Some parts are being heavily gentrified so theres plenty of "good people" to be around.Good people
Petersburg, Virginia
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So if you're moving to Richmond there's a grip of neighborhoods in the central city you'd want to live in. Uptown, Downtown, or the Near Southside. You can live slightly outside the core in adjacent portions of the Northside that are nice...
This is where I lived in Richmond in the mid-2010s, in Jackson Ward/Carver, which is a historically black area that was a literal war zone from the 70s to 00s and is gentrified to a safe area today, and is still 45% black:
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This is actually the block I lived on, Jackson and St. James:
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Those are "downtown" neighborhoods, walkable to anywhere in the middle of the city. Uptown neighborhoods are desirable too but white folks and others have moved in at a much faster rate, but some of my favorite Uptown hoods:
VCU-Monroe Park
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Museum District
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Carytown
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So much activity in Uptown, shyt is popping for real but the further west you go, the more white it gets, so Uptown really comes down to your comfortability with white people but Uptown is still 15% black with higher concentrations on us the closer you are to Downtown and the Northside...
I'm not an advocate for East End Rich like that but
Rockett's Landing
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And parts of Church Hill
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Have more typical suburban style areas while still being in the city. Church Hill is a big neighborhood though and has some hot blocks in spots, buy is mostly good nowadays. Again though they are majority black if that matters to you...
I remember you said this but if you ever get a chance to experience Rich for yourself, do it. It's a unique city and Top 5 of cities in its weight class in the entire United States. It ain't for everyone but pound for pound it's a great place!
Born and raised in the Burg. I wouldn't plan a visit unless it's to see friends or relatives. It's a small, older city that doesn't have too much going on.
Stop past Croaker Spot if you're in the area it has pretty good soul food.
Stop past Croaker Spot if you're in the area it has pretty good soul food.
Petersburg is a predominately Black city.
I went to college in Petersburg. It's a tiny city, but it's gotten pretty bad lately in terms of crime.
There are a few clubs downtown, there's Fort Lee if you are military, and Richmond is close by.
If you're into racing Dinwiddie is just south of Petersburg. Just stay out of Hopewell...the brehs out there are wild as hell!
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Smells like shyt and ass (literally because of the factory) and is a gutter town.
SHocking they had a very good HS basketball team.
@stomachlines from VA?
Breh, you're a legend in these Coli streets & I respect the work you put in around here, but
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murksiderock
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Cleveland is a large city and I still wouldnt say it's a particularly relevant place. I've been there by the way, and thoroughly enjoyed myself, it has charm...
Richmond is a more enthralling and captivating city with a much longer historical record of relevance than Cleveland. Hard sell on Cleveland being more relevant than Rich, let alone the state of Virginia as a whole, which played as much a part of shaping this nation as anywhere you can name...
People in NoVa have southern accents too, Virginia southern. The difference is the entirety of NoVa is pretty much one vast suburb, suburbs across the country tend to have more monotonous accents a la TV anchors, I've found this to be true on my experiences coast to coast...
Baltimore accent is a sub variant of the Chesapeake Bay, better known as "Tidewater" accent. That's the same family of dialects and you can hear it in certain words, and it makes sense because Maryland and Virginia are bound with history spanning not just Euro colonialism but the Natives that were on those "states" beforehand...
When you throw in the fact that DC us a created place, not a natural city, created with agreement from Maryland and Virginia, and DC is in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, it makes even more sense why people from all three sound the same. Outsiders may not be able to tell, but, for the most part and with only exception to certain words or unique local slang, people from the eastern halves of Va and Md, including DC (so basically I-95 and everything East of it) are one large, similar culture...
Dead at your analysis of Petersburg though, you ain't wrong lol...
Petersburg is surrounded by The Whites and Chesterfield County to the north (Crackervilles), Dinwiddie Co to the west (Crackerville), Prince George Co and Hopewell to the east and south (Crackervilles). What part of VA you from, g?
Petersburg has alota black businesses but is an underserved and highly impoverished black city. The politics there are a mess and while I think it's a good visit if somebody is in the Richmond area, it's not somewhere that has a hell of alota redeeming qualities...
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I used to live in Colonial Whites for like 10 minutes. I couldn't wait to break my lease & get out of there!
Fukk whittle & roper!
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Thank you sirSome parts are being heavily gentrified so theres plenty of "good people" to be around.
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Thanks breh I appreciate you
