet no one called it ghetto. And btw, half those snobs calling PLG ghetto can't afford to buy there. Ha!!!
Yeah I never hear people say Woodside Queens is ghetto, even though Woodside doesn't have many white people in it.....
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Old 08-21-2016, 07:42 AM
 
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Good for you caveman
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Old 08-21-2016, 08:29 AM
 
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That's cause it isn't ghetto. That is a term white people use for lower working class neighborhoods filled with black people. Woodside queens was filled with low class white people too, yet no one called it ghetto. And btw, half those snobs calling PLG ghetto can't afford to buy there. Ha!!!
I definitely agree that race plays a huge role in how communities are perceived, it is starting to get better though.
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Old 08-21-2016, 09:56 AM
 
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That's cause it isn't ghetto. That is a term white people use for lower working class neighborhoods filled with black people. Woodside queens was filled with low class white people too, yet no one called it ghetto. And btw, half those snobs calling PLG ghetto can't afford to buy there. Ha!!!
I agree but I don't think there are many working class whites left in Woodside.

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I definitely agree that race plays a huge role in how communities are perceived, it is starting to get better though.
Yep, you can see it got better just by looking at CD posts over the years. I think the white flight mentality has been fading away.
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Old 08-21-2016, 10:18 AM
 
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That's cause it isn't ghetto. That is a term white people use for lower working class neighborhoods filled with black people. Woodside queens was filled with low class white people too, yet no one called it ghetto. And btw, half those snobs calling PLG ghetto can't afford to buy there. Ha!!!
Note that the OP recently posted a thread where he companied about his roommate situation but is stuck with it because he is unable to afford to live on his own. So yeah...LMAO!!!
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Old 08-21-2016, 10:55 AM
 
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I agree but I don't think there are many working class whites left in Woodside.
Why is that?

I feel like until 10-15 years ago it was a white working class neighborhood.
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Old 08-21-2016, 11:01 AM
 
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Why is that?

I feel like until 10-15 years ago it was a white working class neighborhood.
White flight? It seems like blue collar whites have left areas like that, Bensonhurst and Ozone Park too for example.

This is different from the white flight of the 60s and 70s in places like The South Bronx.
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Old 08-21-2016, 04:22 PM
 
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White flight? It seems like blue collar whites have left areas like that, Bensonhurst and Ozone Park too for example.
Where did they go?
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