Would you rather live in 1991 or 2019?

[eastsideTT]

2019.



No GPS or internet.

No GPS is part of the reason? Ppl rely on GPS that much? Back then if you were going somewhere you’d never been, just look at a map and plan the route. Learn your north/south/east/west and learn where the major roads go im prob in the minority but GPS wasnt much of a game changer i dont even have location services turned on on my phone

 

[Nintendough]

wh

why would I want to be a black man living in the middle of the crack era and mass incarceration

why would you wanna stay in a land where being a fakkit is cool?

 

[eastsideTT]

The excitement for what the future held in the early 90s, with household computers and the internet taking off, was indescribable. Now that the future we were looking forward to is here though ...

 

[Roland Coltrane]

91

I'd be like Biff from Back to the Future and make a fortune sports betting


I'd have nothing but the finest 90s turbo thots


fukk a smart phone

 

[ScoopNScore]

Brooklyn was MORE white back then if I'm not mistaken.

Not how I remember it...look at Crown Heights n around the Prospect Park area just to name a few, WAY different!

 

[MikeyC]

Back in 91, they had:

No internet
No PlayStation
No FIFA
No smartphones
No iPads
No Netflix
No 4K/HD TVs

Plus, My team was in the old second division

I'd rather live in 2019. No argument.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Brooklyn was MORE white back then if I'm not mistaken.

And Puerto Ricans still seem to be the dominant group in East Harlem (even though there's a lot of Mexicans and Dominicans now too)

East Harlem is looking like little Tijuana these days.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Brooklyn was MORE white back then if I'm not mistaken.

 

[$lim]

i’m all about the 90s but......2019

if i want 90s hip hop & movies...i can still get that anytime i want now

 

[eastsideTT]

Hes not wrong. Most of south brooklyn was ‘ethnic’ white - irish & italian. Now all those areas are chinese, arab, etc. plus canarsie and parts of flatbush still had white people. Greenpoint had white ppl who were born there (opposed to the transplants today)

Different types of whites compared to the transplants today. The now gentrified black strongholds were actually black strongholds , but a huge swath of the boro was white new yorkers

Despite white transplants flooding bed stuy and clinton hill today, there were way more white ppl in brooklyn in the early 90s. They all left for staten island, jersey shore or Florida

 

[Cave Savage]

Some neighborhoods have gained white people and others have lost. Canarsie was majority white in 1990, and now it's one of the blackest neighborhoods in NYC

East Harlem is looking like little Tijuana these days.

Those Mexicans are expanding but I still see a ton of Puerto Rican people and Puerto Rican flags when I hang out in Bushwick.
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[Kwabena]

1991

Would give me a chance to collect collectables that are stupid rare and expensive now.

You'd go back in time to acquire collectibles. Think about what you just said

 

[Clive42]

Both eras have their pros and cons

1991
Pros:
Many aspects of local/national cultures still had their soul and were not watered down
Hip Hop
No fukking gentrification
More labour jobs available than today
You could get away with less serious things like littering, squatting (in abadoned places), parking etc. compared to today, simply because enforcement wasnt as efficient, plus new laws weren't invented yet
Could actually move out of your family's home (local housing market was more affordable)
More social/public housing available (even if they were more dangerous)

Cons:
More dangerous
Poverty was worse
In your face racism much more common
IRA were still blowing up public places every week
People got away with serious things they're less likely to get away with today (corrupt police, rapists, pedophiles etc.)

2019
Pros:
Safer
Police are getting hotted up for their bullshyt (ironically the first and most famous instance of this happened in 1991 in the form of the Rodney King beating)
Technology linking the world together providing many benefits
Phones making video evidence more common (a lifeline these days)
Internet
torrents
Channel Tunnel didnt exist in 1991
CGI is AMAZING these days - As a result, films that couldnt be made years ago now can

Cons:
You cannot say anything without backlash/PC culture
Technology creating a very problematic society
Young people have less confidence
Gentrification
More controlled society
Cashless society + other book of revelations quotes are starting to come to life
I cant see my favourite building from my house no more
Donald Trump
Racism now existing in a way where racists can twist racism claims and make the victim look like they're just 'playing the race card'
The well intentioned movement that inevitably became the shytstorm that is MeToo

 

[Kwabena]

Give up your laptop, your phone and the internet to acquire collectibles brehs

 

[Cave Savage]

Hes not wrong. Most of south brooklyn was ‘ethnic’ white - irish & italian. Now all those areas are chinese, arab, etc. plus canarsie and parts of flatbush still had white people. Greenpoint had white ppl who were born there (opposed to the transplants today)

Different types of whites compared to the transplants today. The now gentrified black strongholds were actually black strongholds , but a huge swath of the boro was white new yorkers

Despite white transplants flooding bed stuy and clinton hill today, there were way more white ppl in brooklyn in the early 90s. They all left for staten island, jersey shore or Florida

Right, North Brooklyn is whiter now for sure but South Brooklyn lost a lot of its white population.

Flatbush still has plenty of Jews in those Victorian houses whose families never left