Bronx Rents

[pierrepont7731]

Originally Posted by jc718

The meth heads mostly hang near the Chipotle which is why I don't travel to get any. I don't have the patience.

Yeah a lot of the residents do love the those type of stores because that's what they can afford. I think all people like variety of things. Even if others think they aren't great in quality but if you can't afford something on a regular basis I wouldn't want it in my backyard either.

That's an absurd way to think about things. There is a farm-to-table organic place in my neighborhood that is probably more expensive than some of the other organic places that I frequent in Manhattan, but I still go there. When people talk about a lack of amenities well you either have tons of $.99 cent stores, chicken spots, bodegas and diners or you have nice sit-down places. Yes, they cost more, but that's the way it is these days.

[elnrgby]

Originally Posted by NYer23

College graduation isn't everything and there are study that show hispanic social economic mobility continues to increase to the point that after a few generations, hispanic children have the same rate of economic outcome as white. Obviously not all immigrants reach the social economic attainment of a first generation asian immigrant, but over multiple generation they all reach similar outcome. The only exception has been for african americans who through high level of incarceration and the break up of the family nucleus has led them to persistently be at the bottom.

Well, I know a lot of highly trained African American professionals; actually I happen to know more African American physicians than Latino ones. According to that theory of broken family nucleus, every child of divorced parents regardless of their race would be at high risk of incarceration and low educational attainment. "Privileged-race" losers really enjoy believing that minorities are so terribly historically disadvantaged that they can never get ahead, because that gives those losers a consolation that there is somebody worse off than them, whom they can pity, patronize, and provide with pathetic welfare handouts. All minority professionals I have ever known cringed at that kind of pity, and at all the elaborate theories of why they should be unsuccessful (which they weren't).

[jc718]

Originally Posted by pierrepont7731

That's an absurd way to think about things. There is a farm-to-table organic place in my neighborhood that is probably more expensive than some of the other organic places that I frequent in Manhattan, but I still go there. When people talk about a lack of amenities well you either have tons of $.99 cent stores, chicken spots, bodegas and diners or you have nice sit-down places. Yes, they cost more, but that's the way it is these days.

Change is hard financially, mentally and physically when are exposed to different things.