Cost of living in NYC :merchant: Can YOU afford it?

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It'll happen. Bx still a shythole, but they'll start fixing it up and raising rent n shyt
It's a shythole because it's physically set up that way. Show me the guy who can fix up that whole borough to even closely have the effect of other spots and I'll show you a guy with an atom bomb for the Bronx, because that's what it will take.
 

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living in NYC and some parts of California turns you into a hustler. It's a badge of honor to live well in certain cities. I was born and raised in hustling cities. The high cost of living doesn't stop me from getting mine.

THIS!

I equate it to beating a game on the hardest difficulty. It makes it that much more sweeter when you are successful in these cities.
 

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you think the southside is always going to stay that way? it'll get gentrified soon enough and gentrification doesn't have to involve white folks replacing black folks. it could involve the black ppl he's asking to move to chicago. so as with all these cities i'd like to see more black homeownership (and not renting) instead of fleeing to some of these lame places and still end up struggling.
blacks are leaving Chicago and rich / upwardly mobile blacks are certainly not attracted to Chicago
 

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It's a shythole because it's physically set up that way. Show me the guy who can fix up that whole borough to even closely have the effect of other spots and I'll show you a guy with an atom bomb for the Bronx, because that's what it will take.

I know you may disagree, but the South Bronx is slowly but surely getting gentrified. It wouldn't shock me if the North Bronx(last stops on 2/5) become like a fake suburb in 30 years.
 

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I know you may disagree, but the South Bronx is slowly but surely getting gentrified. It wouldn't shock me if the North Bronx(last stops on 2/5) become like a fake suburb in 30 years.
The north Bronx looks nice but it's dirty as shyt. All the prostitutes stay up there by the Mt. Vernon border.


The south side is just getting fixes alongside the water and even then, they're not selling those lofts like that and you can't tear those projects down. Too many displaced blue votes.
 

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black ppl leaving New York too

But black immigration and good jobs allows the black population in NYC to continue to rise

Black population in new York is going down but not at the rate as Chicago, L.A., and like every city in the midwest
 

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If i made 75k, in NY, i'd still be good. Get an apartment at market in brokklyn for 1800. Food? Aldi and postmates. Entertainment? Netflix and chill or live free events at the park. Subway? Breeze card or whatever. Need to get around? Id buy a bike or scooter. Even with all that and more....i'd still be saving hella money. You nikkas just don't know shyt about money management.....a person making 8 bucks an hour could save 500 a month if their expenses were low enough.
 

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The north Bronx looks nice but it's dirty as shyt. All the prostitutes stay up there by the Mt. Vernon border.


The south side is just getting fixes alongside the water and even then, they're not selling those lofts like that and you can't tear those projects down. Too many displaced blue votes.

Not to mention, the North Bronx is far as fukk by subway from Lower Manhattan, that alone deters most gentry types from wanting to live there.

Even the South Bronx doesn't have many visible signs of gentrification yet.
 

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Not to mention, the North Bronx is far as fukk by subway from Lower Manhattan, that alone deters most gentry types from wanting to live there.

Even the South Bronx doesn't have many visible signs of gentrification yet.

It's gonna happen, you got the 4, 5, 2, B, and D lines all stretching over North(at least outside Co-op city). Not to mention Metro North.
 
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