Black guy flips out about Gentrification and causes a scene at subway station (New York: low income, fit in)
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I resent this because I dislike living or even being around them. I do not find them interesting. I refuse to move back downtown, to the place where I lived most of my life, for that reason.
Great cities don't shut their doors to certain people because you don't want to be around them. NYC will always have rich people, "transplants", fresh-out-of-college dreamers and the like no matter what. Gentrification even went on during the darkest periods of the 1970s (heck, I would argue NYC's rampant gentrification is a direct result of the city becoming so bad back then. NYC became so cheap that artists and yuppies simply poured in despite the decay. Something similar has happened in Berlin, which went broke in 2002)
Poor people are called poor for a reason and not "cheap" as it translate in other languages, they are poor in personality, work ethic, education, etc. These people pretty much suck at everything.
Why is she being referred to as a N****** ? She clearly looks white to me and coming from this guy N******s need to stick together both spanish and black.
This is what you call Street Knowledge....Dropping Science Farakkhan 8 percenters prison knowledge bull****.
Let me give it to him from a white man's perspective....
" Dude , you are totally tripping out. Mellow out man. "
Why is she being referred to as a N****** ? She clearly looks white to me and coming from this guy N******s need to stick together both spanish and black.
This is what you call Street Knowledge....Dropping Science Farakkhan 8 percenters prison knowledge bull****.
Let me give it to him from a white man's perspective....
" Dude , you are totally tripping out. Mellow out man. "
It's commmon for people to use the n-word (ending with A) to refer to anyone
In fact, I would argue that most of the transplants coming here for banking internships, clutching parental money, of course, are completely uneducated in anything that matters.
Unchecked real estate profiteering has made New York far less competitive because access to cash for which you yourself did absolutely nothing is currently the biggest determinant.
I resent this because I dislike living or even being around them. I do not find them interesting. I refuse to move back downtown, to the place where I lived most of my life, for that reason.
Transplants are always in for a rude awakening when moving to NYC. Something must be done to save white picket fenced, cookie cutter suburbia so that Trannsplants after college can go back home, have a career and call it a day. Instead of moving to the big city in an inner city neighborhood, driving up the cost of rent, making professional jobs scarce or unattainable for locals.
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Originally Posted by wawaweewa
There are plenty who move here with parental support but also plenty more who don't. Most transplants do not come here with/for great jobs. They come here in search of opportunities and to escape their boring native habitats.
What's the difference between them and those lifelong NY'ers who live in rent controlled/section 8 apartments? If they had to pay 75% of market rate, would they still be able to live in NYC? Aren't they living on someone else's dime as well?
How about NY'ers who inherited houses or apartments from their parents/grandparents? There are PLENTY like that and without that they wouldn't be able to afford NYC either.
I'm not in love with transplants just like any native NY'er but you have to give most of them props. They take a chance and come to NYC in search of opportunities. Can't **** on them for that.
This is also true. Some Transplants come here with out parental support and try to make it on their own. Transplants do not have access to rent control, NYCHA, rent subsidized, or handed down property from parents which makes it easy for some New Yorkers to maintain lively hoods here. My advice for Transplants is to come to NYC with an Masters degree, or a degree from a top college or IVY league. A generic degree will not land you in an hot shot job. Be smart. either live in 5 roomates in an hip neighborhood in a small apartment, or move into the middle class outskrits of Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens which have no organic French Bistro in sight.
Great cities don't shut their doors to certain people because you don't want to be around them. NYC will always have rich people, "transplants", fresh-out-of-college dreamers and the like no matter what. Gentrification even went on during the darkest periods of the 1970s (heck, I would argue NYC's rampant gentrification is a direct result of the city becoming so bad back then. NYC became so cheap that artists and yuppies simply poured in despite the decay. Something similar has happened in Berlin, which went broke in 2002)
The artists were poor, they weren't gentrifiers by and large
There you can observe an utter lack of comprehension whatsoever that professions are valued "on the market" with little to do with actual worth or value of contribution.
The artists were poor, they weren't gentrifiers by and large
Exactly. I was there, this person apparently was not.
Many of them are rich now but would never have been able to come to New York if current conditions had prevailed then.
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