Brandon M.
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ur hood must not be a hood then friend...
my hood is Newark nj. nobody wants to stay in Newark New Jersey friend
my hood is Newark nj. nobody wants to stay in Newark New Jersey friend
Why Do So Many Ppl Wanna Move Out The Hood?
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BlackPrint
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Outside of wanting to live near white people (Which accounts I would say for about 70% of ppl that leave)
There is a material difference in the life a child will live in The Hood vs the Burbs. We get caught up in remembering all the good food, the parades, the events, those summer nights on the stoop and all the character building sequences that we went through and forget that The Hood is a very fukked up place . That's not a place to raise a child if there are alternatives. Seeing generations of drug addiction and urban criminality has a profound effect on a young mind that's irreversible going forward, I think. That's not to say that alot of brilliant minds don't come out of The Hood, but to level the playing field, you gotta get out OR be extremely proactive with parenting (which u see alot of in the hood)
There is a material difference in the life a child will live in The Hood vs the Burbs. We get caught up in remembering all the good food, the parades, the events, those summer nights on the stoop and all the character building sequences that we went through and forget that The Hood is a very fukked up place . That's not a place to raise a child if there are alternatives. Seeing generations of drug addiction and urban criminality has a profound effect on a young mind that's irreversible going forward, I think. That's not to say that alot of brilliant minds don't come out of The Hood, but to level the playing field, you gotta get out OR be extremely proactive with parenting (which u see alot of in the hood)
Unless you live in like mufukkin... Idk one of them tiny towns in the Midwest or some shyt where every single block is tore up and nikkas don't have running water(like flint or Gary some shyt). That's not true. It's alot of people in the hood who are better off than others, that got good jobs and don't get vic'd + still pullup to the juneteenth in the benz truck and get love.
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Saw my first dead body at the age of 4.
Didn't know my multiplication tables till 3rd Grade.
Looked up to drug dealers/criminals because that's all there were around me.
Got used to sleeping through gunfights, police/ambulance sirens, loud arguments, etc.
The only thing 'cool' about living in the 'hood is the fact that you can stack loot easier, but there are FAR too many negatives that outweigh that one positive.
"Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough....."
Didn't know my multiplication tables till 3rd Grade.
Looked up to drug dealers/criminals because that's all there were around me.
Got used to sleeping through gunfights, police/ambulance sirens, loud arguments, etc.
The only thing 'cool' about living in the 'hood is the fact that you can stack loot easier, but there are FAR too many negatives that outweigh that one positive.
"Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough....."
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
Exactly
Field Marshall Bradley
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That's under consideration... I'm with you for the most part... I'll always have residences in a hood near you...
ultraflexed
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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.
Spoken from a true non-home owner.
Why move out the hood
1). More for your money
2). Better school are in the subs
3). HOA exist for the sole purpose of stopping neighbors from dropping the property value down by doing stupid sh#t to there house.
4). Lower crime rate...
I could go on...
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I get what op is saying..
But just moving your kids to the suburbs doesn’t guarantee their safety..
Especially in the climate we are in that is looking like Jim Crow everyday..
Seeing downtown Houston gentrified when back in the late 80s-early 90s, white folks and wannabe white folks would be out that bytch by 6..
Same goes for SF and seeing the white washing/sterilization of Fillmore, Hayes Valley and so many more..
But a lot of the people that are trying to stay in the “hood”are getting undermined by developers, landlords and the city..
It’s a lot of crooked shyt behind the scenes...
So even if people who have had these houses for generations want to keep them..
They are either being bought out by what they consider “generous” compensations when they are not..
Or..
Muthafukkas are going down to courthouses, etc.. looking at deeds and finding loopholes to get the property..
They are playing a wicked game that a lot of us are not privy to information like others..
It’s really a catch 22, even for black middle class neighborhoods
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I’m still thinking about everything else you said but I do agree with the rural area part bing better than the burbs to a degree. I hate suburban subdivisions where all the house are right next to each other. What’s the point of having a nice house if you can’t even play music loud without bugging neighbors. Usually in rural areas, houses are much further apart from each other. Back in the day, cable didn’t provide service in a lot of rural areas. That’s not the case anymore though, so rural areas are more appealing than suburbs to me.
U can own a home in the hood. Ull get more for ur money actually. Ull pay less and when
Gentrification comes it will be worth more so....
And I brought up magnet schools for schooling.
fukk HOA.
A lower crime rate wont guarentee u wont be a victim. Plenty of houses get burgularized in the burbs.
BlackPrint
The Mayor
Now.....I'm pretty sure you and I both know where HOA's came from and what/who they were intended to keep out
And when u start talkign property taxes in the burbs,u definitely not getting more for ur money.
Though I will say I feel like food and groceries are more expensive in the hood.
Until Amazon decides to build there that is.
I get what op is saying..
But just moving your kids to the suburbs doesn’t guarantee their safety..
Especially in the climate we are in that is looking like Jim Crow everyday..
Seeing downtown Houston gentrified when back in the late 80s-early 90s, white folks and wannabe white folks would be out that bytch by 6..
Same goes for SF and seeing the white washing/sterilization of Fillmore, Hayes Valley and so many more..
But a lot of the people that are trying to stay in the “hood”are getting undermined by developers, landlords and the city..
It’s a lot of crooked shyt behind the scenes...
So even if people who have had these houses for generations want to keep them..
They are either being bought out by what they consider “generous” compensations when they are not..
Or..
Muthafukkas are going down to courthouses, etc.. looking at deeds and finding loopholes to get the property..
They are playing a wicked game that a lot of us are not privy to information like others..
It’s really a catch 22, even for black middle class neighborhoods
They are tryna push everyone out into the burbs and make it the new hood while the city will be too expensive to live in. They saw a goldmine while the ppl in the hood didnt.
Now everyone on the outskirts living savage away from everything. SF is a good example.
:mjpalm:The city and the hood are not the same thing. Even burbs can be "the hood."
Bruh I saw so much bad in the hood coming up, I am glad I live on a boring, relatively peaceful side of Chicago now. I go down two blocks and i'm in my old neighborhood
The jobs in the hood....scarce and low paying. I wasn't able to get real work till I got a car and moved around, you guessed it, to other parts of the city and in the burbs.
So when they have all the money to make the hood into something new, and we don't, what value does the hood hold? It's like saying because you sold
your business to a multinational for X amount of money that you would have seen returns like that. No. The sweetheart deals and development money that revitalizes old hoods
are not pocket change, and unfortunately the people with the most to gain from said hoods are the ones who least need the returns.
My old neighborhood wasn't shyt while I was there, and it wasn't until developers started putting folks out that it was safe and started to look inhabitable. So unless there is a glut
of money and black development firms who can throw their weight around, there is a reason these areas see no help until the money boys come through.
Bruh I saw so much bad in the hood coming up, I am glad I live on a boring, relatively peaceful side of Chicago now. I go down two blocks and i'm in my old neighborhood
The jobs in the hood....scarce and low paying. I wasn't able to get real work till I got a car and moved around, you guessed it, to other parts of the city and in the burbs.
So when they have all the money to make the hood into something new, and we don't, what value does the hood hold? It's like saying because you soldyour business to a multinational for X amount of money that you would have seen returns like that. No. The sweetheart deals and development money that revitalizes old hoods
are not pocket change, and unfortunately the people with the most to gain from said hoods are the ones who least need the returns.
My old neighborhood wasn't shyt while I was there, and it wasn't until developers started putting folks out that it was safe and started to look inhabitable. So unless there is a glut
of money and black development firms who can throw their weight around, there is a reason these areas see no help until the money boys come through.
my (and wife's) plans are to buy a house in the burbs, maybe in westchester NY or maybe in a different county. for the space, a big backyard with pool, getting away from the city but not too far, better schools, less crime, more scenic beauty (wilderness and shyt)