Suburban Poverty: Atlanta's Hidden Epidemic

[Rarebird77]

Yeah it's not just Clayton

Another reason I'm considering the move. My job is like 60-70 miles away EACH WAY... I get to work from home but it's not always the case.

If your car takes a shyt on you, you're fukked out here. And that's another reason why there's traffic almost 24/7 around here. Im feeling like its no longer worth staying here.

Kinda wanna do the small town thing

Nope move closer into the city. Don't let them push you out. At least try Stone Mountain, Decatur, somewhere like that. The city is still affordable in many places.

 

[Wild self]

Most whites who living in gentrification, don't have kids. . That explains why people who don't have families want little to no commitment outside of their jobs and friends.

That's why places in western Europe has negative birth rates. The cities are literally where you want a college based lifestyle till you 65 years old and infertile.

 

[AVXL]

It's always been that way. Y'all transplants never moved to the westside. Most folks 2-3rd generation westside. I was the only nikka in my circle growing up who didn't have parents from the A. Folks used to roast me and call me a NY nikka as a kid just because I never really picked up that westside drawl. My people ain't even from NY but to a westside nikka anything north of DC is New York.

SW Atlanta will stay Black. They already in the West End but so are a ton of young Black professionals too. Outside of that I can't see them taking over Cascade, Ben Hill and Adamsville. Y'all can speculate all you want but you kinda have to grow up interacting with them folks in SW to see what I'm talking about.

I think the SWATS will always stay black to a certain degree...I think anything not on the Beltline will stay as is, but if it's on the Beltline I think it's iffy especially when a lot of young black home owners our age are moving away from the city

 

[Rarebird77]

Yep. This is why we need to increase ownership through multi-family/generational living. Having multiple people in a household with steady incomes is way more stable than one or two people trying to make it. That way when the gentrification train pops up, we have the ability to stay put.

PREACH!

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Solutions?

 

[Rarebird77]

Most whites who living in gentrification, don't have kids. . That explains why people who don't have families want little to no commitment outside of their jobs and friends.

That's why places in western Europe has negative birth rates. The cities are literally where you want a college based lifestyle till you 65 years old and infertile.

It's a trick on both sides.

We're slaves to work either way you look at it.

You either are working to live in the city.

Or being underpaid in the suburbs of the future disenfranchised from work.

But this is why some in the white community talk alot about sustainability, buying local, and even communal living. There's a place in Atlanta, Eastlake Commons that has modeled communal living for example.

Something to think about.

 

[alpo]

But I thought Atlanta was the black mecca

stop listening to these fools on the coli

 

[desjardins]

Almost all the wards in Houston have been gentrified. 1st and 4th ward are done. Inroads are being made into 2nd ward and there's a rail line out there now. 3rd ward would be done if not for the economic collapse of 2008 but it's back on pace now. 5th ward is pretty much untouched for now and looking at the 6th ward map that area is pretty much finished as well. There's also mini pockets of gentrification in middle to lower middle class areas near Houston's none downtown business districts. shyt is crazy.

interesting , i was going say houston ain't being gentrified but really it's so big and spread out i don't really know the wards like that. i got fam near katy or whatever that area near george bush high is but that area seems mixed(richmond?). got some friends near the medical center over by the stadium but i don't consider that a "real" neighborhood.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Besides thread is sobering but there is plenty of black folks propsering. Went to REIA meeting in Manhattan back in September. Majority of the folks there were black. And they owned multiple property in the south and midwest. So yeah shyts fukked up but we have to use this as motivation to get into real estate. There is so many ways to make bread off real estate. TAX liens,Wholesaling,fix and flipping, renting etc. There is ALOT money out here. Build capital and better your credit should be must to fight this Gentrification plague. Let get this paper.

Houses for used car prices near universities, parks and prime for future development in the heart of growing cities. Basic old homes but solid foundations

 

[Wild self]

It's a trick on both sides.

We're slaves to work either way you look at it.

You either are working to live in the city.

Or being underpaid in the suburbs of the future disenfranchised from work.

But this is why some in the white community talk alot about sustainability, buying local, and even communal living. There's a place in Atlanta, Eastlake Commons that has modeled communal living for example.

Something to think about.

Gentrification only benefits people that don't have kids.

 

[Sleepy Walker]

yupp

It's all kinds of thieves, miscreants and fiends over there.

 

[Poitier]

I don't think people realize the magnitude of Black migration into GA and ITP/OTP Atlanta and how its dwarfing any others. It will be talked about as a great migration.

 

[JBoy]

stop listening to these fools on the coli

it's still one of the better metro areas for Blacks in the country (along with DC) it has some of the best home ownership/highest number of college degree holding blacks and a poverty rate that is generally below the average for most metro areas Black population poverty is pretty rampant in 95% of the country, you miss the great recession we just had or something?

 

[havoc]

I was close to moving to Miami again but they tried me again on my pay. I still want to tho.

Fla has no state tax so atleast I won't get completely fukked like I do out in GA as well

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. Gentrification has made Miami expensive. You want cheap rent; you have to move to the hood. If you aint Latino, its going to be difficult for you to find a job. Traffic over here has gotten bad because a couple lanes in the highway are being used for express lanes that come with a price which created a persistant traffic congestion. The homes arent shyt compare to a nice home in metro Atlanta.

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

it ain't ever to late to start an economy