NYC is DONE
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- shellie9
I hope LA is done. Go on... get out of here.
As someone who's from LA, I can do without all the dreamers pushing beachfront property so high the average person can't live there anymore. I was raised by the beach by a totally normal middle-class family. The beach was my back yard and my summertime baby sitter. Come home when the lights come on.
Not even asking for a lot of frills -- but It's a shame that giving that kind of life to a family requires a single or dual income of 500k or more a year to own something, 250k or more to rent and have a separate bedroom for 1 child (or 2 if they share), maybe a home office, a good range of kid activities (sports, dance, tutors, summer camps), possibly private school for pre-school at least, K-12 maybe, savings if the world blows up, a retirement plan so you don't have to work until your 75, and one 5 day family vacation a year. My mother raised me on between 65-80k by the beach in a single-family home, as a single mother, worked the system to get me into the magnet arts schools for free as well as keep me in gymnastics. That is impossible now.
- It really sucks. Problem is worldwide. Real estate just isn't something for the middle class anymore.inteliboy
- Waaaay more people with money, much less beach to go around.nb
- "It's a big club and you ain't in it"Maaku
- Good old timesi_was
- hear hearPonyBoy
- Try London. Same problem but fucking shite weather, terrorist attacks and Boris.shapesalad
- Oh and no beach. Just the muddy river Thames.shapesalad
- Beach life is where its at, that's how I'm raising my daughter now, fuck the states, so many other choices out there, US is just a ghetto.moldero
- what does the world look like when middle class families can't afford children or the enrichment it takes to replicate what their parents provided?shellie
- Who you telling. My rent is 2k and that’s a bargain for a two bedroom decently nice spot. Been saving for a spot and shits slipping out of reach slowly.ArmandoEstrada
- Friend just moved to a new place for 4K month and I’m tripping, for that leave and make life elsewhere.ArmandoEstrada
- zarkonite2
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/…
Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’
(It’s not.)By Jerry Seinfeld
Mr. Seinfeld is a comedian.
- PhanLo0
Having met loads of NY graffiti writers that grew up that era, modern NY sounds like a breeze. Folk forget how easy they have it.
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Some more here:
http://internationalphotomag.com…- That second one could be easily be in Glasgow in the 70's too.PhanLo
- Apart from the crazy rent, maybe the exodus of people will make the rents a bit less ludicrous in NY.PhanLo
- Rents have gone down a little but not that much. Hopefully, this will purge the city of a lot of people who belong somewhere else.CyBrainX
- That fourth one is very close to where I live. It's on Delancey St. on the north side of the WIlliamsburg bridge entrance...CyBrainX
- ...I was reading in a Lower East Side Facebook group how that record store had a great Caribbean and Latin selection of music.CyBrainX
- PhanLo6
- yeah new york looks like it used to be fun.ben_
- spent a lot of time skateboarding there in the 90's and it's changed so much.ben_
- Do you ever wish you could go back in time to different places and experience them, like a time tourist? I'd love to wander around 70's NY – The Warriors vibesBaskerviIle
- Nope, never.
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Always.
I'd love to visit 1905s metropolises - LDN, NY, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Calcutta, Constant...just, everyfuckingwhereNairn - ...Berlin! And then do the same but 1925, then 1880, then.. Jesus.
The reason we don't have time travel is bound to our not yet being immortal.Nairn - I want to see my hometown across all of its ages, from before the Neanderthals had caves there. Timetravel would be the ultimate timesuck.Nairn
- @Nairn there is a scene in the movie Lucy in which you see a timelapse since the ancient Lucy to current Times Square...grafician
- Last pic, Brazil Terry Guilliami_was
- Amazing photos.. Where they from? Is there any more?dee-dubs
- I'd love to go back to the early 80's new york, birth of hiphop, handball court graffiti, downtown scene, paint a subway car.PhanLo
- Last time I was there I got to see Pete Rock DJ in a tiny bar, which was cool. Folk were dancing like crazy, but we'd not long arrived and had to leave earlyPhanLo
- as we were jetlaggedPhanLo
- Some more flicks
https://www.bjp-onli…PhanLo - @ Dee-Dubs I got them here, there's a few more too https://allthatsinte…PhanLo
- Poor dogs and all those kids making fun of them, who is the animal ?i_was
- caterpus1
QBN is TOAST
- instrmntl1
Cool
- AQUTE
(so is LA)