Suburban Poverty: Atlanta's Hidden Epidemic

[alpo]

If you can't make it in Atl, don't bother to add Miami in the list of potential residency. Cost of living is rapidly going up, and gentrification is taking place in Miami. If you aint Latino, its going to be difficult for you to find a job. Traffic over here has gotten bad because the a couple lanes in the highway are being used for express lanes that come with a price.

for the last time you tourist nikkas, we don't go by cities, you chump! breh can find a job in fort laud, north Miami, Aventura etc.. I can't stand you tourist nikkas! we got three big counties breh

 

[Vonte3000]

It's all kinds of thieves, miscreants and fiends over there.[/QUOTE/]
Which is why I'm happy my fam moved out

fukked up thing is when we first moved there it wasn't that bad

 

[havoc]

for the last time you tourist nikkas, we don't go by cities, you chump! breh can find a job in fort laud, north Miami, Aventura etc.. I can't stand you tourist nikkas! we got three big counties breh

I'm not a tourist, breh. I go to work in Miami daily and live outside of Dade. I know what I'm talking about.

 

[BeeCityRoller]

I agree that moving to the inner city is the future. Unfortunately the white boys have already flipped and gentrified most of those neighborhoods down south. Even a basic 60 year old, 3Bed/2Bath with no garage ̶a̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶g̶h̶e̶t̶t̶o̶ near NODA/Uptown Charlotte goes for ~200k.

Still a better bet than buying in the suburbs. New cookie-cutter homes out here in Harrisburg/Concord going for $250-300k. Combine this with mandatory HOA fees and PMI (because honestly how many of these people are really putting 20% down) and you have another housing bubble with the next recession by 2020 thats going to hit the outskirts worse than anyone else.

 

[JamilALAmin]

Id say yea, easy access to most parts of town and around people who look like you. The crime is mainly petty so if you are smart you eill be straight

Crime on the westside is way down compared to back in the day but I don't know if I'd call it petty. It's just un organized. Which to me is worse. Cuz you don't know who the fukk is who. Can't find the OG to go to smooth shyt over or find out who broke into your whip. Getting robbed or coming home to your door kicked in isn't petty in my book. That's a decent sized L to me. And this ain't New Orleans by any stretch but I would tell anyone who moved to the westside to be on the lookout for the young boys on the jack because they will rob you over here. That's pretty much the only thing these young westside nikkas do well

 

[Wild self]

I agree that moving to the inner city is the future. Unfortunately the white boys have already flipped and gentrified most of those neighborhoods down south. Even a basic 60 year old, 3Bed/2Bath with no garage ̶a̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶g̶h̶e̶t̶t̶o̶ near NODA/Uptown Charlotte goes for ~200k.

Still a better bet than buying in the suburbs. New cookie-cutter homes out here in Harrisburg/Concord going for $250-300k. Combine this with mandatory HOA fees and PMI (because honestly how many of these people are really putting 20% down) and you have another housing bubble with the next recession by 2020 thats going to hit the outskirts worse than anyone else.

How Come people living in these gentrified cities don't have kids?

Hurricane Sandy in NYC is proof that inner cities, no matter how gentrified they get, is a sitting duck for a natural disaster.

 

[Self_Born7]

If you black and willingly live in Cobb then I'm prayin for you

who you telling, even with clean and legit tags and license, i dont like driving or being in cobb period... got peeps i kick it with in acworth and smyrna
the moment i get off 285 into smyrna i'm
when in acworth im like

 

[BedRoomI'z]

That's like where I stay at and quite a few areas in Memphis. Once black people started moving out to these areas outside of the core of the city around the late 90's, white folks with money moved out, the schools started performing terribly, and all the economy left. Now you have neighborhoods with big, 2 story 2000-plus sq ft bandos surrounded by section 8 housing and the lowest performing schools in the state. You got doctors and shyt living around the block from nikkas trapping. The property is cheap af so anybody can move in

These areas also suffered because the economy (malls, restaurants, attractions) left the area and were replaced by shyt like dollar stores, beauty supply stores, and cheap clothing stores. Anybody from Memphis or has ever spent time here during the 90's/early 2000's remebers the Raleigh Springs Mall. That shyt now is essentially a gigantic abandonded building on the side of the highway. Because it ain't shyt out in these areas except cheap shyt, you have to drive even further out to the burbs to go anywhere worth shopping at. That creates neighborhoods that no one has an incentive to live in; because they're too far out from the inner city and the points of interests are further out in the burbs. So areas like where I stay at just ending becoming hood af because there's no purpose in anyone moving out here other than buying a decent sized house for cheap

Dapped and repped+

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

This been going on in Dallas.

Hell just look at LA for an example. Compton like the orginal ghetto suburb that was formerly all white

HELLA midwest/rust belt suburbs fit that description too. Cept these places had blacks longer than compton


Those desperately poor midwest burbs like Gary, Chicago Heights, East st. Louis, east chicago, Harvey, Rockford n shyt got some of the worst, grimiest hoods in america

 

[fscballin]

black ppl will be out there with no jobs, no bus line...no transportation..

Everything you named keeps us enslaved

And yes, there is a difference between transporting and traveling.
Not realizing that difference is one of the main things that keeps us enslaved/incarcerated

 

[Francis White]

Let me get this right, people from the south always crap on NYC and claim everyone should move to Atlanta only to show its just as bad if not worse for blacks there. The black Mecca they called it is just like I said it would be . You tell people come to this area, it's better for blacks here and it's the best but it's still in America and long as keep the same habits and don't see the trends coming or own a thing, this will be the end result every time .

 

[Francis White]

Everything you named keeps us enslaved

And yes, there is a difference between transporting and traveling.
Not realizing that difference is one of the main things that keeps us enslaved/incarcerated

Best post in the thread.

 

[Motife43]

It's crazy how the historically black neighborhoods in Atlanta (ie O4W) is shifting toward more white people living there. It's not naivety, I know it's gentrification, but this is actually happening in my lifetime, BEFORE MY EYES, and I'm only 25.

 

[UserNameless]

@WeeBey Brice


WE use Dukes mayo, pleighboi.

Black people come to Maryland. Baltimore-DC Metro is one big pot of #blackexcellence

folks been sleeping for damn near a decade. outta 5 black folks from VA down to SC, 1 would say they'd move to the DMV... the other 4 would say atl. doesn't get the publicity Atl does.

thread is looooooooong overdue...I always chuckle at these threads with black folk so thirsty to move to Atlanta ...speaking of thirst didn't they just have a water shortage a few summers ago?
I also remember a national news story a few years ago about the job outlook for the country and they showed a "career fair" event going on in the city.....the line to get into that fair had to extend for a good half-a-mile with people not able to get in before the fair ended and to add insult to injury, one of the career fair spokesmen that they interviewed got on TV and said that they were having the fair to "boost morale" - in other words most of the employers at the fair were not actually offering jobs

Atlanta is about to reach critical mass with black folks who go there with an income less than a certain amount, and no upward trajectory to break that threshold. time to evaluate other options. Fux with Atl heavy, and folks appreciate the open arms, but it's weekend mini vacay and speical event status to me. Shyt, you could post up from thursday to sunday and get the experience. Half the folks moving to Atl can't even enjoy the city experience like that because their bread is iffy... if you can't enjoy the city when you want to, and you're not using the city's rich, black networking opportunities, then what's the point?

That's why I been looking at Mid Town. ..

Boy you gon get taxed for that Midtown loft......


But if you can afford it tho...

Subdivision suburbia


Unwashed vinyl siding, patchy yards, struggle trees, oil stained driveways, fukked up road pavement and identical homes......and HOA fees

Hood suburb for sure.

Six figure suburbs can have the same cookie cutter feel, but the houses and landscaping are just ... Pristine shyt. I'd argue that upper middle class suburbs feel more soulless, however. Just reeks of pill poppin, van driving, wine sippin' soccer moms whose husbands are likely having affairs.


Exurbs are the wave if you're caking.

 

[EndDomination]

US will look like Europe in the next 20-30 where the poor are on the outskirts and the wealthy are in the inner cities. They already did it pretty much in NYC

This already happened, this is a secondary White flight. The flight to the inner-city.
The real question is "Will this reverse again?"