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Seems more exciting. I see beauty and culture in my neighborhood-Bed Stuy/Bushwick. I like the 24 hour delis, how I can buy a loose cigarette (Newport, of course) for 50 cents, and hearing reggae, soca, and Latin music throughout the day.
And you can't beat the ghetto girl fashion during the summer. Absolutely priceless. I'm mystified as why these girls aren't working in the fashion houses of SoHo and such.
Buddy, there are 24-hour delis scattered throughout the entire New York City. And most people will give you a cigarette if you ask the right way or charge a dollar.
Buddy, there are 24-hour delis scattered throughout the entire New York City. And most people will give you a cigarette if you ask the right way or charge a dollar.
I happen to like it a bit too. Comparing where I am now (slightly ghetto) and where I grew up (nice suburbs), I'll take the ghetto. More happening, girls are hotter and dress like its 150 degrees out in summer time, lively. Although there are some people in the area I can't stand.
While I can't say I love the ghetto, it is much less ghetto than people realize, and 95% of the people are just trying to live their lives and want to move forward like everyone else. It's that 5% which makes everyone miserable, and ruins the area for everyone, and we 95% are stuck living among them.
It depends on the type of ghetto you're talking about. If it's something like Camden, NJ, parts of Newark where everything looks busted up and run-down then I would not want to be there.
If it's like the type of "ghetto" you described then yeah, it's definitely more fun than these new suburbs that everyone can't stop talking about where every house looks exactly the same with minor variation and most of the residents are on the brink of boredom-induced suicide.
I would live in a community you described (like Harlem, Jamaica and maybe parts of the BX) if I had no kids but I just wouldn't raise a family there since usually the schools are not too great, crime and kids tend to be more sexually active at a younger age. Oh and most of the males in such communities tend to be annoying, obnoxious and act like they have to prove themselves but I like the liveliness.
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Absolutely priceless. I'm mystified as why these girls aren't working in the fashion houses of SoHo and such.
