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Why do people do this in nyc? I can understand during the summer when its really in hot in your apt but its the winter! There even outside early morning and its freezing. How can a non child be outside just chilling at 3am on a tuesday, don't they have work?I don't get it.
Why do people do this in nyc? I can understand during the summer when its really in hot in your apt but its the winter! There even outside early morning and its freezing. How can a non child be outside just chilling at 3am on a tuesday, don't they have work?I don't get it.
What's a non child?
and for the record, wherever there's a hood, people will do that. I live in a gated complex and sometimes in the summer people bring their portable fold-up chairs outside and have a drink because they don't feel like being cooped up indoors.
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I can tell you alot of people "chill" outside because their home lives are far worse than enduring bone chilling temps. You can have 6+ people easily packed into a dilapidated and small 2 bedroom apt (grandmother, mother and her "friend", daughter and her 2 kids for example). Throw in the fact that nobody works so everyone is in the apt all day and night, with rarely if ever any privacy or time for yourself, add in substance abuse like drugs and alcohol, add in resulting violence/dysfunction from the substance abuse/no time to yourself/everyone always broke/living in subpar conditions, and you can see why people would prefer to stand around all day and night with their friends outside rather than be home and get yelled at by everyone all the time.
Riversidedr, I feel your pain. I've lived near Broadway in the 130-s for a few years. I hate it with a passion, and now that I have a tiny bit of money saved up, I am moving. Moving before the warm sets in and EVERYONE starts to hang out directly below my window, with their loud voices and gorrendous so called music. They don't care and cops don't care. Good luck... and get out before you go nuts. Although if your bedroom does not face the street, like mine does, you should do ok.
What's a non child?
and for the record, wherever there's a hood, people will do that. I live in a gated complex and sometimes in the summer people bring their portable fold-up chairs outside and have a drink because they don't feel like being cooped up indoors.
i. I didn't want to write adult since its usually ppl of the age older then children but not fathers and mothers out there. 16-25 seems about the age
SobroGuy is absolutely correct. Plus, they have no jobs and don't look for jobs, because they are low-lives on welfare. Eternally. I don't feel bad for them even in the slightest. They create the conditions they live in and don't even attempt to get out. They like to live that way. Driving normal, hardworking, educated people like me away from an otherwise pretty neighborhood by a wonderful park and a river.
Riversidedr, I feel your pain. I've lived near Broadway in the 130-s for a few years. I hate it with a passion, and now that I have a tiny bit of money saved up, I am moving. Moving before the warm sets in and EVERYONE starts to hang out directly below my window, with their loud voices and gorrendous so called music. They don't care and cops don't care. Good luck... and get out before you go nuts. Although if our bedroom does not face the street, like mine does, you should do ok.
It doesn't bother me, just seems strange to be outside in the cold.
@sobroguy-that makes sense but they can't all have life situations like that. This is nyc, which is really expensive. How can they afford to live here. I'm not talking about the projects here either, regular buildings. There prob not on welfare, you need to have children to on welfare.
Come to think of it, I only see that in the projects though its not limited to other places. That could be the only place or time they get to spend with friends and/or neighbors. Or maybe that's where they do their business.
Puff, puff, pass baby.
the reason, according to my professor back when i was in college, is because ppl don't have a yard.
i never thought about it before but it makes sense. ppl with yards hang out in that general area. ppl without hang outside of where they live. either way, we socialize or just chill that way.
I believe it's their culture. Instead of playing video games, watching TV, or surfing the web, they choose to hang out in front of a building or inside the lobby.
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