4 girls in buckhead owning a 2 bedroom was a thing.
Census Data Finds Atlanta Has Largest Income Inequality in Country
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4 girls in buckhead owning a 2 bedroom was a thing.
murksiderock
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I've been telling nikkas bout Atlanta for years but cats gotta learn on their own. It's Black Hollywood, a lot of smoke and mirrors.....a whole lot of smoke and mirrors...
I spent time in the city and in a few Gwinnett spots, what I'm saying applies to both city and metro. There are way, way more of us down bad there than you'd assume if your frame of reference was only Atlanta PR. It was a culture shock along with many other things (brothers who didn't have the paper I had but "looked" the part with certain possessions; there are alot of white people there but I didn't think of Atlanta as a place with a lot of whites based on its PR; almost all the white chicks there will jump on brothers publicly or privately; on and on)...
I found that Atlanta didn't actually offer an existential experience different from any other major city like DC or San Fran or Boston, with the exception being it is more black, so there are more black cultural qualities overall, and we all know not all of our characteristics are good ones....
Atlanta is "a" black mecca, there is no "the" black mecca. At the same time, Atlanta is a great change of pace if you grew up elsewhere, and will blow your socks off if you come from smaller cities and towns, but if you're used to big cities Atlanta ain't doing anything most big cities already have. It's a "good" place for us just based off volume and the solidarity of a community that massive----->but Atlanta isn't a "great" place for us...
I spent time in the city and in a few Gwinnett spots, what I'm saying applies to both city and metro. There are way, way more of us down bad there than you'd assume if your frame of reference was only Atlanta PR. It was a culture shock along with many other things (brothers who didn't have the paper I had but "looked" the part with certain possessions; there are alot of white people there but I didn't think of Atlanta as a place with a lot of whites based on its PR; almost all the white chicks there will jump on brothers publicly or privately; on and on)...
I found that Atlanta didn't actually offer an existential experience different from any other major city like DC or San Fran or Boston, with the exception being it is more black, so there are more black cultural qualities overall, and we all know not all of our characteristics are good ones....
Atlanta is "a" black mecca, there is no "the" black mecca. At the same time, Atlanta is a great change of pace if you grew up elsewhere, and will blow your socks off if you come from smaller cities and towns, but if you're used to big cities Atlanta ain't doing anything most big cities already have. It's a "good" place for us just based off volume and the solidarity of a community that massive----->but Atlanta isn't a "great" place for us...
bourgeoisie tall freak
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another exception being the cost of living used to trump a lot of cities. not so much anymore
Laidbackman
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Maybe that's why they cater to White people, especially White men.
The thing is when people talk about black Mecca they are not talking about poor black people.
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Gay white men specifically
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In the 90s Atlanta was spoken of highly, like it was a true Black utopia. Remember all the talk about the Black women were so beautiful it made no sense for Black female out of towners to land there because they'd never get a date. All that talk about how great it is probably led to people moving there who didnt have the skills and qualifications to really contribute something. People ran there to eat and created an imbalance. Just my thoughts
Belize King
I got concepts of a plan.
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True. My mailing address says Decatur. I live outside the loop not too far from Flat Shoals/Candler. The things I’ve seen at night. Damn, the things I’ve seen during the day is crazy.
Nobody told me. I bought a 3400 SF house for 250K thinking I’m making a drug deal. Jokes on me. I wouldn’t let my Wife pump gas after 6PM. First 6 months we get there, 8 murders between the gas stations we use and the condos down the way from us.
I’ve seen more pistols in 2 years than I’ve seen in 10 living in South Texas. I stay holding just in case they want to try me.
South Dekalb isn’t nothing to be played with. Regardless, when I see white people I wonder what they doing here. So far, Atlanta has been good to the family. If these interest rates weren’t so high, I’d cop a few more houses.
True. My mailing address says Decatur. I live outside the loop not too far from Flat Shoals/Candler. The things I’ve seen at night. Damn, the things I’ve seen during the day is crazy.
Nobody told me. I bought a 3400 SF house for 250K thinking I’m making a drug deal. Jokes on me. I wouldn’t let my Wife pump gas after 6PM. First 6 months we get there, 8 murders between the gas stations we use and the condos down the way from us.
I’ve seen more pistols in 2 years than I’ve seen in 10 living in South Texas. I stay holding just in case they want to try me.
South Dekalb isn’t nothing to be played with. Regardless, when I see white people I wonder what they doing here. So far, Atlanta has been good to the family. If these interest rates weren’t so high, I’d cop a few more houses.
InGodWeTrust
Tall & Handsome in ATL
King
The black man is always targeted.
Facts.
In capitalism we all lose, but black people will always be on the bottom.
That 0.1% of the black population is overrepresented in certain “black” cities like DC and ATL.
It’s honestly disgusting, one thing I cannot respect is a black capitalist. I can understand their precarious position of relative comfort. But at the end of the day, just because you get to be in a house doesn’t mean that the majority aren’t still in the fields.
I would appreciate honest giving back and community investment to those really struggling instead of the elitist self-hatred paper-bag holier than thou self righteous indignation.
People don’t choose to be poor. The system decides that for them.
I think it’s not as high as it is in the city proper because most of the black people with money live in the suburbs. I have no clue what the actual wealth gap in the suburbs is though, since I’ve never seen any data that takes that into account.
Stone Mountain, Buford, Douglasville, Alpharetta, Marietta, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Dunwoody, Chamblee, Lithonia, etc...Crackers run all them shyts financially
I lived near three of the counties on the list. That Fayette Co stat is wild. Peachtree City wealth has been there since the 60s and exclusively white.FWIW, two of the handful of counties in the country where blacks have higher median income than whites are in metro Atlanta.
Sandy Creek and Tyrone are majority Black and a lot of Black professionals live their but I find it hard that Blacks got more money there than whites who live in homes starting at 4 million.
Clay Co is poor af. Only welfare whites live there. There are professional Blacks living their in certain enclaves. My cousin for example
Stafford got a lot of white trash and that lowers the white race income but most Black folks living in Stafford are using working professionals who can't afford Prince Williams and especially Fairfax.
Again, that’s not what this is about. It’s about the SIZE of the gap and whether it’s as big in the suburbs as it is in the city proper. White people are on top financially pretty much everywhere and you could really add every single metro Atlanta city to that list. There probably aren’t 10 cities in this country that are “run” by black people financially. It still doesn’t change my point. Rich (white) people tend to live in the city, which would lower the gap in and of itself just because the top end of earners is probably lower in the suburbs. Also, poorer black people tend to live in the city as well, which would likely make the low end of earners higher in the suburbs.
With that said, a lot of poorer black people have been getting pushed out of the city into the suburbs over the past decade, so that may also have an impact.
Y’all keep making these statements with nothing to back it up. Where’s the data? It’s like y’all want it to be a certain way for whatever reason. I could be wrong too, but I’m not gonna talk in absolutes like I know without a shadow of a doubt what’s going on.
Nothing new this been discussed for a few years even before covid. Its just gotten worse post covid and the census numbers just brought to the surface what folks been warning about for years.
Also 11 Alive in Atlanta did a report on this a year ago.
Also 11 Alive in Atlanta did a report on this a year ago.