Wonder why housing is so expensive? (Boston: versus, racism, Irish)

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by massnative71

Wow was Meath Rd. where the term "hic-hop" originated?




Yep, bringing that Natty Ice in by the stack.


https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2886...7i16384!8i8192


Definitely a Fall River vibe around there, or maybe a West Warwick, RI.

Dundalk is like this:

when they were casting for the movie ‘White Boy Rick’ in 2018 which is about a 15-year-old white drug dealer/guns runner on the east side of Detroit in the 1980s... production went to Dundalk High School to cast the main character...whine they actually found in the principals office waiting to be disciplined. Casted him on the spot

Young Star of ‘White Boy Rick’ Was Discovered in the Principal’s Office

He so Dundalk the kid's name is Richie Merritt as in Merritt Boulevard-one of the major thoroughfares in Dundalk. He never acted before they just cast him in the spot, that’s the Dundalk vibes. The kid had never even heard of Matthew McConnaughey


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbO027FRRx8

Has a bit of a black Baltimore accent. I don't hear the white "Bawlmer accent" so much


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reCQJ_5NQk

[bigfatdude]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Yea but really, Id say maybe up to 40% of the impoverished white population could be students. There's no visible white poverty in Boston to speak of outside of a few people in housing developments in Southie Allston and maybe Eastie? Maybe a few blocks near Fields corner/Adams Street?

If it were so close in number to black poverty why is Black poverty much more visible in Boston?

Because it was explained already many times but apparently you can't read? Or perhaps you selectively lose your ability to read when you see something that does not fit your agenda?

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Dundalk is like this:

when they were casting for the movie ‘White Boy Rick’ in 2018 which is about a 15-year-old white drug dealer/guns runner on the east side of Detroit in the 1980s... production went to Dundalk High School to cast the main character...whine they actually found in the principals office waiting to be disciplined. Casted him on the spot

Young Star of ‘White Boy Rick’ Was Discovered in the Principal’s Office

He so Dundalk the kid's name is Richie Merritt as in Merritt Boulevard-one of the major thoroughfares in Dundalk. He never acted before they just cast him in the spot, that’s the Dundalk vibes. The kid had never even heard of Matthew McConnaughey


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbO027FRRx8

Has a bit of a black Baltimore accent. I don't hear the white "Bawlmer accent" so much


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reCQJ_5NQk

How is this any different than turtle boy ?

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by msRB311

How is this any different than turtle boy ?

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[jetgraphics]

A house shell can be quite inexpensive - if concrete.
Let us calculate the amount of concrete needed to build a six sided cube, from 36' x 36' x 0.33' panels.
36 x 36 x 0.33 = 16 cu yds.
6 panels (4 walls + 2 floor / ceiling) = 95.999
Roughly 96 cubic yards.
Check local concrete companies for prices.
Assume concrete is $130 cy, then the material cost for the concrete shell is $12,478.75.
(Each additional floor panel costs approx. $2080, add $6k for 3 panels to make (4) 8.75' stories)
4 floors x 36 x 36 = 5,184 sq. ft. ; $3.67 per square foot enclosed


If you and your friends can finish out the wiring and plumbing and so forth, you won't have to shell out as much.

[bigfatdude]

Back to the linked article - can someone smarter than me explain how what's essentially an attempt to remove a squatter who's refusing to leave after the lease has ended suddenly morphed into a heartstring-tugging, tear-inducing no-fault eviction?

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Dundalk is like this:

when they were casting for the movie ‘White Boy Rick’ in 2018 which is about a 15-year-old white drug dealer/guns runner on the east side of Detroit in the 1980s... production went to Dundalk High School to cast the main character...whine they actually found in the principals office waiting to be disciplined. Casted him on the spot

Young Star of ‘White Boy Rick’ Was Discovered in the Principal’s Office

He so Dundalk the kid's name is Richie Merritt as in Merritt Boulevard-one of the major thoroughfares in Dundalk. He never acted before they just cast him in the spot, that’s the Dundalk vibes. The kid had never even heard of Matthew McConnaughey


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbO027FRRx8

Has a bit of a black Baltimore accent. I don't hear the white "Bawlmer accent" so much


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reCQJ_5NQk

Was that actually filmed in Detroit, I wonder why they went all the way to Dundalk? No "8 Mile"ish suburbs around Detroit anymore, where they could have found a real life character of that type?

[bigfatdude]

Originally Posted by jetgraphics

A house shell can be quite inexpensive - if concrete.
Let us calculate the amount of concrete needed to build a six sided cube, from 36' x 36' x 0.33' panels.
36 x 36 x 0.33 = 16 cu yds.
6 panels (4 walls + 2 floor / ceiling) = 95.999
Roughly 96 cubic yards.
Check local concrete companies for prices.
Assume concrete is $130 cy, then the material cost for the concrete shell is $12,478.75.
(Each additional floor panel costs approx. $2080, add $6k for 3 panels to make (4) 8.75' stories)
4 floors x 36 x 36 = 5,184 sq. ft. ; $3.67 per square foot enclosed


If you and your friends can finish out the wiring and plumbing and so forth, you won't have to shell out as much.

Except it will take several years and seven figures worth of lawyer fees to get the permits and a whole army of union goons at $150+/hour each to pour the said concrete, and needless to say every last one of them and their backups will be on the clock every last second until that concrete dries and cures. And it will be very, very slow-drying concrete - at least a year from start to finish.

Oh, and you'll need another army of union goons to do everything else, because projects that don't hire an army of union goons tend to catch on fire and burn to the ground.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by massnative71

Was that actually filmed in Detroit, I wonder why they went all the way to Dundalk? No "8 Mile"ish suburbs around Detroit anymore, where they could have found a real life character of that type?

I kinda doubt it. Detroit’s suburbs are super segregated and I don’t know if the integrated ones are working class in vibe. You can find pretty abundant working class fairly urban white youth in Dundalk.

it needed to be an environment where you have some degree of meaningful interaction with black people on the daily to play a 1985 detroiter. I could imagine this so somewhat of a difficult demographic to sing in 2021z because they’re not looking for ‘trailer park’ necessarily but not someone fully immersed in hip hop culture either. 2018 Dundalk probably strikes just the right cord. Dundalk high is about a 22% black and 45% white, East Baltimore is literally down the road about 10 minutes, it’s working class and industrial. It was a fantastic casting and a really solid movie that leaves you feeling really bad for the kid.

I’m just marveled by the casting process.

[masssachoicetts]

As someone who had family from Southie at one time (Mostly Irish people from Dorchester, but still), I dont have nearly as much sympathy as I do for the folks in Mattapan who are institutionally, systematically and economically oppressed.

Nah. Just nah.