This. A lot of people make "staying in the neighborhood" sound like its easier said than done.
That kind of environment is legitimately soul-sucking.
Why Do So Many Ppl Wanna Move Out The Hood?
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That kind of environment is legitimately soul-sucking.
shadowking
All Star
I've been reading books on investments and sharing my knowledge and literally no one caresone guy laughed at me because I said I was thinking about retirement. I cut him off the 3rd week of dating bc he literally was trying to tell me I'm nuts for wanting better.
This is legitimately scary though especially long term. The pride of being ignorant is such a tax on one's soul I don't know how you can redeem such.
The lack of public investments in black owned areas is why:
Our school systems is such a mess
Property values are low due to legacy red lining
Lack of markets and groceries which enables public participation
How are the voting systems? Do people actually attend political meetings? Are the councilmen aware ?
BrokePhiBroke
Superstar
Nobody gives a fukk and most times you don't even know who the hell is running for what until you see a thousand signs before voting day.
I just really hate the mentality here . This city could be great but it's so stuck in a slave mentality.
shadowking
All Star
Tbh you can save them if they don't want to be saved.
On the other hand, do they even know that they could be saved or have they given up?
Horrible situation all around.
Are you staying there long term or moving back east
People wanna leave the hood cause they don't have what it takes to build it up.Why do so many people from the hood move to the suburbs the first chance they get?
The suburbs are:
Boring
Away from everything
Lame ass neighbors (especially if its a white neighborhood)
HOA fees
Long ass commute to work assuming ur jobs in the city (which it most likely is)
And ur COL is more expensive
Ur slaving away at a 30 year loan to live around people who trip over what color ur house is painted. Or worse white people who always call the cops on u & antagonize u.
If u dont want to live up under people then atleast a rural area is better than the suburbs will ever be and cheaper.
Versus the hood
PRIME real estate
Alot of hoods/inner city neighborhoods are close to everything/amenities
Close to ur job (assuming its in the city)
Cheaper to own and live in
Why do nikkas wanna be fancy & move to the burbs to be up under CACs who antagonize u the first chance they get money?just to slave away for a 500-600k+ house u wont own until ur damn near dead
Theres a reason people are gentrifying the hood. Its close to everything. But the people from the hood who have money are too scared to invest in it. Meanwhile hipsters and foreigners like the Chinese are cleaning up Detroit & Baltimore up and kicking out low income people who rent. And it dont take much money either. Im sure yall can afford a 100k house in B More and eat.
Outside of being involved in some type of gang/drug beef or family issues....why leave the hood? And dont say crime cuz if u mind ur business , dont be around hot spots and are not involved in the street politics u will be fine.
Also why tf are foreign investors able to buy up shyt in America
I wish my parents stayed with that house we had in DC. That area is starting to get gentrified. I got a friend who lived in the worst part of UPTOWN DC which is close to everything basically. His parents had the house for the LOW. It was a bad neighborhood. But the first chance they getthey moved to Silver spring and got fancy. Now that same house they had is well over 500,000$$. Its close to EVERYTHING. That coulda been theres if they just kept it. Now his parents are struggling to pay for a house they wont own until their dead and their HOA gives them shyt.
For my brehs who live in the hood....start owning property. If u move out, find a spot in the hood close to some ammenities. Ull thank me in 10 years.
You need a large grouping of people or individual command of a lot of wealth + political power to turn an area around.
If you're not going to bring a large amount of employment (like a middle-class creating manufacturing hub), and you're not going to buy up 20 houses and have a grocery store dropped in the middle, then you're not going to just "build it up."
BrokePhiBroke
Superstar
I have a major job opportunity. I've been in training for three months so that's that.
I NEED this so right now I'm here. We'll see what the future holds tho.
Pitfalls0117
Invokana Trump
Where in SE you at breh? There are plenty of spots that are technically hood but are quieter and you would have no problem fixing up a row house how you like for cheap and you'd be fine if you mind your business and move properly.South east DC is a hood “friend”....
Now its getting gentrified “friend” & all that cheap housing is going up in prices “friend” cuz someone took a chance...
On another note I can see why newark will never get gentrified. Who tf wanna live there
Greenway in particular is mad nice to me, quieter, more spacious, close to the river, lots of nice row houses, not many big apartment complexes (except Greenway apartments itself but that's further up by Minnesota/East Capitol). White people stealing Trinidad and everywhere else, might as well reinvest in SE before they get there. Because you better believe they're coming
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
Nah, I'm not going back to dusty ass West Baltimore.
Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
What exactly is "The 'Hood"?
For most of our history, from slavery through the Great Migration, most of us either lived in rural settings or cities.
Our city living was externally referred to as "The Ghetto" right on up until the 1980s and crack.
Previously, "ghettoes" were still considered by us to be communities, or "neighborhoods." Harlem was always a community, or even called a "village."
"The Hood" is the post-Crack Generation destroyed version of the neighborhood. It is not the ghetto. The ghetto had a semblance of hope, structure, dignity, and aspiration. "The Hood" doesn't. "The "Hood" is mired in dead-end hopelessness.
Until NWA and John Singleton, the term "'Hood" wasn't even present within the culture.
Fred Sanford and the Evans Family never referred to "The 'Hood." They lived in "The Ghetto."
1940s Harlem
1940s Harlem
For most of our history, from slavery through the Great Migration, most of us either lived in rural settings or cities.
Our city living was externally referred to as "The Ghetto" right on up until the 1980s and crack.
Previously, "ghettoes" were still considered by us to be communities, or "neighborhoods." Harlem was always a community, or even called a "village."
"The Hood" is the post-Crack Generation destroyed version of the neighborhood. It is not the ghetto. The ghetto had a semblance of hope, structure, dignity, and aspiration. "The Hood" doesn't. "The "Hood" is mired in dead-end hopelessness.
Until NWA and John Singleton, the term "'Hood" wasn't even present within the culture.
Fred Sanford and the Evans Family never referred to "The 'Hood." They lived in "The Ghetto."
1940s Harlem
1940s Harlem
?We gon pretend the Northeast don't have good burbs like Irvington, EO, Chester, Wilmington, Camden, parts of PG County, etc.??
From DC originally and moved to Miami. And before u ask partna, I lived in PG county right outside dc too and it had a black middle class. It had some of the highest taxes in the state. And parts of PG County are just middle class hoods since they moved dudes from DC out. If u had stayed in those hoods or bought a spot for 100k it would be worth way more once gentrification time happens.
Buying in the inner city is cheaper than the suburbs.
Idk how New Orleans works but in east coast cities the hood is usually in the inner city close to alot of ammenities.
Kids was already addressed. Magnet school. But then again this is for people without kids. If u have kids then I understand.
Maybe the NO is just super bad but I lived in southeast DC for years and I never caught a stray. What hoods yall be where its cracking 24/7? Maybe I shoulda took into account every hood cuz some are hotter than others.[/QUOTE]
Breh in what city in the Northeast is buying in the city cheaper than the suburbs?i don't even think that's the case in philly which is the cheapest northeastern city
All that running to this or that white neighborhood aint gon do shyt till the root of it all is examined cuz in 10 years that suburb u moved to will transform into the hood
Its inevitable if u just keep running[/QUOTE]
big part of white supremacy is to make sure black folk are never comfortable enough to establish anything
Its inevitable if u just keep running[/QUOTE]
big part of white supremacy is to make sure black folk are never comfortable enough to establish anything
TheBlackSun
Pro
Other than being real quiet, not really, but then again, it's all about quality of life. Most of the Suburbs I lived in where pretty racially diverse though. Its quiet, but there's ways to entertain yourself. There were a lot of cool things to do in regards to nature, with the benefit of living up in the hills.