#26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
January 26, 2008 by clander
Often times if you ask a white person about where to travel, you will get a lot of responses. But if you ask them about New York, white people will go nuts. They love the city universally and all either live there, have lived there, will live there or want to live there.
White people like New York because it has artists, restaurants, a subway, history, diversity, plays, and other white people. It literally has everything white people need to thrive! The only thing it’s missing is nature, but Central Park is right there, and since you are walking all the time, you are outside!
If you are from New York, tell this to a white person. They will instantly be interested in you “what part of New York? and you are really from there?” When they inevitably tell you about your home town (“I know this great italian place…”) you should respond by saying “man, I thought place was only known to New Yorkers.”
Another secret fact about white people, if you are in group setting and the topic of New York City comes up, find the highest ranking white person and say “oh, are you from New York?”
To them, this means you are calling them cultured, cool, and urban. They will respond with something like “oh, well, I’ve spent a lot of time there,” or “I lived there for three years.” You will have instantly become more popular than all other people in the group.
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This is equally true of London. Another white mecca, and also a hugely diverse population. Hence the white love, no doubt.
So, would Queens be considered uncool? And how do white people feel about living in the Bronx?
Scared shitless at The Bronx still.
I am black and my parents are from haiti. NY rules! Its the ONLY place in the country where you can find literally everyone from every country in this world! I used to live in the bad part of brooklyn (flatbush) but me and my parents recently moved to LongIsland. Longisland is a very diverse place also. I still miss flatbush though!
I live in NYC. Loves it, especially Manhattan & Brooklyn (the parts where one isn’t getting robbed & doesn’t have to dodge bullets anyways…) However, I have to work my ass off to actually live in the heart of the city to enjoy such wonderful luxuries because they’re raising the price on rent T_T &500,000 just might get you a studio in some places. At the rate the city is going, native newyorkers won’t be able to afford to stay at home, and rich people are cool and everything, but what about the rest of the ppl who keep the city alive and kickin? And yea, its cool b/c of the ppl livin here; subtract them, and you’ve got just another city full of rich white ppl. Racism aside, its just an opinion.
i am born and raised in the bronx…i hate manhattan white people. it always seems like none of them work, yet they all have money. i don’t understand it. why do they come here?
i lived in Las Vegas for a little bit and i’d much rather live there even if hip white people consider that cliche.
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So rich people aren’t cool? or does that just mean that you’re jealous and not as successful. And yes, Brooklyn can be cool in a kind of “i’d never live there but its nice to visit for a day or so every few weeks kinda way”
viva Manhattan
“So rich people aren’t cool? or does that just mean that you’re jealous and not as successful. And yes, Brooklyn can be cool in a kind of “i’d never live there but its nice to visit for a day or so every few weeks kinda way””
Wow, you just boiled down a complex sociological dispute about gentrification and class conflicts into what amounts to “Stop hatin’.” And I see you’ve fully bought into the meritocracy myth, hook, line and sinker. Your’e a fucking moron.
Also, Brooklyn sucks.
Yes, yes. Fight amongst yourselves. Please give South Carolina its third shot at independence. Not that we’d do much different from the current system, but we aren’t fond of places like New York. I guess you could say we would prefer Central Park take the place of the concrete and steel, and the concrete and steel to take the place of Central Park. Y’all have too much goin’ on is basically what I’m tryin’ to say.
yikes, your comment is too sad to insult…
well then, you enjoy your watered-down suburban existence.
And whats wrong with brooklyn?? Living in the bk and lovin it, got the city close by but everything is not overpriced, good food, good shopping, diverse neighborhoods, chill people, mad small businesses so you always have a variety…brooklyn never gets boring…BK ALL THE WAY
Also, “i’m lovin’ it” is the catch phrase of _McDonald’s_.
Why do you like Burger King so much!?
awww you’re the best!
WOW. Stop right there.
I would have to disagree with the statement that white people like NYC because it has other white people. NYC is actually one of the most diverse cities in the country. I don’t think I’ve gone anywhere in the city and seen only white people. Plus, there are areas like Chinatown, Flushing, Harlem, Spanish Harlem, etc., etc.
Now if you’d said a suburb of Indiana or something, I might believe you.
Brooklyn is a cool place. I got priced out of my cool place in Greenpoint. (Rich) White people loved it soooo much.
(Rich) White people like moving to already cool neighborhoods, and making them uncool.
BROOKLYN needs its own number! White people love Brooklyn! Especially fresh graduates coming out of expensive liberal arts colleges or Ivy League universities. Living in Brooklyn for White people =trendy and/or cool.
My step-brother lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn about 3 subway stops over the bridge, and honestly that neighborhood seemed pretty damn “ethnic” to me, the out-of-town white guy trying not to look too out of place on the J-M-Z train.
He did have one overpriced-art-school attending hippie white girl roomate and a couple other assorted white people sharing his apt though, but this was definitely not the trust-fund fashionistas you find roaming the streets of Midtown or Upper East Side. More like staving artists and foreign nationals trying to find their way…
nah just cuz it was cheap as fuck to live here before all the “poor starving artist” hipsters living off mommy and daddys trust funds starting moving in and rent got raised.
YES, I agree. The Brooklyn thing bugs the hell out of me. Throw in Astoria and you’re all set. It’s so funny because white people love living somewhere that is associated with being ethnic/poor/dangerous/authentic, but almost exclusively live in the one or two parts of the borough that have a Starbucks.
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Ethnic/poor/dangerous is not necessarily true. Artsy people who eventually make an area trendy and cool, move to areas that are poor or maybe dangerous because it is a lot less expensive. The dangerous aspect may have some credibility but there has to be a proviso, and that is a time buffer between time/era of danger and upsurge in well-heeled white population. I’d say the time buffer is generally about 8-10 years between last point of worrisome crime statistics, and complete domination/exploitation/gentrification. It moves like a serpent from one area to another. We can reasonably trace this trend from Upper East/West Side of New York, to maybe Greenwich Village, to Lower East Side, to (and I may be a little off with this) Brooklyn Heights, to Chelsea, to Tribeca, to Midtown East, to Hell’s Kitchen, to Meatpacking District, to Murray Hill, to Hoboken/Jersey City, to Astoria. The key for any opportunist, such as myself, is to scout areas that may be roughly four or five generations behind the current, prevailing trendy neighborhood, once landlords have gotten it into their head that no one will pay the monthly rents they have been blindly holding out for.
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