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Well I'll take an improved neighborhood of obnoxious yuppies who are aesthetically easier on the eye to look at than a ghetto neighborhood that looks run down, full of thugs, gangsters, hoodrats, and drug dealers. Because its exactly those neighborhoods that yuppies have moved into and improved. By not supporting yuppies, you are indirectly supporting the "hood" and all the social ills it brings to the community. There's no two ways about it.
How am I supporting The "hood"?? I dont support the yuppies b/c the want to turn EVERYTHING in to manhattan.
You talk about ghetto people on section 8 but how are they different from these yuppie wannabe "artist" who's parents are supporting them and they get drunk...throw parties and do drugs just like the trash you want to get rid of..
How am I supporting The "hood"?? I dont support the yuppies b/c the want to turn EVERYTHING in to manhattan.
You talk about ghetto people on section 8 but how are they different from these yuppie wannabe "artist" who's parents are supporting them and they get drunk...throw parties and do drugs just like the trash you want to get rid of..
I know so if one doesn't aspire to the shallow yuppie lifestyle where life is just about buying the right labels & "associating" with only those whom you perceive are from the same socioeconomic class as yourself means that you are a ghetto 'person' on section 8??
And call it what you want -- but many of these transplanted yuppies had ALOT of help and were fortunate enough to choose the right parents and inherit enough money to invest..
You seriously don't think that many of these yuppies made it solely from "Hard Work" right??
I disagree. I think poverty breeds worse monsters. There are more poor people in the US than wealthy people. There are also way more "hoods" or ghettos in the US than ritzy, uppity wealthy neighborhoods. Wealthy people only make up 1% of the population in the US. Being poor is a CULTURE in its own right. A negative culture at that thats contagious.
I don't think that is true. If you are making $100,000 a year (1 person) you are in the top 20% and there was recently a study that showed that the greatest increase in incomes was among those making over $100,000 a year (the top 20%) than in the lower income classes (say under $50,000 a year per person). That is why the middle class is 'shrinking', because many moved into the higher earning classes. A there are way less ghettos or 'hoods' in the USA now than there were 20 or 25 years ago
Wow, are you serious? I never though they would look into that area, it's not even close to Manhattan.
There is no area called Cypress Hills. It was always known as Bushwick.
BTW, who the hell made up all these cutesy names of existing neighborhoods like FiDi, MePa?? Yes, my family is still in the NYC area but really you find that if you aren't like one of these yuppies you don't fit in & I don't mean (ghetto, brown or other racist BS packaged as socioeconomic excuses people give).
Nothing wrong with being educated, rich (or richer) or sophisticated or all of the above. It's when people start acting like they are the shi* too much and disregard everyone else who is different and especially less rich as second class peasants.
There is no area called Cypress Hills. It was always known as Bushwick.
BTW, who the hell made up all these cutesy names of existing neighborhoods like FiDi, MePa?? Yes, my family is still in the NYC area but really you find that if you aren't like one of these yuppies you don't fit in & I don't mean (ghetto, brown or other racist BS packaged as socioeconomic excuses people give).
Real Estate agents and brokers are the ones behind most of these made up neighborhoods.
There is no area called Cypress Hills. It was always known as Bushwick.
BTW, who the hell made up all these cutesy names of existing neighborhoods like FiDi, MePa?? Yes, my family is still in the NYC area but really you find that if you aren't like one of these yuppies you don't fit in & I don't mean (ghetto, brown or other racist BS packaged as socioeconomic excuses people give).
Ummm, Cypress Hills is a neighborhood. It's the area north of Atlantic Avenue, South of Cypress Hills cemetery, East of Pennsylvania Avenue, and west of Elderts Lane. It's sometimes considered a sub section of East New York, but never Bushwick. And that area's been bad for quite awhile now.
There is no area called Cypress Hills. It was always known as Bushwick.
BTW, who the hell made up all these cutesy names of existing neighborhoods like FiDi, MePa?? Yes, my family is still in the NYC area but really you find that if you aren't like one of these yuppies you don't fit in & I don't mean (ghetto, brown or other racist BS packaged as socioeconomic excuses people give).
One more thing, white people doesn't automatically equate to yuppies and hipsters... People have become so scared of white people being hipsters in NYC than they assume every white person that moves into a working class area is automatically a hipster... I still have family in Cypress Hills in East NY and that area has always had some white folks in the area even though the numbers are small... The majority of the white folks that you see there have been there for years or if they're new they are either Russian or second/third generation Italians from what I see...
The area is still 95% Black/Hispanic/Indian and it's a decent working class area of East NY that deals with some problems but isn't what most would associate with hood...
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