41% Of New York Residents Say They Can No Longer Afford To Live There

[Easy-E]

I feel bad for those New Yorkers. I wish them the best.

This should be every one's response

 

[fscballin]

Guarantee it's the Transplants that come from out of state. See it all the time

Renting out a $1700 apartment cause they too niave to understand where to look, and want to "live it up"

Most of them move without understanding the NYC job market, then end up working 2 full time retail jobs, 16 hr shifts, making $750 a week




Good, hope they leave. And stay out!!!

Minimum wage is $15/hour

2 full time jobs (80 hours/week) would give someone $1200/week net

 

[The M.I.C.]

Doesn't this thread seem to pop up every month????

Probably. Do something about it.

 

[Serious]

IM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
HOW NEGROS ARE SURVIVING OUT THERE.

I KEEP SEEING STRUGGLE STORIES POSTED
COST OF LIVING AND ABOUT GENTRIFICATION.




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do people in chicago only live in the projects? That's literally the same question.

 

[Serious]

This is the most bullshyt ass post I’ve seen on the coli in a long time..

It ain’t the pensions from city and state workers that’s making it expensive to live in nyc..

What’s making the city expensive for those who live there are the fact that wages are stagnet in a city who have the money to give raises to city employees.. NYC is the financial/media/business capital.. of course the city have the money they just refuse to increase wages to match inflation

took 63 post for someone call it, what it is.

 

[CHICAGO]

do people in chicago only live in the projects? That's literally the same question.

ALL THE PROJECTS GOT TORN DOWN.
nikkaS GOT SHIPPED OUT TO THE BURBS
AND MADE IT HOOD.




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[Serious]

nikkas like waiting for shyt to happen to them instead of being proactive. My grandmother and grandfather worked to buy a house over 30 years ago. Now the mortgage is about paid off and she's retired and has a nice nest egg even without selling the house in Brooklyn.

My mom didn't follow in those steps. She's almost 50 and still doesn't even have a driver license much less own a house. She even mentions regretting not buying in Harlem when the city was basically giving away brownstones in the 90s.

nikkas don't want to plan beyond next week much less 30 years from now. Like what direction the economy is heading in, what jobs will be relevant in 5-10 years, which will be irrelevant?

Racist practices put black folks 3 feet down and our own poor planning has puts us down another 3 feet where we are subject to the changes of outside factors.

Chinatown is largely still China Town. Borough Park, Williamsburg and the Jewish sections of Crown heights are still just that. They own their shyt and are less subject to gentrification. Black folks have been renting for too long.

On a flip, the reality is the folks that are still here can't compete for the jobs that come to the city. There are jobs and there is money to be made hence the huge population increase in NYC over the last decade. NY is not a manufacturing blue collar state anymore and hasnt been for awhile. Finance, tech and fields like that are where the money is. Locals will move down south because there is more low skilled work with a low cost of living.

NYC is just ahead of the curve. nikkas in cities like Dallas, Atlanta, etc will be next. Y'all need to focus on acquiring skills that will translate 5-10-20 years from now so you don't end up like those coal miners in WV voting for Trump thinking he's going to bring back coal mines

Good luck breh cats on this site snub higher education.....

 

[3rdWorld]

Wait, so the millions of black new Yorkers been living there forever but none of them bothered to purchase property

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Minimum wage is $15/hour

2 full time jobs (80 hours/week) would give someone $1200/week net

When would said person sleep?

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Wait, so the millions of black new Yorkers been living there forever but none of them bothered to purchase property

Lot of Republicans in this thread smh

 

[Leasy]

These fukkers starting to move down Philly. The rent been inching up the past few years and Philly’s economy is nowhere close to what it needs to be to support all these condo projects and higher rents. I don’t understand these fakkits building skyscrapers with $2000 rent condos only for it to have 40% occupancy.

They been in Philly but like you said it's getting fukking worst. In neighborhoods like Fairmount Francisville construction houses and condos for millions of dollars. One zip code had over 500 house/condos constructions in half a year. Then you have a lot of rich New Yorkers buying and living like Russell Simmons Brothers Jay Z long time account chick who got a bakery on 20th and Green.

 

[UpAndComing]

Minimum wage is $15/hour

2 full time jobs (80 hours/week) would give someone $1200/week net

This is the same thought process Transplants have


- Till they realize there is still a large amount of companies that pay $12/hr.
- And have your hours fluctuate like crazy, bringing your hours down from 8 hrs a day to 4 hrs a day
- Then having one of the jobs slighty change your shift, so it would effect your other job, causing you to call off


NYC is a jungle, and out of towners get it the worst

 

[Wild self]

Good luck breh cats on this site snub higher education.....

There are people with STEM degrees and master degrees suffering. Thats why this issue is such a pressing one.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

I was working in New York and commuting from Philly the last 8 months.

I was looking for apartments and the rent was too damn high so I said fukk that and stayed in Philly.

 

[ISO]

I was working in New York and commuting from Philly the last 8 months
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