If you could live in ATL or NYC which one would you choose?

[Billy Ocean]

 

[...o3]

...atl.

so many bad sistas.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

As someone from the East Coast but not NYC, I’m picking neither. I would prefer to live in Philly or DC. DC has almost everything you want in New York except it’s smaller. What it lacks however is the gritty city culture and street scene. DC is basically a sanitized mini Manhattan without the parts of Brooklyn, Harlem, Queens that give NYC its flavor (for example hip hop would’ve never started in DC) but if you a professional type DC is your scene. Philadelphia has the gritty city culture and street scene that NYC has in smaller doses but it lacks the professional scene and networks that DC and NYC have. NYC has every industry either based there or with a heavy footprint there and DC is where you want to be for government jobs, consulting, government contracting, law, tech, etc. Not saying Philly doesn’t have good jobs but it’s more in the other two. Philly is home for me and I went to school in DC so that’s where I’ll always see myself long term.

DC got that gritty street scene but you’ll find it within the homegrown GoGo culture. Hip Hop is still relatively new here, especially since DC has always been more in tune with Jazz, Funk, Punk Rock, Urban Gospel, R&B, and to some extent, even House music.

Like we’ve developed our own flow (which is meh but it’s something I guess), the DMV “sound”, and even got a couple of Hip Hop dances, but we definitely still don’t got much of a Hip Hop culture out here. Funk music, Neo Soul, or even Rock & Roll could’ve easily started out here more so than Hip Hop.

 

[badboys11]

Are you sure about that? NYC has more black people than ATL has people. Straight up 2 million black people live in NYC and ATL only has 523,000 people total.

Whats the percentage? In ATL if i dont want to deal with different groups of people i dont have to. In NYC you will be surrounded by a melting pot, and that includes the racist white folks who aint racist cause they live up north and have a black friend or two. Whats the percentage of black people in ATL compared to NY? NY has more black people number wise than Detroit, but Detroit is black. See the difference?

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

This is a no fukking brainer. Already lived in Atlanta, I'll pass on doing that again. I hate that my mom lives there and I have to go there once a year to visit her lmao...

NY over Atlanta every single time. shyt I lived Upstate and would take Upstate over Atlanta of the fukking winters weren't so damn brutal...



Damn I aint heard this in a minute, this instantly got me on a Nas mood and I put on the original:



Off topic but hearing this when I was younger was the illest shyt to me...

NYC will always be in my dna - the foundation of prolific street poetry

 

[Thanos]

Whats the percentage? In ATL if i dont want to deal with different groups of people i dont have to. In NYC you will be surrounded by a melting pot, and that includes the racist white folks who aint racist cause they live up north and have a black friend or two. Whats the percentage of black people in ATL compared to NY? NY has more black people number wise than Detroit, but Detroit is black. See the difference?

It's +-50% vs 26%.

 

[MoneyTron]

If I had money, New York. For everything else, Atlanta is home.

 

[MoneyTron]

Are you sure about that? NYC has more black people than ATL has people. Straight up 2 million black people live in NYC and ATL only has 523,000 people total.

LOL, no one counts just the actual city of Atlanta. Atlanta is an urban sprawl capital. Metro Atlanta has 7 million people.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

I'd rather live in Russia than Atlanta

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Whats the percentage? In ATL if i dont want to deal with different groups of people i dont have to. In NYC you will be surrounded by a melting pot, and that includes the racist white folks who aint racist cause they live up north and have a black friend or two. Whats the percentage of black people in ATL compared to NY? NY has more black people number wise than Detroit, but Detroit is black. See the difference?

I got you. You're talking about immersion. That's cool

 

[Hoodoo Child]

NYC easily, born and raised here, its home.


Only would want to live in NC if I had to live in the south, love NC. There was a point where I didn't even like NC but the state has grown on me

I'm not surprised, because of alot of ADOS from New York have ancestral roots in Virginia & The Carolinas.
@IllmaticDelta Can you confirm my sources, fam?

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

LOL, no one counts just the actual city of Atlanta. Atlanta is an urban sprawl capital. Metro Atlanta has 7 million people.

That don't even sound fair to compare different cities like that especially since in terms of land mass, the Atlanta metro and it's surrounding suburbs are HUGE! I don't think the people picking ATL over NYC are picking Gwinnett county over Brooklyn.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I'm not surprised, because of alot of ADOS from New York have ancestral roots in Virginia & The Carolinas.
@IllmaticDelta Can you confirm my sources, fam?

As far as ADOS go, it's very true although ADOS in NYC with roots in that alabama/texas/mississippi golf coast area is more common than I once thought

 

[LightSkinYeshua]

Guess you never been to NY huh?!?!?

im from nyc b

 

[daemonova]

That don't even sound fair to compare different cities like that especially since in terms of land mass, the Atlanta metro and it's surrounding suburbs are HUGE! I don't think the people picking ATL over NYC are picking Gwinnett county over Brooklyn.[/QUOTE]












Hard to say which is worse, but at least it ain't Cobb county, literally filled with dusty buildings and dusty yts