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Rell826 said:
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NYC is somewhere you visit not live.


It was fun when I was 20 but at 30 ill take a 2000 square foot brand new home outside of Plano, Texas.


The NYC struggle life for people over 25 just doesn't make sense to me.
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NYC isn't for everyone. You're one of them. That's why the saying is, "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." It rings true every time and especially for the yuppies moving to the city and leaving within a year.

I don't know what people's idea of comfort is, but you can live comfortable in NYC if you don't have kids or if you do, you have a two income household. Everyone over 25 isn't struggling. Young dudes living at home with their parents/roommates are stacking their chips so that when they are ready to fly, they won't any problems.

A lot of posts on here that are anti-NYC are those from people that have purely visited the city or if their only impression of the city is what they read on the Internet.


Actually bush wick is getting better from when I used to live there now white college kids are moving in to travel to college in Brooklyn and manhattan
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I haven't been there in a while. My experiences come from when I used to go to middle school (383) there. Was a terrible neighborhood plagued with crime and poverty. I'm sure things have changed, but there are definitely pockets of the old Bushwick.
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There is no value proposition you can present to me that can justify what it costs to live in New York vs Houston or Dallas as a regular person trying to raise a family.

I would have to make 120k a year in NYC just to maintain my current standard of living and more than likely not own any appreciating assets.

Like I said as a single dude NYC is cool but when it's raise a family time. I'm good.

There is a reason Texas has the 3 fastest growing cities in America and 4 of the top 10.
 
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I want to know what people like

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Think of the heights.... And all the other places?

Why? Cuz it's always the same dudes arguing

Maybe even Mayor of NYC can chime in and let us know....

Ya know some well known members that are not from the heights
 
Real talk though, I've lived in NYC my whole life, but I can't justify raising a family in a cramped apartment. I can't deprive my child from an ideal life. My immigrant parents did that, but we're off that at this point.
 
If you need 120k to maintain your lifestyle, there's something wrong with you, not the city.

People with the dramatics on here. You've visited, you don't live here. That's a big difference in itself. Everything you've said about living in New York City has been based off of opinion, not fact. You proved that yourself with the hyperbole used to get by on a yearly basis.
 
AceMaster193 said:
Real talk though, I've lived in NYC my whole life, but I can't justify raising a family in a cramped apartment. I can't deprive my child from an ideal life. My immigrant parents did that, but we're off that at this point.
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my childhood in da heightz >>* (after da wild cowboys era simmered down)
 
People just don't get it ... maybe I should have clarified I'm African-American. I think people overlooking this factor when reading my posts.

As an African-American who has lived in small cities or townships outside city limits it's hard for people like me to interact with non-blacks because there's so much we have balance mentally to just EXIST peacefully in that community.

Niketalk is diverse in age range, so I'm pretty sure there's blacks that can testify to what I'm saying.

Maybe because SOME NT'ers may have never left the nest or come from wealthy backgrounds they cannot understand what it's like from a black perspective of the spectrum.

We constantly have to worry about, the awkwardness of post-racial society and the VAST varieties of characters who we encounter each day, being labeled the "angry negro" or even worse the "Sambo". 

As an African-American you're pretty much conditioned to handle these situations and they become second nature to manuveur through effortlessly. But there are times where you encounter people that just don't let up. (Law Enforcement, Good Ol' Boys, Boss, Teacher, Landlord).


When a place isn't culturally diverse and whites are the majority, "whiteness" dominates the socio-economic current. Therefore you're characterized as the EPITOME of EVERYTHING an individual white at that moment needs you to be.


I swear you're the "I luv me sum whyte whimenz" black guy, if you hold your head up high and rise about and limit your emotional responses in reaction to ignorance you're the "wannabe white" black guy. If you just cool and have a lot of white friends you're the "token" black guy. If you keep your swag you're thrown in that Fresh Prince box. Sure it's cool when you're 13-22 ...but if that's all you're valued for then what happens when these people graduate college and have to earn RESPONSIBLE jobs? Affirmative Action can't save you because YOU put yourself in that position by trying to be "Mr Cool" and being the spokesperson for current black pop culture.


Whites, Asians, Jewish, and SOME Hispanics are able to conform, assimilate or integrate into "whiteness" and retain their cultural identity and essence.
If you ever took a Comm course you know this is FACT. If not you've probably seen some degree of this on Chappelle show (i.e "Keeping it real goes wrong")


Now, most of these type of suburbs have a small black community on the outskirts of these townships...and it's ALWAYS the drug zone, racial profiling, and disenfrancised part of town. And no matter your background if you move to the "white part" you're ALWAYS subjected to an arbitrary probation period, no matter how nice you're dressed, how much money you make, PRETTY your BLACK WIFE or GIRLFRIEND...you will always want their women, be up to something, or if you're squeaky clean they will get angry and TRY to BREAK YOU DOWN until they have a reason to point the finger.

Who wants to live like that? Who wants to live in the ghetto? Sure most us blacks come from there, but after the music videos, and pop culture references we have SLEEP THERE..there's no PAUSE BUTTON...no STOP BUTTON....we have to LIVE there and sometimes IN TERROR.


So for most middle-class blacks, or students our only option is the big city, where there's a constant influx of cultures and respect of for ours.
Also why most of us just don't work and study there but LIVE there too...it puts our minds as ease to not have to worry about race so much.


...with that being said, when you chillin' in school or work and some Dominican with a BLACK HIP-HOP vernacular he can turn on or off at his PARENT'S dinner table says "come to Da Heightz b". He's not taking into accountability what I've already stated that the neighborhood is 75% Hispanics who are IMMIGRANTS and found a "cozy" nook to call "home". And when you're dealing with a group of people that come to America for a better life and ALREADY have a complex like AMERICA asked them to discard their cultural identity...let's just says there's a lot of "pride" in the air and sometimes all it takes is for one Dominican with an inferiority complex to pull the race card in an argument and you'll have a whole block that will side with them...even if they are wrong.


Ask Ninjahood or anyone objecting what I say to talk that craziness in the middle of Crown Heights, Jamaica, the Pink Houses...BET YOU THEY'D GET REAL HUMBLE...REAL QUICK. 


...but he wanna pop slick cause he "feels safe" up in Da Heightz which is my point, they flex hard up there and front cause they know they can.
That's just how New York is ...word to Bronx Tale.

But as I stated to avoid ALL OF THIS ...Suburbs and one culturally dominated neighborhood ....Some blacks PREFER the epicenter of a major city where common "best behavior" work practices are implemented in that general area.
 
 
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in for the shots that are about to fly. i have no idea whats going on tho.
 
ninjahood said:
AceMaster193 said:
Real talk though, I've lived in NYC my whole life, but I can't justify raising a family in a cramped apartment. I can't deprive my child from an ideal life. My immigrant parents did that, but we're off that at this point.
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my childhood in da heightz >>* (after da wild cowboys era simmered down)
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Real talk, you really have to stop glorifying the heights

No one that's born in NYC is dreaming of moving to the heights. Maybe some out of towner would but the heights is nothing special. Anything over 96th St isn't worth moving to 
 
FrankLucas said:
Real talk, you really have to stop glorifying the heights

No one that's born in NYC is dreaming of moving to the heights. Maybe some out of towner would but the heights is nothing special. Anything over 96th St isn't worth moving to 
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:rofl:
 
there's a bunch of yuppy idiots moving into the city paying ******ed amounts of cash for rooms that should've been gutted in the 80s...

I've been to many nice apts..

My apt is 1000 a month in Brooklyn.. I live on the good side of town ... No loudness, no rats. no police harassment... i grew up in Crown Heights. my apt was decent nothing extraordinary. I've seen crack apts, luxury apts, and in between apts. and sometimes there all the same price depending on location..

NYC is a hustle, people fall for the dumb **** like paying 2000 a month for a shack with a bath
 
PREMIUM3G said:
there's a bunch of yuppy idiots moving into the city paying ******ed amounts of cash for rooms that should've been gutted in the 80s...

I've been to many nice apts..

My apt is 1000 a month in Brooklyn.. I live on the good side of town ... No loudness, no rats. no police harassment... i grew up in Crown Heights. my apt was decent nothing extraordinary. I've seen crack apts, luxury apts, and in between apts. and sometimes there all the same price depending on location..

NYC is a hustle, people fall for the dumb **** like paying 2000 a month for a shack with a bath
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Pretty much.
 
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