Is NYC /fa/?

[Anonymous No.15448003]

Discuss.

[Anonymous No.15448050]

When it comes to

-overprized mediocre international cuisine, no
-crappy infrastructure, no
-a totally messed up airport, no
-stinky, trashy sideroads, no
-crackniggs, wanting to sell you "the best coko of the city" in front of the Broadway McD, when youve just arrived from the Turks and Caicos Islands, hell noooooo

-witnessing three ppl in 3 minutes, two armed guards and one of the chefs using the males restroom in the T-Towers basement, while i was having a piss after the consume of 4-5 pints of german superior tapped beer, all of them three having a 20sec piss and afterwards a 2 minute sniff sniff break in the shitter department with the nice chef asking me gently if i wanna do some of NYs best coko as well, topkek fa
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-grumpy people people, showing the finger yelling asshole at any time at other persons for minor reasons, yes
-a superb range of cultural offers like museums of all sort, events and so on, yes
-a wide range of fancy locations, yes
-the fact, that one gets the only correctly 5min tapped german beer in radius of a thousands miles in the Trump Tower at the bar, yes
-witnessing three ppl in 3 minutes, two armed guards and one of the chefs using the males restroom in the T-Towers basement, while i was having a piss after the consume of 4-5 pints of german superior tapped beer, all of them three having a 20sec piss and afterwards a 2 minute sniff sniff break in the shitter department with the nice chef asking me gently if i wanna do some of NYs best coko as well, topkek fa
-the 58% ratio of women/man, leading to banging the smokey hotel frontdesk milf, one of the the t-towers lefty bartender-girls, that showed me some trashy metal bars and getting hooked up with an utterly rich 5th ave pussy craving for cock, all that in two days, hell yes what a city.
-one dollar pizza slices, yes

[Anonymous No.15448075]

>>15448050
Sounds like heaven on earth to me. I enjoyed Manhattan when I was there and the Grimaldi's pizza in Brooklyn was god tier

[Anonymous No.15448082]

Anyone here live in NYC? How was it like?

[Anonymous No.15448090]

>>15448003
its heavily romanticized by suburban kids with big shiny dreams. if my place/neighborhood wasnt cheap I would have left a few years ago 2bh.

[Anonymous No.15448105]

>>15448090
Same. All the people that dream about NYC are people who have never lived there.
Personally, I'm trying to get to Boston

[Anonymous No.15448106]

>>15448003
imo new york died around 2010 maybe

[Anonymous No.15448173]

Still one of most effay places in the world, but awful to live in

[Anonymous No.15448334]

>>15448003
just live in philadelphia instead, its the better brooklyn

[Anonymous No.15448360]

I live in NYC, lots of posers and just fucking lames, but also lots of inspiration and incredible people everywhere

[Anonymous No.15448362]

>>15448090
same with los angeles

[Anonymous No.15448367]

>>15448082
i live near nyc. Hang out in soho a lot. There is cool people around if you know where to look. There are locals who are not kool aid into the whole nyc thing and then there is transplants. These transplants are either barely making it poor or rich af where they own g wagons in the city. The people I know are pretty interesting as the city will always attract people from all corners of the world

[Anonymous No.15448384]

>>15448090
I romanticized NYC because of the culture it once had (Velvet Underground, Television , No Wave, Classic films from that era). Then you realize that died decades ago and that its basically a giant dirty shopping mall for rich cunts and that its culture since the 2000s has been defined by the children of rich cunts who like the idea of being an artist more than actually being one, so you get cheap comodified imitations of the old culture that get pushed because of daddies money and connections ala The Strokes and Frances Has and Whatever is in the New Yorker.

[Anonymous No.15448487]

>>15448082
i live in LES it's love/hate, lots of things you can't get anywhere else but also lots of bullshit you don't have to put up with anywhere else...the really hard thing about leaving here to go elsewhere is that there are no comparable cities in the US that allow you a similar lifestyle in terms of not having to own a car or having a "neighborhood" vibe

>>15448090
partially this but also everytime i leave i feel good when i get back...the longer you stay here you romanticize places that aren't NYC...but then you get there and realize that most of america is also a depressing hell hole

>>15448105
...Boston? hahaha i mean...great city but the least /fa/ place on earth, super fun if you're 18-22 though...but you will literally be called a faggot on the street and people will try to fight you if you dress remotely /fa/

>>15448106
people in 2010 said this about 2000, people in 2000 said this about 1990...new york dies and lives every decade for different ppl

>>15448173
increasingly, this is true

>>15448334
philly/brooklyn is great if you're a faux-poverty tryhard crusty from the midwest, never understood the appeal

>>15448360
yes

>>15448384
subculture does not exist anywhere anymore, not just NYC....maybe the last remaining one is the gay/trans subculture but this is increasingly mainstream if that's the type of thing you're into (tho the reality of this culture is far more disgusting than the normie fantasy of it)

[Anonymous No.15448592]

>>15448082
I live in Brooklyn and like >>15448487
it's a love/hate thing. I'm lucky enough to have zero debt, otherwise I'd be stuck working a bartending job just to keep up with my bills every month. Granted, you can make more money as a bartender in NYC than you can as a teacher, generally.

>>15448487
>i live in LES it's love/hate, lots of things you can't get anywhere else but also lots of bullshit you don't have to put up with anywhere else...the really hard thing about leaving here to go elsewhere is that there are no comparable cities in the US that allow you a similar lifestyle in terms of not having to own a car or having a "neighborhood" vibe

>the longer you stay here you romanticize places that aren't NYC...but then you get there and realize that most of america is also a depressing hell hole

These things are both true, but the longer I stay in NYC the more I realize that the circle of people I see daily remains the same size whether I'm in New York or anywhere else. You meet a lot of interesting people passing through New York, though, which really does feel like it opens the rest of the world up to you if you manage to construct proper friendships.

[Anonymous No.15449047]

>>15448367
Damn

[Anonymous No.15449088]

>>15448384
NYC is fun if you wanna get laid with hot chicks. Who cares about culture

[arachni No.15449671]

>>15448003
Considering the fact that people lie about being from here and are amazed by it for some reason, I guess it is. At the same time, living in Far Rock, you get scared that your whole neighborhood will change in a way that caters to people outside your neighborhood moreso than inside. Everything develops and moves rapidly, which appeals to some, but creates this uncertainty living here to the point where you don’t know how shit will be like in 5 years. Long Island City and most of Brooklyn are the biggest gentrification hotspots here and I genuinely don’t know how people are so attracted to these areas outside of how close they are to Manhattan.
There’s a good amount of people who dress really nice here, but also really bad here. There’s just so much people here that you can see effay people daily if you go outside a lot.
With as much people that are here and how big the city is, things are really diverse. Nobody knows the entire city. Even if you’re a /pol/tard, Staten Island, Howard Beach, and Gerritsen Beach exist. It kind of has a neighborhood to cater to all types of people (except /k/ and /out/ people) and that diversity is pretty cool too.
I’d say overall it’s pretty effay but the gentrification and rapid pace of change here is a pretty good deterrent for a lot of people.

[Anonymous No.15449681]

>>15449671
The fact that you can never own anything in NYC is tough too. If you wanted to have a place of your own or a business here, get ready to pay millions upon millions for a shit hole, or lose most of your income on rent. It’s really hard to build anything of your own here from the ground up, but it’s also that difficulty that gives the DIY scenes in New York their romance, if you’re into that kind of thing.

[arachni No.15449723]

>>15449681
I wouldn’t even say that. There’s a good amount of cheaper neighborhoods. Jamaica, the South Bronx, Rosedale, Far Rock, etc are cheaper to live in than Long Island if you’re black. For white neighborhoods, there’s Broad Channel, the whole borough of Staten Island, Red Hook, Woodlawn, etc.

[arachni No.15449730]

>>15449681
I wouldn’t even say that. There’s a good amount of cheaper neighborhoods, at least for now. Jamaica, the South Bronx, Rosedale, Far Rock, etc are cheaper to live in than Long Island if you’re black. For white neighborhoods, there’s Broad Channel, the whole borough of Staten Island, Woodlawn, etc.

[Anonymous No.15449826]

>>15448075
>Grimaldi's
Only tourists go there

[Anonymous No.15449827]

smells like trash, not much green and full of nonwhite people so no

[Anonymous No.15449838]

nyc is dope when you know the right places to go to. otherwise it's tourist bait trash

[Anonymous No.15450001]

>>15448367
/westchester/ ?
>>15448384
>>15448487
Sounds like you guys are creatively bankrupt, rather than nyc
>>15449827
NYC actually has a very nice amount of nature that blends with everything else. You should try exploring somewhere other than time square next time you visit

[Anonymous No.15450522]

>>15448003
no, everything is ugly as fuck
there used to be good looking parts but now are covered with ugly billboards

[Anonymous No.15450699]

Who /south Brooklyn/ here?

[Anonymous No.15450940]

>>15448003
No, it is not even as effay as LA and that’s only because LA at least has decent weather. What’s effay about living with 3 other 30 somethings just to be able to afford to eat? Either you’re Patrick Bateman or the nigger bum he kills if you live in NY

[Anonymous No.15451717]

>>15450940
thats exactly why its /fa/

[Anonymous No.15451759]

Honestly, Nyc is a shithole. I lived there for 6 years. Detroit, LA, and Portland do Brooklyn better than Brooklyn.

[Anonymous No.15451780]

>>15451759
Spoken like someone who's never been to detroit

[Anonymous No.15451789]

Live there.

Toronto and London are both better cities

[Anonymous No.15451898]

>>15451780
redpill me on Detroit please

[Anonymous No.15451940]

>>15451898

[Anonymous No.15451966]

>>15451940
Are there still tranny hookers in Highland Park?

[Anonymous No.15451978]

>>15451898
while >>15451940 is vague, it's still decently accurate. A little bit too forgiving on the bloomfield area
t. rochester hills -> NY

[Anonymous No.15452368]

>>15448003
(relative to other places in the united states)Yes. But its not a place you would want to live in 24/7. It's expensive and unsanitary. Unless your super rich its pays to live in Westchester County.

[Anonymous No.15452488]

>>15451898
Detroit is actually a tough place to live, too, but for different reasons than nyc. America is just a third world country and living in these places helps you to realize that. There really isn’t anyone with good taste in Bloomfield hills. Sorry but I’m cynical. I’d still rather live in the city and deal with hood shit than anywhere in the suburbs tho

[Anonymous No.15452512]

>>15448003
i climbed that bridge on july 4th

[Anonymous No.15452520]

>>15449088
based

[Anonymous No.15452555]

Are there any /fa/ U.S. cities anymore? I'm guessing only shit in Cali.

[Anonymous No.15452630]

>>15452488
Bloomfield and nearby areas have lovely MCM houses. also you sound like a fag who grew up in metro detroit but tells people you're from the 313

[Anonymous No.15452635]

i moved to seattle over nyc back in may, sometimes wonder if I made a mistake but I lived 3 hours away from nyc for 10 years and visited plenty of times and didn't understand the appeal of living there. i want to do outdoor shit like mtbing and camp/hike but you have to travel way too far for nature in nyc

[Anonymous No.15452643]

>>15452635
is this a joke? rockefeller state park (and like 100 others along the Hudson) is 30 miles away from NYC. you can literally hop on the metro north to get there

[Anonymous No.15452651]

>>15451940
i have no idea what brown truckers means but somehow it applies to my area

[Anonymous No.15452682]

>>15452643
Seattle has way more outdoor options close by. there's hundreds of bike trails just within 30min, like 10 mountains close by for snowboarding/skiing, shit ton of hiking trails and campsites way more options that NYC. nyc can't compete with it as far as nature goes.

[Anonymous No.15452725]

>>15448050
> NYC as a tourist : effay
> Living in NYC : not effay

[Anonymous No.15454441]

>>15452725
autism

[Anonymous No.15454459]

>>15450001
Not westchester but i know a few people there.

>>15452635
bro... go north and so much outdoor activities. In order to enjoy nyc you need to know the spots and the people. Without knowing locals in manhattan it's pointless.

One more time. NYC is only worth it if your socializing skills is amazing enough to make the connections and people interested in getting to know you.

[Anonymous No.15454656]

>>15454459
>bro... go north and so much outdoor activities.
dude I lived in upstate NY for 10+years, I've been north my whole life lol

[Anonymous No.15454719]

>/fa/
>North America

no

[Anonymous No.15455727]

does nyc have more diy/underground/experimental music/art stuff than london? i'm from london and i feel that we're kinda lacking on the music front, i always hear about nyc having these really good scenes but is that still the case?
also how does nyc compare to philly for that kind of stuff

[Anonymous No.15455778]

>>15448003
LONDON

[Anonymous No.15455876]

I work in upper east side and it’s pretty based, but I wouldn’t move there any time soon because the Manhattan experience sucks right now due to gay virus

[Anonymous No.15455911]

>>15448003
Manhattan and Brooklyn maybe. Everywhere else is trash, but Staten Island is the absolute bottom of the totem pole. Absolute guttural human trash lives there, particularly the no-collar Italians who live with their moms but still act like gangstas from the hood. Meanwhile if you actually bring them to the hood they’ll shit themselves. Wiggers are the least /fa/ thing ever folks

[Anonymous No.15455949]

>>15454459
comparing “outdoor activities” in NY to seattle is retarded, seattle wins by a mile but seattle is a really boring city with just as many homeless junkies as manahattan.

>>15455727
yes sort of but its really bad. like i said before subculture/underground has ceased to exist but the en vogue shit these days is the gay/trans/whatever scene, but they make really bad art and really bad music. philly is just brooklyn for people with less money

>>15455911
brooklyn is by far the fakest and worst borough right now. staten island is trash but they don’t make it a secret. brooklyn is full of tryhard cornballs from wisconsin and ohio, it’s quite possibly the most annoying place on earth

[Anonymous No.15455996]

>>15450699
sheepshead bay is the most openly racist neighborhood i've ever worked in

[Anonymous No.15456346]

>>15448050
So clearly a pleb tourist because you mention spending so much time in midtown, the least /fa/ place in the world. Kys yuropoor.

[Anonymous No.15456352]

>60 posts in
>no original pic of 2019 nyc /fa/ neetup
guys wtf

[Anonymous No.15456380]

>>15450001
>Westchester

I'm from Scarsdale.

[Anonymous No.15456481]

>>15456380
nice! drop by tarrytown and we can thrift together (even though its been pretty slim pickings this summer)

[Anonymous No.15456553]

>>15456481
What shops do you hit? It's been a while since I've attempted to thrift in Westchester. I've been spending a lot of time upstate recently (since COVID)

[Anonymous No.15456555]

>>15448082
Live in the Bronx. Personally love it. Beautiful women, great food and loud music

[Anonymous No.15456567]

>>15448003
i used to live there, moved to long island.
let me be clear
NYC IS A SHITHOLE.
the stink
the homelessness
the new rise in gun violence(9 ppl yesterday alone).
expensive
shit tier mass transit
shit tier cabbies (half the time you feel like youre in a mosque)
overpriced food
broadway faggots'
gays everywhere
literal no go zones in brooklyn and bronx
the dumbest fucking politicians on the planet.
school system is below rural india.
Queens is a third world shithole
brooklyn overall is the set of Judgement night, just gayer and filled with commie revolutionaries.
NYC's only saving grace is the mets ball park. its the only nice ting in the 5 boroughs.

[Anonymous No.15456636]

>>15448075
that's what the pussies in manhattan say
>>15450001
>You should try exploring somewhere other than time square next time you visit
may i suggest queens and staten island

[Anonymous No.15456649]

>>15448487
yup, all this. i just moved back to the bay after living on east broadway for the last ten years. moved there on my own when i was 16, spent the last of it in fucking bushwick puke. parts of NYC suck ass, and youll find that those places are increasingly full of transplants. parts of manhattan and brooklyn have a strange, fucked up culture because of the conflicting relationship between locals, bridge & tunnelers, and people who come in from other parts of the US and use it all up just to go home within 2-3 years, if that.

NYC rules, but it's NYC - its a huge part of the cultural zeitgeist. most people don't really have a clue what theyre getting themselves into because it's a fantasy to them. i miss it, but at the same time i dont at all.

>>15455727
nyc has a good underground, but you really have to know people in the scene. same with jersey.

[Anonymous No.15456650]

>>15456567
Ugh. You deserve long island

[Anonymous No.15456651]

>>15456567
also, people in manhattan who don't clean up after their dogs

[Anonymous No.15456658]

>>15456650
see my reply to >>15448075 in >>15456636

[Anonymous No.15456676]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj2WKny3eZE

[Anonymous No.15456994]

>>15456553
mostly just run the loop on the goodwills and sal vals. a lot of the local joints are operating at funky hours, which conflicts with the work schedule. the goodwills have been really slow with bringing out new stuff to the floor, which is odd with everyone donating so much.

[Anonymous No.15457121]

>>15456567
literally all of this is true tho the gun violence is confined mostly to the same 4 or 5 hoods for the past decade and thus doesn't really matter to anyone...it is what it is, a place to have fun and make money until you cant stomach the bullshit and then you leave. Natives cry about this mentality but they only have themselves to blame, most are horribly incapable of surviving anywhere else despite all of the tough talk and many spend generations in poverty despite the fact that there is limitless opportunity at their doorstep that most people would kill for. You couldn’t pay me to live on long island, the traffic alone is insane, north shore is nice as fuck though.

[Anonymous No.15457138]

>>15456994
Any good finds lately?

[Anonymous No.15457214]

>>15457138
menswear, specifically dress shirts and suits has been good, but that's it. I havent seen new shoes, belts, or jeans put out in weeks. Luckily the resale scene here is non existant, ive left ~6 suit coats from high end brands on the racks, since im waiting for the pants to show up, and no ones touched them

[Anonymous No.15457302]

>>15457214
Nice, I'll have to stop in sometime. I usually only shop in the city.

[Anonymous No.15457545]

>>15455949
>seattle is a really boring city
I'm just starting to realize this, I walked around pike place and cap hill a bit today I know we are in the middle of a pandemic but damn this place is dead.

[Anonymous No.15457550]

>>15448487
Based

[Anonymous No.15459021]

>>15456649
redpill me on bushwick please i might have to move there

[Anonymous No.15459031]

>>15459021
it's an ok neighborhood just happens to be the latest place to be selected by hordes of liberal arts college graduates to colonize. imo there's nicer, cheaper neighborhoods that are closer to manhattan where the local residents will likely be kinder to you. if you speak spanish living in bushwick would be super fun, however.

but you can live in astoria, east harlem, washington heights, kensington/ditmas park, sunnyside queens, and many other less trendy neighborhoods all for less money than bushwick.

however if you really prioritize diy venues and living along the cool kid L train corridor bushwick isn't a bad option.

[Anonymous No.15459269]

>>15455996
The amount of racism in a neighborhood correlates with the number of Russians in that neighborhood.

[Anonymous No.15459287]

>>15459031
>>15459021

I love Bushwick even though or maybe especially because it’s an industrial trash heap of a neighborhood. It’s definitely Williamsburg 2.0 though. There’s an odd mix of hip and expensive cafes and restaurants right alongside roads packed with loud industrial vehicles spewing exhaust as they go by. If you go from Bushwick to Crown Heights or Prospect Park, there’s a noticeable difference in air quality. Bushwick also gets stupid hot in the summer since lots of it is devoid of trees.

The DIY scene there was popping years ago, but since it’s Williamsburging rapidly (and has been for a while: such is the fate of NYC neighborhoods) a lot of the DIY scenester types have moved to Bed-Stuy or Ridgewood. Most of that scene seems to be operating out of Ridgewood now.

All that said, lots of bars in Bushwick are still my favorite places to be, and all the Bushwick natives and old time residents are chill as fuck. Lots of super nice mom-and-pop types running little bodegas and so forth.

[Anonymous No.15459370]

>>15459287
>Williamsburging
Wherever you move to, please work to stop this.
Drink pissy bodega coffee, support your local chinese food joint, get your groceries at key food/c town/pioneer, etc

[Anonymous No.15459395]

>>15459031
basically this. i'd say move further down the l if you dont mind a bit more of a commute and you want something lowkey/less expensive. everything in the scene is moving in that direction, or out to jersey, anyways.

[Anonymous No.15459681]

>>15448082
This guy has only seen NYC in movies and television.

[Anonymous No.15459707]

>>15459287
Pretty accurate, bushwick was the place for cheap rent and cool parties in like 2013, now it is more expensive than parts of lower manhattan for the pleasure of living in a giant industrial park surrounded by puerto ricans. i always recommend astoria to normal people but im guessing since you’re on here you are probably kinda faggy so ridgewood it is

[Anonymous No.15459710]

>>15459370
lol corny transplant thinks he’s “one of the good ones” fucking cancerous

[Anonymous No.15459739]

I used to live in Jackson Heights and every now and then I went to Brooklyn to try to bone White hipster chicks.

Didn't work that often but it honestly got too expensive for me. I moved out to Elizabeth, NJ and it's definitely not the same. I miss the city but fuck paying $800 for tiny ass room.

[Anonymous No.15459740]

i hate it here

[Anonymous No.15460997]

>>15459269
FACTS except idk about brighton beach. i think the fob russians there are quieter about it. or their english isn't good enough.

the sheepshead bay russians and israelis hate black people for sure, but the most openly racist comments were made about the uzbeks who arrived recently in south brooklyn. jokes about blowing shit up and terrorism mostly.

i don't understand how anyone can hate uzbek people tho that food blows any shriveled up st petersburg babushka restaurant out of the water.

[Anonymous No.15461002]

>>15459707
Yeah I'm always surprised by how cheap Astoria still is. Trust fund kids really drive up rent huh.

>>15459710
Honestly, I don't completely disagree with this but what is the alternative? People are going to move to New York do you want them to hide inside all day? Isn't it better to patronize small businesses and spend more money among the community you're colonizing?

[Anonymous No.15461111]

Where tf is ConEd, my power has been out since 1 pm yesterday

[Anonymous No.15461113]

>>15461002
it really is bizarre because astoria is a really great area, but it just goes to show how much perception changes things. i would consider bed-stuy a shithole in comparison on every level but these days it is more expensive just because it's on the L

>Honestly, I don't completely disagree with this but what is the alternative? People are going to move to New York do you want them to hide inside all day? Isn't it better to patronize small businesses and spend more money among the community you're colonizing?

the alternative is just not being a fucking weirdo about this shit - if you want to grab a coffee at a bodega or you want to grab a $5 latte at some new cafe, do you. the whole "colonizer" white faggot mentality is insane, especially when (i'm guessing) you're probably just some kid in his 20s with zero assets and mounds of student loan debt...wow watch out, the rich kid is moving in to takeover! not to mention, who do you think you pay your rent to in these hoods? who owns the building or who sold it to the person who owns it now? people from "the community" didn't give a shit about "saving the neighborhood" when they were cashing out, it's a completely bizarre and one-sided mentality. by all means support small business but don't make it about "muh colonizing a neighborhood" do it because you want to support people you respect

[Anonymous No.15461278]

>>15448050
have you entered queens?

[Anonymous No.15461344]

>>15459707
I’m definitely on the kinda faggy side of things but I love Astoria too. Queens fucking rules, but I’m not leaving my spot in Bushwick anytime soon. I lucked out with a better rent than most and I can still bike to wherever I’m working. I wanted to live in Redhook years back but my spot fell through and I wound up here since I had a friend looking for a roommate blah blah blah. I’m in the ass of Bushwick now anyway so it’s not quite the same as the McKibbin Lofts area.
>>15459370
Lol I like my bodega just fine. But a place doesn’t have to be shitty to be run by locals though. Also, Bushwick was a German neighborhood before it was a Puerto Rican neighborhood, and I don’t think anything short of housing policy change is gonna stop tech-bro elite from making all of NYC like Williamsburg if they want to. Lots of these bodega guys can’t wait until their area becomes like Williamsburg anyway, since they stand to make a lot more money.
>>15461113
>the alternative is just not being a fucking weirdo about this shit - if you want to grab a coffee at a bodega or you want to grab a $5 latte at some new cafe, do you.
This ^ Seriously. The whining about gentrification thing is meaningless. Even if you’re a lefty or left leaning person, these complaints just come off as some limp-wristed white-savior bitching and moaning. It’s not gonna be one lone 20 something who doesn’t own anything who solves this issue.

[Anonymous No.15461497]

>>15461344
It’s funny how you end up getting stuck here because of shit like that. I wound up getting in on a rent-stabilized 1BR in LES 3 years ago and it makes it impossible to move because I know how lucky I am. I honestly don’t even want to live here anymore, but there are no moves that make any sense.

[Anonymous No.15461830]

>>15456567
To be fair, I moved to Long Island and Long Island sucks ass too.

[Anonymous No.15461884]

im a broke just-turned-twenty zoomer from virginia that's romanticized NYC and wanted to live there my entire life, is there any real reason not to? just reading through the thread none of it really bothers me

[Anonymous No.15461925]

>>15461884
nah if you’re 20 it’s fun as fuck living here, go for it. none of this shit we’re talking about ITT will bother you for another 8-10 years live it up while you’re young dumb and full of cum

[Anonymous No.15462203]

>>15461497
You're telling me. All the cities I look at out of New York could cost me more to live in AND require me to own a car. Right now I can live in an apartment that I love, with laundry in unit, bike everywhere I need to or just take the train, and work freelance. It's not a bad gig overall, but it's not what I'd call stable.

>>15461884
>>15461925
>if you're 20 it's fun as fuck living here
This is true. Live it up while you're young. People still "make it" here, so if that's what you're going for, why not give it a shot? And if you're not trying to break through to some industry and just want to experience New York, then just do that. Everyone complains about transplants cus it's hip to do so, but New York's whole history is based on "transplants" anyway, so that is a larger shared identity there which can help you get along with other new people in the city.

[Anonymous No.15462382]

>>15460997
Sounds like Russians coping with their post soviet irrelevance. Stan chads now get to do whatever they want now without that shit Slavic baggage
I agree too, the food is great. First time I tried it was when I was visiting Istanbul. Lots of uzbeck immigrants with good restaurants

[Anonymous No.15462925]

>>15448003
NYC is based even though i complain about it 24/7

[Anonymous No.15463287]

>>15461113
lmao I know. "colonizing" was tongue in cheek. I am a 20-something with zero assets but I also happen to be from a different rapidly gentrifying city. I have never really been bothered by the white guilt thing.

The only part of this I take issue with is implying that paying rent is keeping money in the community. I have Jewish landlords in both the majority black neighborhoods I lived in, and neither were the hassids down the block either. Idk who owned the building in washington heights where i rented a room tho.

that said, i do feel that spending money within the community is a good defense against gentrification but this goes for so-called "locals" as well... it's insane how little money people actually spend in their neighborhoods. money spent in soho/on the internet isn't helping anyone locally.

the only slightly cringe SJW thing i ever did in brownsville was make the decision to walk the extra block to the black owned bodega (sorry mohammed)

[Anonymous No.15463289]

>>15461497
>I honestly don’t even want to live here anymore, but there are no moves that make any sense.

can i sublet your place then

[Anonymous No.15464161]

Bump

[Anonymous No.15464187]

>>15448003
a friend of mine named binny lives in new york

[Anonymous No.15464195]

>>15463287
it was probably a jewish neighborhood before it was a black neighborhood, the whole "keep the neighborhood xyz" is retarded, east new york used to be italian now its black, LES used to be jewish then it was puertorican then it was what it is now, little italy used to be italian now its chinese....this shit just changes, especially in NYC, to think otherwise is just fantasy

[MYSTERY TRIP ( YOU KNOW WHO I (...) !!9z5mKgjG8BJ No.15464200]

>>15448003

I was born and raised here since the early 1980s.

IMO, 1990s NYC was the pinnacle. It was absolutely top tier. The perfect balance of safety, affordability, culture, and activities (things to do). It was an absolute god tier experience that anyone could enjoy, no matter how much money they had in their pockets, and made better by the fact that mobile phone ownership and Internet usage wasn't widespread yet.

Now? It's only worth living here if you have a lot of money as it's been essentially turned into a playground for the rich. It's worth coming here for schooling or if you're just starting some career in a field this place is known for. But once you get your education and/or work experience under your belt, it's better to move to a cheaper part of the country where you can take your salary with you, save money, and actually become a homeowner, and raise a family.

Check it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

[None !IGORsW/P/E No.15464210]

>>15464200
best era ever

[None !IGORsW/P/E No.15464214]

Internet was a mistake

[Anonymous No.15464646]

>>15464195
I agree with you. I'm just providing an example of how paying rent is not an example of "spending money in the neighborhood" as some sort of act of allyship.

The only thing you can do on an individual level is patronize local restaurants and stores. But that's not atoning for your sins as a white person or whatever, it's just being a good neighbor and it's a good way to participate in the neighborhood which idk feels nice?

I don't totally buy the equivalency between poor jews being replaced by poor carribeans in flatbush, tho. A lot of these kids who are new to bk are straight up wealthy. And the poor ones often don't really participate in the local economy, which is undeniably a problem. If I live on a block with four restaurants and a bodega and walking distance from a grocery store and get all my food delivered from far away, take the train to whole foods, and order everything on the internet I'd be a resource drain on the neighborhood, no?

[Anonymous No.15464661]

>>15464200
makes me think of "halt and catch fire"

[Anonymous No.15464663]

>>15464200

[Anonymous No.15464669]

>>15452555
Porltand is defiantly /fa/

just get blue star doughnuts instead of voodoo

[Anonymous No.15464681]

>>15463289
>>15461497
same, i'll take the couch

[Anonymous No.15464704]

>>15464661
that's 1980s