Preference: NY or LA?

[King]

nikka what?

what your saying doesn't make sense and can apply to every city in the country.

I’m saying proportionally LA isn’t that great. And since it’s a commuter city that’s way more spread out than others.

Finding fine women are few and far and between, even though it’s more of them

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Even u would pick LA over the flossy

for the damn 100000th time, Malk, I am not from the Floss, I am from QUEENS come through though - I got a few shooters that my brother recruited from Brooklyn out of state in Jersey, check in required just tell them I sent you. My name rings bells - don’t make me look bad. Remember the streets don’t love no one like I do

 

[Jean Jacket]

I rest my case....

 

[Jean Jacket]

Even u would pick LA over the flossy

 

[Dihsarm]

Been to both, but there's just something about New York vibe that I fukk with. LA is cool though..

 

[JadeB]

I wanna check out Los Angeles and San Francisco but just due to the lack of Black people in both places I would never live there....

There are some middle class/wealthy Black neighborhoods in LA like Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, and Venice Beach. Granted, LA is somewhat more integrated than New York and we are healthily spread out across the city with obvious concentrations in South Central and some suburbs like Pasadena.

 

[murksiderock]

Same, as a Phoenician and west coast/side nikka.

being from Phoenix idk if can get used to that type of density in NY. Phoenix is hella spread out

and its not just NY shyt even LA applies to this to. I was in LA and it felt nikkas was on top of each other and everything was packed, traffic the whole 9.

saving points to me with LA is that its not toally diff from my home and culturally were the same.

This brings up a good point too...

Just like NY ain't all tall buildings, all of LA ain't inconvenient to live in car free. Mid-City probably the GOAT place to live in LA, you right in between everything and you can def live car free---->I know a girl originally from Spokane Washington (she black too), who I met in NC in '13 or '14. She relocated to LA a year or so later and was living in Mid-City when I saw her like 3 years ago, and she didn't have a car...

LA is a lot more packed and urban than people think it is and there are parts you can live in that having a car is not a necessity...

@murksiderock

So those who choose la over new york. Will do the same to London tokyo and paris

Alll CAP

Haven't been to either of those cities. Off what I know about them, NO desire whatsoever to see Tokyo...

Wouldn't mind seeing Paris and London but could only somewhat envision living in London...

Stop talking like LA is a regional city. Its a global city consistently mentioned in the same breath as all these cities you mentioned. And stop trying to turn this into a "versus" thread, this is more about what people's preference is. Act like there aren't people who wouldn't prefer LA and NY over those foreign cities, especially people from those countries that left those countries to come to LA and NY lmao...

People are people. Someone growing up in France their whole life likely doesn't have the same view of Paris as we do over here, and Los Angeles (and NY) is considered foreign and international over there....

But this thread actually validates what I always thought, the draw to LA and NY is close to 50/50. I've only lived here, on both coasts, I've met literally a ton of people in real life talk about both cities in every way imaginable and I'd never gotten this impression that there's an overall consensus favorite between the two...

Plenty of people prefer one over the other and plenty of people find reason to dislike one over the other but outside of Stan shyt hyping your preference that we some of yall doing in here lol, in most people's minds they are pretty close...

 

[SATAN]

Nicole is from New York.

I rest my case

 

[CashmereThoughts]

you dont get much bay area culture from San Francisco but mostly from the cities outside of it, which have even higher black % population than NYC.

What Bay Area city are your comparing to a city of 8+ million in terms of blackness? maybe you could find a town or two with a few 100k population where the few blacks in the bay are relaged too that techically has a higer percentage of blacks but you wont fool me, i was in the bay last weekend.and the fact that NYC black population is comperable to the whole state of Californion (nations most populated state) was obvious to me

 

[CashmereThoughts]

This brings up a good point too...

Just like NY ain't all tall buildings, all of LA ain't inconvenient to live in car free.

this is doable for me if you live somewhere near the red line and because uber is significantly cheaper in LA plus you can leverage amazon and other services for groceries etc.

but you not convincing an LA person. They look at you crazy when you tell them your using the train

 

[CashmereThoughts]

quantity of the Population = /= How fine the women are,

never has this type of discussion been ruled by this, you just desperate

go to the galeria mall in Houston and you will see more fine black women in one place then anywhere in the the state of california and yes i know, LA has a high dime ratio but its a numbers game and LA loses that instatly.

 

[murksiderock]

•the US was "settled" from east to west, not west to east. African descendants first entrance to this nation was via the East Coast, hence why damn near every state (besides the New England ones) east of the Mississippi have larger black population in ratio than states west of it...

NY as both a city and state has had black people centuries longer than the territories that made up California. I just think this gets lost when some folk shyt on Cali's low black population, as if Cali had the same starting point DC or Georgia had, or as if Cali is located somewhere that Africans were sent to en masse...

•there are 300,000 more black people in California today than New York City:

Census profile: California

Census profile: New York, NY

Granted, the concentration of black folks is easily noted in NY, just clarifying that everyone who is saying there is "2 million" black people in NY, or that there is more black people in NY than the whole state of California, are wrong, and NYC is losing black residents at one of the most rapid rates in the country and the most rapid rate in its history...

As of 2019 from 2010, the black population in NYC is down 13.39%, a population of 279,696 black New Yorkers gone in 9 years (~31.1k blacks left NY on average annually in the '10s), with the borough breakdown like this:

•Manhattan is currently 12.3% black (15.6% in 2010), down 19% from '10 with a '10s population loss of 46,864 black people...

Bronx is currently 29% black (36.5% in 2010), down 18.72% for a population loss of 94,594 black people...

Brooklyn is currently 29.8% black (34.3% in 2010), down 11.25% for a population loss of 96,767 black people...

Staten Island is currently 9.5% black (10.6% in 2010), down 9.23% with a loss of 4,604 black people...

Queens is currently 17.3% black (19.1% in 2010), down 8.62% with a population loss of 36,767 black people...

There have been all kinds of reports on television and online about the continued exodus of black people in New York, and this is only relevant to the extent that some people have said that California being light on black population is an issue for them, as black people continue emptying out of The Boroughs...

Of course the culture remains, which people lose sight of in context of California but seem to understand with New York. Even The Bay, a truly depressed region for black people, has plenty of black culture left and its influence on other nationalities and groups in The Bay is clear and obvious...

 

[West Coast Avenger]

go to the galeria mall in Houston and you will see more fine black women in one place then anywhere in the the state of california and yes i know, LA has a high dime ratio but its a numbers game and LA loses that instatly.

.....still trying hard.....
LA=61
NYC=48
.....

.....and there are more NYC posters on this board....

 

[Hoodoo Child]

I have family in LA

 

[HabitualChiller]

I'd pick LA. You can't even really drive in NYC, housing is much more expensive, and I don't fukk with the cold and snow like that.