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.
Stuff White People Like 
This is by far the best blog I’ve ever come across! I found it when trying to find something interesting for my Japanese students to read (I live in Japan!!). I am a vegetarian, I don’t watch the news, I don’t listen to mainstream music, I go to opera/classical performances 3 times a month, I eat organic food, I have a Reiki Master level attunement, and spend a lot of money on psionics, Ito Thermie and anything non-traditional. I have an undergraduate degree in Spanish. I have a doctorate in education, and so I guess that gives me permission to overanalyse things, and believe me, I do.
I have been to New York (my relatives live in Brooklyn). I do not like New York at all, and I believe that the city is grossly overrated and very dirty!!! Except for the MET Opera, the rest of it is caked in dirt. Gross!
By the way, I am not white (or American), but I was shocked at how accurately you’ve described my lifestyle, as those of some of my other friends.
Congratulations on a witty, insightful blog!!!
Oh so true, so true. I use the “I lived there for three years,” to fit in with white people. I am white, but I just want to move up.
I’m white, and I lived in NYC for 3 years…i try not to tell people because it’s overrated. Go Philly. Go Baltimore.
Tourists and Kansas wanna-bes go to NYC…well, I guess they are all white.
Forget it.
I’m the whitest white here! I lived in New York for 30 years except for the years I spent living in London, the Algarve, and the South of France. How white is that!
Plus in New York I lived in a large studio 30 steps from the Met. Then in a carriage house in the Village. Then in a town house on the upper east side. Then in a loft in Tribeca below anybody knew there was a Tribeca. Then, finally, in a town house in Brooklyn Heights!
And now I live in an even whiter city: Seattle.
Am I white or what?
We grew up in Connecticut, about 45 minutes from Manhattan. I was meeting my sister outside “The Garden” for a Paul McCartney concert (out-white that!). When she saw us, she exclaimed “Welcome to my city” with her arms outstretched. It had taken me a good 10 minutes to explain to her where the Garden was and how to get there. White people who don’t even know “the city” think they own it because they grew up nearby.
White people are ridiculous…to respond to “karma” above….saying nyc is overrated and philly and baltimore are better is going to be the new white thing….white people just need to stop being such snobs…like seriously stfu
Man, I love New York, I guess I’m that white. I’m Norwegian tho, so it’s more about experiencing such a large town.
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don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
No Anonymous, you’re not a racist. You’re an idiot.
New York is far from a “white city.” What are you people talking about?
I’m white and I was unimpressed with New York because it’s becoming too gentrified and too many white college kids. That was such a white person thing for me to say. Lame = me.
I heart NYC and I dont give a f****k who knows it!!
blow me mutherf*****fer!
I’ve lived in over a dozen cites, a handful of small towns, and couple of countries. I will one day live in Manhattan(it’s one of many on my list), but only for a year or two because it’s so expensive. I can’t wait!!
nyc really is white person paradise. i don’t like it really, but it is place to make money.
fuck baltimore and philly, give me the south where it is warm, cheap, and good.
Baltimore is pretty cheap. Not so much warm unless it’s summer and then it’s sweltering constantly.
Grew up in Brooklyn, bailed early. When I tell people, it can go two ways.
First way
Person: Where are you from?
Me: New York
Person: The city?
Me: Yeah, but not the good part. Brooklyn.
Person: I hear it’s very gentrified now.
Me: It wasn’t then.
Person: Why did you leave?
Me: I got sick of working two jobs to pay rent.
Person: Really? Such-and-such lives there and loves it.
Me: Yeah, well such-and-such probably moved there after getting a college degree and wasn’t earning a crap wage.
Person: Do you like the (Met/MOMA/insert other bullshit place)?
Me: Never went.
Person: How could you live in New York and not go to (bullshit place)?
Me: What of working two jobs to pay rent do you not get?
Person: Why are you so negative?
Second way
Person: Where are you from?
Me: New York.
Person: The city?
Me: Yes.
Person: Why did you leave?
Me: To get a different perspective.
Person: That’s great. I love New York.
Usually I opt for conversation 1. It’s easier.
booyah, born in New York!
Dad a Transit Cop!
My cousin ran for Governor!
Moved to FL after my dad died!
Great-grandmother and grandmother came through Ellis Island!
this is the funniest blog I’ve read in a long time!
I’m about as white as an Irish-Italian New Yorker can get!
I’m neither white nor american. I’ve lived in NY (manhattan) since 93. Reason why I moved there instead of anywhere in the states is because there is a diverse ethnic population…. meaning much less white people…. I think generally immigrants are attracted to NY because at least there’ll be a neighborhood that makes them feel at home. NY’s more akin to cities outside of the states….
No, #9, #8 is a troll. Just do your part and ignore him.
Adding Brooklyn to the list is pointless. Brooklyn is wannabe. All the indie-turds in Williamsburg talk about their crap little burg on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER. If you want to live in NYC, it’s Manhattan or GTF home. Brooklyn was and always will be almost-New York. But not quite.
Definitely. I notice that white people are overly impressed with themselves with the fact that they’re from New York. A white people/NY transplant thing to do is constantly talk about how they can’t get any good pizza. But Manhattan, and possible Portland is paradise for white people.
donna karen crime ridden rat city, big titty committee
I think that this may be one of those things that applies to northern white people and maybe some scenester southern lib kids.
this is so funny.. but yes, white people LOVEEEE Manhattan.. but lets be clear– different types of white people like different parts of Manhattan..
ie:
LES/Chelsea= Distressed Arsty or Musician Types
Midtown East/West= People w/money or the Yuppies whose parents pay their rent
Harlem/Morningside area= Columbia U students or those wanting to feel “cultured” til they realize they cant walk down Adam Clayton Powell Blvd past 7pm
Upper West/East Side= Stockbrokers or Lawyers that live in a loft or huge apt/condo overlooking Central Park
Washington Heights/Inwood= Italians or Jews that want to pay cheaper rent but still want to be close enough to the city
I live in NYC and I HATE the gentrification that’s going on (lol, i saw thats on the list too)
They go into our Bodegas and buy from the Black Muslim Street Vendors just for the “street cred” or to seem like they’re cultured.
Ugh.. and Im sooo pissed that Williamsburgh and other places in Brooklyn are getting taken over with all these American Yuppies..
I admit that in Brooklyn there are White people.. but theyre Ethnic Whites like Russian or Italian.. now all of these American dudes are moving in and DEMANDING that Starbucks get built on the corner so they can get their caffeine fix on the way to their job down on Water Street.
White people are always tryna take over other peoples land…
White people from Chicago HATE New York and everything about it.
I’m from Chicago and I hate New York more than any other place in the world
Just read this whole site in one sitting. Fantastic stuff. What makes it so hilarious for me is how they take it beyond just observing ridiculous “white” (or liberal or yuppie or whatever) trends and give examples of how to profit from them. I’m a sucker for that brand of subtle social warfare, which probably explains why I love Gossip Girl so much. For these reasons, this is my favorite entry. The part about finding the “highest ranking” white person in the room and asking if they’re from New York had me in stitches. It’s so true of “intellectuals” who are self-conscious about living in second-rate cities like Hartford, where I’m from. Also love the Montenegro bit in the Architecture post. Keep up the good work!
I’m a white (of Spanish descent, not “Anglo”) Cuban-American originally from Washington Heights in Manhattan, and I actually WELCOME the ever-growing amount of gentrification the neighborhood’s been seeing over the past decade! It’s a MUCH better alternative to the Dominican ghettofication the neighborhood saw in the ’70s and ’80s (the decades I lived there), which it’s still recovering from.
You know things are changing there when you see a Starbuck’s on 181st Street, and you get artists such as Bjork, The Black Crowes, and Iggy Pop playing at the old Lowe’s Theatre/Reverend Ike Church (now also known as The United Palace) on the corner of 175th Street and Broadway — right across from where I grew up!
What does this all mean? Cleaner streets and buildings, less noise (disgusting merengue music, mainly), less violent crime, less drugs, and less theft. 🙂 Not to mention less Caribbean half-breed guys in ultra-baggy pants saying “iight” and walking around with hair in corn-rows, or their female counterparts walking around with too much makeup, giant earrings, processed nappy hair spackled back, and pushing a baby stroller before the age of 18!! 🙂
Wow, Nefty…what a breath of fresh air you are…not.
Unless they’re from Boston. If you ask a white person from Boston if they’re from New York, they will be horribly insulted and hate you a little bit. Or just laugh at you. But probably both.
@ Pebbles
I’m from Boston and, I must say, I would be so horribly offended that I would engage this hypothetical fiend in fisticuffs. Not only would I hate this person (much more than a little bit) I might even get so mad that I gather a group of other white people from Boston and flip another white person’s car onto its side.
As a New Yorker born and bred, there’s nothing more annoying that some clown from out of town who decided it would be hip and happening to live in NYC. Throughout my adult life, I’ve been dragged to a number of parties filled with these wanna-be hipster swells who have recently moved here from some God forsaken white-bread East Bumfug jerkwater burgh located somewhere out in Yenemsvelt. I’ll get cornered into conversation with one of them, usually some goyishe moron with a soul patch and steak knife cut hair, while the girl who dragged me to this party in the first place is busy off somewhere cackling it up with some other yentas.
Inevitably, he’ll always turn the conversation to “The City”.
Hipster Moron Swell: So dude, how long have you been living in New York City?
Me: Uh, my whole life. Schmuck, ya t’ink I got dis accent from growin’ up in Keokuk?
Swell: Wow! You been here you’re whole life? You are sooooo lucky. I wish I grew up here. My home town was so repressed and conservative. Not like it is here.
Me: Yeah, sure. Careful what you wish for, son.
Swell: Where in the city are you from?
Me: Da Bronx.
Swell: Where’s that? In Brooklyn?
Me: No. It’s the Bronx, you idiot. You know where Yankee Stadium is?
Swell: You grew up near Yankee Stadium?
Me: (laughing) Gees, no. God forbid! When I was a kid and didn’t know any better I wanted to ’cause I’m a Yankee fan, and I thought it would be cool. I mean, I still go to ball-games there all da time, but hey. Y’know, it’s a great place to visit but…
Swell: (interrupting before I could go into how my grandfather had an aunt who lived in Concourse Village with a view of the Stadium from her window) I don’t like the Yankees. I like the Mets [or Cubs or Red Sux].
Bibbity-bop, bibbiity-boop, and so on. The conversation usually degenerates from there, and I think to myself “I the next girl I date is gonna one who DOESN’T drag me to these types of parties with these type of dooshbags.” It’s enough to make wanna move upstate or to the burbs like the rest of my family did.
PS. Boston Sux!
That post is so true. I grew up in New York and loved growing up there, but have lived many other place since then. And while at one time I enjoyed any discussion involving New York or any questions directed at me because I was from there I have gotten so sick of it. New York is fetishized like nowhere else in the world I can think of. Being from there is like being married to a prostitute. You have an intimate knowledge and attachment to something that everyone else is attracted to, and you can get it for free whenever you want but everyone else can get it if they pay for it. And though she’s good at what she does, ultimately she’s a whore and who wants a whore for a wife, especially one who supports herself by fucking 20-something transplants who desperately want to be famous and can’t wait to namedrop celebrities like BJ Novak and say they were at the trendiest spot in the LES last night. Karma’s right. Philly and Baltimore are cooler and way grittier. New York is a sterile, corporate echo of what it was in its chaotic heyday during the seventies and eighties, but I guess that’s how the Williamsburgers like it.
I was born and grew up in Brooklyn; lived there until I was 14. Moved out 2 weeks before the ’77 blackout where all the stores were looted and my neighborhood which was in decline (Flatbush) was trashed and never recovered. I moved to NH (culture shock!) and thought the locals were such boobs and I was so cool because I was from NY, but I see now they were the cooler ones and I was the douchebag.
Fast forward, and I now live in NJ (the 5th Circle of Hell, to hipster/yuppified/”cultured” New Yorkers like the one Bronx Boy described – even worse than Queens). You mention you live in NJ to a NY hipster, especially a poseur transplant, and you become socially radioactive (unless you live in Hoboken, and even then you’re still a second-class citizen). That very thing happened to me — I was at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (pretty good ice cream if you’re in the neighborhood) a few years ago and struck up a conversation with a couple of girls in line in front of me. They were from Ohio and talking about their fab condo/apartment in the LES. The minute I said I lived in NJ I ceased to exist. I thought it was funny because I was more NY than they would ever be.
OT — Do not interpret this as a defense of NJ. NJ used to be nice; it’s trashed now (at least northern NJ) and is starting to deserve its reputation. Some hipsters/yups fled NY after 9/11 and established beachheads here (Montclair, Westfield – white people love Victorian houses, and those towns are chock full). Almost everyone I know is fleeing the state, usually to Charlotte or Atlanta.
Manhattan is way overrated. But if you are 18 to 40 and single are you really going to find interesting neighbors and friends in oh I don’t know Forest Hills for example? There are good reasons why people pay $3000 for a studio. When you decide to buy something, you are paying what it is worth.
Another post aimed only at American white people. You could not pay me to live in New York.
this blog is a riot! but I should point out that among the people who follow all these habits in this blog, there’s a significant segment that go for the uber-hip smaller towns like Ashland, OR and Charlottesville, VA. There you’ll find folks who do all the things this blog describes, and, of course, they’re all convinced of their thorough uniqueness. Breakfast places, bicycles, ironic t-shirts, condescending attitude toward the Midwest/Red States, it’s all there, PLUS the self-congratulation they feel for shunning the ‘big city’
great job – keep up the fine work!
I live in one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in Brooklyn (and thus, in the world)…in an apartment with 3 white people. Huzzah.
I am a person of color from California who recently moved to NYC, thinking it would be “diverse”. Whoa. Way wrong. All the pretentious white people here make me want to go home.
P.S. you should add “accupuncture” and “hating parents” to your list.
White people also like San Francisco
I live in upstate NY…I am white…and I would never want to live in the city! Its too expensive…too crowded…and full of pretenious white people….
At least up here you can spend your days outside….in nature…lol
I’ll take my “hick” town any ol’ day of the week… 🙂
The one particular group of white people who hate New York (and New Yorkers) are Californians. LA, SF, doesn’t matter, we all hate New York. The weather is awful and the people are mean. Of course, the worst thing about New Yorkers is that they are all obsessed with their city and think it’s the greatest place on earth.
PS. Another thing that white people like are flavored hard alcohols (think Skyy Orange vodka or Malibu rum)
New York City is only 45% white, but apparently we NY Times readers want to think it’s more than that.
I recently moved here from Nottingham (NOT London, since that’s where everyone assumes – London’s way too cool for me:)
I moved here to marry my boyfriend who is from NJ but living in the city. Never particularly wanted to move here for the place, but came here for him. Like it OK now that I’m here, but we are looking at moving to NJ once our lease is up as too expensive and don’t feel the need to stay here. I guess my husband understands the reaction of “WHY??? Why would you leave Manhattan?” as he grew up somewhat in the area, but I just did not get it for the longest time. I mean I still don’t, but I now understand that it’s usually a snobby reflex to someone wanting to get out of the city. I mean god forbid not smelling pee everytime you walk out the door and having people in your way no matter where you go. I always breathe a sigh of relief when we go to Jersey to visit his parents – so much quieter and cleaner.
Saying this though, I haven’t met too many pretentious people here, but that could be because we mostly hang out with husband’s friends whom he grew up with/went to school with.
I also want to point out that we totally have the same social stereotype in the UK, but it is not divided by race. If you spend your money on sushi and a new Iphone, you fall under this category of ridiculousness, white or not!
PS – I’d really like to live by the water and I LOVE correcting people’s grammar.
I live in NY and, for the most part, love it. What I don’t love, however, is Manhattan-centrism. I do live in Manhattan, but think it is mostly overrated and lacks value. My favorite neighborhoods on the island are far downtown (I live on the UES), but they will never be in my price range. So this white girl is moving to the Bronx! While there are many things I don’t like about the borough (litter especially), the neighborhood I’ll probably settle into will be just fine for my purposes. I’d much rather live there than Williamsburg, which is very likely the whitest neighborhood in all of NY.
As for the people who say “I’m from (Boston, Chicago, insert name of city smaller than NY here) and therefore hate NY”, well that’s just mindless. Can’t you form an opinion on your own, rather than hating NY simply because you’re from somewhere else? I sense a bit of an inferiority complex. Also, how many people who make these ignorant statements (I’m looking at you too Canadian chick) have ever even been here? I grew up in northern rural Canada and find NYers to be about the friendliest and most cooperative people I’ve ever lived around (not having cars helps with this). The thing is, if you come here behaving all aggressively because you assume NYers are rude, chances are you will be treated rudely. And you deserve it!
I really enjoy this entire blog! So funny! And this point about New York is so true. I think the same might be said for D.C. these days, too, as most people I know (young people) are friggin’ obsessed with D.C. Perhaps a future blog entry might be about how white people love D.C.?
Its the Midwestern hipsters that give NYers a bad rap. Real NYers are actually very friendly people. Its the Midwestern transplants that lay on their typically bad midwestern attitudes, then tell people that they’re “from NY” that the whole city gets a bad rap.
I have actually read a couple of sites where people from Chicago or Boston say how much they hate New Yorkers…
I, who am from Brooklyn, find this hilarious.
I think there is some kind of self hatred from these people or penis envy when they talk about us.
I never met a New Yorker who hated people from either of those 2 places. I never met a NYer who even cared enough to think about that hatred… I have better things to do than hate a fellow city. I waste my time hating the French (joking)
Get a life…
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Face it.. you’re all either racist or filled with hatred and nothing more. Don’t like NYC? Then leave.. no one is stopping you. It has NOTHING to do with white people, or whatever PC term you want to use for the rest of the diverse population here (AA/black, Hispanic/Latino, etc.) . You think NYC = Manhattan? Please grow up and appreciate the history and variety of the other four boroughs (and please leave as well because you’re probably from some other place and moved here because you only think it was the cool thing to do).
Stop hiding behind your screennames, keyboards and monitors and get out in the real world and experience something. Bitterness only gets you so far in life… Act like this in a crowded room and I wouldn’t be surprised if you were pummeled.
People from New York are retarded. The posts from the idiots NYers on this site further corroborate this notion. No wonder people from Chicago and Boston hate them…they’re arrogant and have obnoxious accents. And sorry Manhattan people…it ain’t “penis envy” of your city…not sure if you heard, but New York is a smelly dump of a city that happens to have a plethora of people. Talk about the world’s largest idiot fest. And yes…by the way…Chicago and Boston are both significantly better cities. End of story.
Re: Brett
“People from New York are retarded.”
Yup, all eight million (plus) of us are retarded! At least many of us can spell and process complex thoughts.
Chicago and Boston are both great cities. However, given their significantly smaller sizes, it’s pretty difficult to compare them to NY. Like the person from Brooklyn said, I’ve never met a NYer who talks about how much they “hate” (or even dislike) Chicago or Boston. What’s the point in that? So silly, really.
#30 & # 31
Hilarious, and true. Newbury st., anyone?
I’m a South Asian immigrant and I’ve been living here since I was 14. Spent most of that time on the Upper East Side of Manhattan before moving to Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. I don’t get all these people who say that NYC is mostly white. Maybe if they left Manhattan once in a while they’d see some diversity. Hell, when I lived on the Upper East Side (which was and is a mostly white neighborhood) it was diverse enough. There was a mosque next to my building and Spanish Harlem was right there. If you explored a little and left your safety net you’d see the real New York, not the bright and shiny tourism shit. Times Square is probably my most disliked place in Manhattan and a lot of New Yorkers would agree.
In the building where I live now there are no white people and I’ve only seen a few on my street or in the neighborhood. It’s a totally different experience and it’s only a twenty minute subway ride from the city. I still hang out in Manhattan because most of my friends live there and have noted the increasing gentrification taking place. You can’t stop it.
Warts and all, despite it’s many imperfections, I love this city. The only reason I would leave would be rising prices which is likely to happen but I wouldn’t enjoy it at all.
Once again this is the upper class American whites. Go to the South the South West the MidWest the Pacific Northwest and you will find its not so true. Especially among the poorer and middle class.
brilliant. truly. was terrified to recognise so much of myself in almost every one of these posts! And I’m not even North American! (am white though). Crazy how you’ve nailed it! Keep them coming, it keeps me honest!
Re: #54 “Times Square is probably my most disliked place in Manhattan and a lot of New Yorkers would agree.”
Agreed. Then again, I agree with pretty much everything else this poster said.
And speaking of gentrification, I had an interesting experience today. I live in Manhattan, but spent last night at my BF’s place in the Bronx. Since I also work in the Bronx, I took the bus to work. I saw two bona fide hipsters (one white, one Asian) on my way in this morning. It is happening EVERYWHERE!
I moved to “the city” for college, graduated, and moved to Brooklyn where the rent in cheaper.
Dialogue from a trip to Portland, OR last summer:
Random Dude: “You’re from New York? The problem with New York is that the people there always think it’s better than everywhere else.”
Me: “That’s because it is.”
*laugher*
Random Dude: “Spoken like a true New Yorker.”
As far as I see it, no one really ever makes a point to say how much better New York is, until they have to defend it. Our city will kick your city’s ass.
Feel free to now tear me a new one.
PS- I’ve lived in Boston.
They also like Seattle, Portland, OR, and San Francisco. The really trendy white people love Washington, DC.
I think that the “right kind of white people” (i.e. not the wrong kind) that you tend to write about don’t like manhattan because it takes too long to get anywhere and it’s dirty and expensive. However, the “right kind” of white people, the kind who like ironic t-shirts and organic food, prefer Brooklyn DEFINITELY! The only white people who like manhattan are from the real housewives of NYC, and their kids. i mean, right? your demographic IS williamsburg, and weird glasses, and bad perfume, and stupid hair.
I’m a white guy that lived in NYC for five years. I designed security systems for museums while I was there, so the whole “museum” conversation is lost on me. I was there for MoMA’s groundbreaking and worked there right up through the opening. I worked on the Met’s new Greek and Roman wing and at the Frick. I can honestly say that, while proud of those projects, I can’t go into them and appreciate the art. I’ve lived with them for too long.
I just went back after a two year hiatus and I can say that the best thing about it now is my friends, many of whom are leaving. Manhattan is really for one type of person now- young, wealthy, and single. Even my favorite place, Greenpoint, is getting bullied into being something it wasn’t before. I still like going, but I could not live there anymore. As I grow older, I’m just not willing to put up with as much as I was. A $4,000 rent is not something I would pay now, especially since my friends are moving to where I am and we can have just as much fun without having to worry about long subway rides home and how to split the cab fare. Native New Yorkers are some of the nicest people in the country- but I sense their priorities are changing as well.
Pretty soon, movie stars will be the only inhabitants and I say let them. Then we can call them “white dwarf’s” as there will be nobody around to serve them.
This website is freakin’ hilarious! Mainly because so much of it is true! Love it! (Although, I have to admit it is a bit unsettling how many of the posts apply to me because I’m not actually white!)
I’m a born and bred New Yorker and I find it particularly funny when white people who have just started living there try to tell me where the real Ray’s pizza is or how cool “this nice little Thai place” in Park Slope is. (And we all know the one!) Stop trying to get street/indie cred or being snobbish about that cred (Is that even possible?)! Just as amusing are when white guys try to tell me how great they are at using chopsticks and it looks like that scene from “The Joy Luck Club” where the guy can’t pick up his food, let alone hold on to it long enough to reach his mouth. I’m Asian, so any white person trying to tell me how to marinate their tofu and chicken dish in mirin and finding the right kind of sake to go with it is more than enough to bring me to tears on the inside. (I would never laugh at them in front of them – it’s too cruel.) I don’t care if you can use chopsticks – I would never ask (and, these days, I automatically assume you can use them since Asian cuisine is everywhere). There is no need to brag about how great you are at using them. I don’t say how good I am with a fork and knife, so shut it. The only time where your ability to use chopsticks or other utensils would impress me or anyone else is if there were a contest to pick up the most food or the oddest-shaped toy in whatever amount of time. (And I’ve only seen that at street fairs.)
Equally entertaining is if I’m away from NYC and white people like to comment on how cool they think a certain neighborhood in NYC is and how they’ve lived there for 2-3 years. They go on about how uncool other places in the city are but they’ll “support” those uncool places by catching a play (BAM anyone?) or going to an 80s night at someone’s overpriced factory-turned-loft in Williamsburg or “East Williamsburg,” as the case may be. When they find out I’m from NY and have lived in Brooklyn practically my whole life, things get a little quieter and I will have killed the conversation to a certain extent because they are no longer cool.
That said, I love New York even though it’s dirtier than it should be. I like white people and I have white friends, but I also have friends who are not white (a product of living in the city my whole life! Yeah!) I was an arts major in college (how white is that?!) and I like BAM. (I went to high school a few blocks from there.) I like that some neighborhoods are becoming safer because of the gentrification but I hate when those same people living there complain about how high the rent is. It’s their own fault. It also sucks for everyone else because rent all over the city has risen disproportionate to people’s salaries. And I find it annoying that they’ll talk about how cool it is to live there when, really, we all know they share an apartment because they want to continue the college lifestyle, can’t afford elsewhere, or they’re too white to walk down the street.
Anyone who thinks New York is “too white” needs to have their head examined and get out of “the city”/tourist spots and the gentrified parts more. Out of 8 million people, more than half of them aren’t white. It isn’t an immigrant city for no reason. Anyone who “hates” NYC is an idiot. I don’t hate your city for no reason. Well, I might because of people like you. 🙂
As a rather white Bostonian, I would have to say I would be incredibly insulted if someone thought I was from New York. I just find it to be the most overrated place. I currently live in abroad, and I brought some friends to the States with me last summer. They were SO excited to see NYC, and all of their other friends were completely jealous… until we got there. We had fun, we got to take in the good points of the city, but they were surprised at how dirty and disappointing it was.
I think that only people from New York state, New Jersey and the Midwest love NYC. And for most of the people from the Midwest, its because they’ve never been there…
lots of white folks from Long Island, NJ, and Westchester pretend they’re from the City. Utterly ridiculous.
Oh, and Boston is a cute little town to visit in the fall. But it’s not a real city in any sense. In fact, it generally just sucks.
First of all, Amen Bronx bound. You pretty much said it.
Second, I can’t stand this hostility towards New York. Seriously. Can someone tell me exactly what is overrated about New York? Now ok, I will say it’s not for everyone and that’s fine. Los Angeles, for example, is not for me. But why the seething hatred? It’s frankly beyond me. I’m perfectly comfortable admitting that I really like Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. But New York is in my blood–my family has lived here since they got off the boat from Italy four generations ago.
A lot of people make very sweeping generalizations about New York. The actual blog post is accurate because it reflects white people’s perception of New York but doesn’t actually accuse New York of being a ‘white’ town. Or, more specifically, Manhattan and Brooklyn. That’s because it’s not. I teach high school in Harlem and in a school of 500 kids, two are white. Two. I’m not exaggerating. I live in Inwood, and while it’s definitely getting gentrified, white people are still the minority. And out where I’m from in Queens, half the signs are in Korean–plus Queens is the most ethnically diverse county in the world.
I’m not saying NY is a perfect town–rents are way too high, and there are a whole lot of pretentious people, but real New Yorkers are genuine and honest–and kind. Not exactly patient, and not with stupid people, but if you find yourself thinking all New Yorkers rude, I challenge you to a social experiment. The next time you’re in New York, stand on a street corner with a map (out of the path of traffic or it won’t work because you’ll be in people’s way and that irritates the crap out of New Yorkers) or ponder the map in a subway car or ask someone next to you whether the train is running local or express. I guarantee that you’ll get New Yorkers trying to help you left, right, and center, and even engaging in friendly debate over which way is best.
To hell with all y’all. I’m from Oklahoma and it’s just fine here. I like NYC a lot. I don’t like people from LA who move to Oklahoma (because they couldn’t make it out there) and tell Oklahomans how much they and their state suck. The only thing I really don’t like right now about my state is its complete lack of a Jewish population, for…well…religious reasons.
I fucking hate San Francisco. Fuck it up the ass.
If I had to choose of the Californias, I would stay with the south (even with what I said about LA and all). Way better weather and cooler people.
And for other cities…
I LOVE Vancouver. Now THAT’s a city. I still love NYC but man…Vancouver’s bad ass and I highly recommend it to those who haven’t seen it.
You know what city I think is also overrated? Florence. Ugh. The whole of Tuscany is drab and brown. I can’t believe people would spend their time there instead of Rome when planning an Italian vacation. But that’s just my view.
DAMNIT I HATE YUPPIES AND HIPSTERS!
I enjoy the NYC, but Philly is my love. It’s super relaxed and chill.
You haven’t truly experienced diversity as a white person until your teenaged Pakistani neighbor, who for no particular reason, calls you a f*ing gringo!
Oh yeah.
I think you should also cover San Francisco, it is the West Coast capital of the white people satirized in the site. In my mind there is not a more self-selecting big city in America. Perhaps shout out to Silverlake/Los Feliz/Echo Park too.
Also, thinking of San Francisco makes me think of Dim Sum brinch, so I will also suggest ethnic food, but the more exotic the better. Thai? Meh. Peruvian? Hell yes!
Amanda, I live in Philly and I like it here too. It;s one of the few places on the East Coast that a working person can actually buy a house and on an average salary — yeah, it will probably be a rowhouse, but hey, it’s a roof over your head. And don’t forget the arts and booming restaurant scenes.
I’ve been to NYC many times and always get bad vibes there, and also feel tired and drained when I come home. It’s just not for me.
We get alot of bad press but with our new mayor I believe the city is coming back — BIG TIME!
People from Boston could not care less about New York City. As has been said, New York City is the most overrated place on Earth.
Ever since rejects that could not make it in Boston populated New York City, New Yorkers have had an inferiority complex. This is manifested in their need to build hundreds of obnoxiously high skyscrapers to compensate for their other deficiencies, their embracing of modern art, modern architecture, and other self-deluded New York created jokes that they attempt to pass off as culture, their shameless flaunting of wealth, and their tendencies to act in the most arrogant and classless matter possible. These are just a few symptoms of a city of perpetually insecure social climbers, personified by shows such as “The Real Housewives of New York City.”
New York City gets all the press and all the celebrities and Bostonians prefer it that way. We will continue our century-old traditions of understatement, timelessness and common sense. You can keep your meretricious parvenus.
If people from that little city hate NY so much why do they keep talking about it? GCabot mentions it 7 times!
Anyway, fuck NY. I grew up there, taught there and got priced into worse and worse neighborhoods where I became the gentrifying “pioneer” that I used to throw copies of the Learning Annex at when I was 13.
I am a white girl, and I do admittedly fit most of the “white girl” stereotypes… but I fucking HATE New York. I hate the state, I hate the city, I want nothing to do with it. I was born in the state, but I never mention it to friends. I’m not proud of it. My experiences in NY have been miserable. The state is boring and frankly kind of ugly. The city makes me feel like I’m trapped in a cage. And I’ve been to other cities that were just as impressive, if not more.
Life below the Mason-Dixon line has treated me infinitely better. I do not think more highly of people from NYC. In fact, having lived in New York (OMG SHE FITS THE STEREOTYPE), I kind of think LESS of people from New York. I’m not saying I hate people because they’re from NY, but I do go, “Oh God, I hope this doesn’t mean you’re going to be a pretentious, self-righteous douche.”
(I’m a country girl at heart, what can I say? But if I have to pick a city… I spent my formative years close to Baltimore and D.C. Combined, they kept me entertained. There are other cities throughout the country that have held my interest much more than NYC.)
This is absolutely true. Just last night a white person asked me where I was from and I said, “New York”
he said, “but where”
I said, “Manhattan”
he gave me a knowing smile and said, “but where”
I said “Flatiron”
I think he got an instant erection and his ass was from Weston, CT.
My immigrant friend just went to New York recently and she was all excited about going. When she came back her thrill was gone. She kept complaining about how dirty it was. Not too thrill about going there again she told me.
nyc is cool as hell…. you got a neighborhood for every kind of ethnicity there is… spanish harlem, jamaica queens, corona (colombians mostly and asians), bensonhurst (italian russian jewish) so on and so forth…….. you could find anything you want to find at almost anytime of day or night……. the clubs and bars close at 4 AM and they party hard!… many fashion trends come from NY. some of the best poetry, plays, comedy shows, authentic jazz spots, restaurants,PIZZA lol, the list goes on and on are right in new york city. so idk how u could hate it…. i mean im from jersey originally brooklyn (but only lived there til i was 7) and and im half white half colombian but i love it every time I’m in the city but then again its different from living there but its always something to see or do in NY. and when i say I’m from jersey i say it proud as hell and if u dont respect that, then i dont know what to tell ya.
P.S. if u want grit cross the bridge or tunnel and go into newark nj or just stay in new york and walk around any of the MANY projects late at night with an attitude by yourself. theres projects in any boro too, so dont be stupid and talk about GRIT like its something to be glamorized.
boston is good for clam chouder
phillys good good for cheese steaks
baltimore is good for crab cakes
chicago got their own style pizza and sausages
NEW YORK has everthing else!
Re: GCabot (#72):
“Ever since rejects that could not make it in Boston populated New York City, New Yorkers have had an inferiority complex. ”
Um, what?! Why would anyone who can’t make it in Boston think that they’re going to thrive in NY? I’m not putting down your city. Now that I think about it, has a single NYer even done that in this thread? Anyway, my point is that NY is much more expensive and considerably more competitive. Also, as it’s not a car culture (esp. in Manhattan), doing everyday things such as purchasing groceries or doing laundry are more difficult. Not saying that’s a good or bad thing, just stating the facts.
And if you could not care less about NY, then why did you bother with your bitter-sounding post? Also, it is rather foolish of you to proclaim that you know what’s on the mind of all Bostonians. Talk about arrogant!
Finally, your deluded post suggests that all you know of NY is Manhattan, and even that “knowledge” comes across as being very limited. There are five boroughs that comprise this city. Before you make such sweeping generalizations about NY, perhaps you should actually know a little something about the city.
I hate everything about New York, the crowds, the smell, the noise, the everything…and I am white. NEW YORK SUCKS!!!!
I think the title is my favorite part. I’ve noticed a trend with a large part of my friends … there was a time when all of us lived in close proximity to each other in Queens and for years everyone was like “wow … isn’t it awesome living here in Queens and not being with all the drones in Manhattan???” Then, as soon as every single one of them got married, they moved to Manhattan and completely blew off Queens (one even went so far to exclaim “man, I don’t cross the bridges anymore!” on an invite to his formerly favorite bar in Queens.) Then, after living in Manhattan for a couple of years, they all move to Brooklyn, especially to have kids. It’s like the snooty white hipster version of the outer suburbs.
manhattan is so cliche it’s disgusting.
How true! All my high ranking white friends moved to Brooklyn this past year! (even my token black friend) I’m left in Chicago all alone. Read the post about Wrigley Field. Wow, you’ve really done your research. “I’m gonna have to move to Canada…” wink…
i grew up in brooklyn and hate that all these hipster mid-west scrubs are moving to here. yah its dirty and has the best food in the world. that doesn’t mean you can just move here and claim you are from brooklyn now cause you moved to williamsburg 3 months ago. using daddy’s trust fund to pay the rent and be artsy isn’t very becoming either.
“Real” New Yorkers are the ones who felt drawn here from elsewhere, be that Ohio or Vietnam.
Natives are, often, the same as so many of the narrow-minded, parochial, don’t-know-what-goes-on-outside-my-town-and-don’t-give-a-shit idiot that you find in any small town in the US. Urban rednecks. They know nothing else. They can’t appreciate NYC.
I laugh when I hear some ignorant, hick (yes, hick) native New Yorker get all superior. Like they had any control over where they were born. Unlike someone who moved here, often against great odds (yes not everyone who moved here has daddy’s backing, believe ot or not). If these awesome natives only knew what their city was really about. But sadly, they don’t, and never will, because for them it exists in a vacuum.
But whatever, I’ll let them have it. Cause it’s all they have.
I just wanted to add that this doesn’t work if the white people you’re talking to are from Boston.
I’m Jewish, born and bred in NY and other than trips to FL, I don’t see the need to travel to other US cities much. That’s just the way we are. We are far more “New York” than you.
That’s the first time I’ve been called a “hick” though. Interesting viewpoint.
NYC used to be heads and shoulder above everywhere else……but the internet and the access to information/culture/music etc. from it has leveled the playing field totally.
Why live in NY anymore anyway? There a good restaurants almost everywhere in the US these days.
god damn I hate nyc, I hate the place, the people and anything else. Being from south jersey these savages migrate south in a locust-like plague every year lasting from memorial day to labor day. The statue of liberty and elis island are both in new jersey’s water and we power them, however nyc gets the revenue. Their garbage and sludge from the harbors gets dumped off our waters. After nyc spilled over into jersey mostly its unsightly industy was situated right next to newark airport, which gives the entire state a bad reputation for being dirty. All of the douche bags up there do not help either. In closing, quoting Tom
Tucker on Family Guy, “I think I speak for everyone when I say that everyone from new york should go fornicate themselves with an iron stick”
Re: #86
How exactly were #84’s comments anti-Semitic? I think you’re looking for a fight where one doesn’t exist, no?
You did a really wonderful job of illustrating his/her point that ignorance takes on many forms by stating that you don’t feel the need to know what goes on outside your immediate surroundings. Well done.
I’m white. I’ve been to New York. I never want to go back to that hellhole.
White people especially those from the sticks love NYC because they think their boring lives will be transformed into an episode of Sex in the City, Friends, Seinfeld or a Woody Allen film. It’s a cool town but I wasn’t desperate to move there when I lived in Chicago, another great city.
This blog is so creepy! My family is pure Chinese but amazingly, according to your blog, we should be Caucasian. Its really odd how we love coffee, like dinner parties, we live in NYC, we have Netflix, we LOVE sushi and fusion, I speak 3 languages, my mother speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese and English, my father speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, a few country Chinese dialects, English and Shanghainess. We eat mostly organic food, that comes from the farmer markets in the city, we love Trader Joes and I have a small obsession with Apple Ipods and iMacs.
#25 and #26 are correct. If you are from anywhere in the Greater Chicagoland Metropolitan Area (even scenester northside), you HATE NYC. It’s a fact. But, loving big cities, whether it be SF, NYC, Boston, D.C. or Chicago, is definetely a white person thing. Except L.A. No one can like LA. Ask any white person, especially from California. They will tell you that they “hate LA.” Even if they live there.
I love east coast citys, and chicago (im only 3 hours from chi town) however i couldent be there for more then a week, i love to be outside, and to have tons of room to do stuff, on stuff that i own not rent. im very white =P
#93 Chicagoans don’t “hate” NYC. That’s ridiculous. Most yuppie Chicagoans know someone who lives there and they love going there to party. The rest of Chicagoland is basically living life, raising kids, etc. and not dwelling on NY.
NYC has some strong points over other places like the many choices for theater and entertainment, a touch of ethnic people, neighborhoods and food available that blended somewhat harmoniously and created this international mixture. NYC is about having an open mind, a vision of liberty and the million possibilities in front of you. NYC is the best possible place for the United Nations to be based because of it’s strong international atmosphere.
When in NYC, you have to appreciate what is offered and some people can’t do that.
@Bronx bound. Bronx is an interesting place, it is not as bad as some make it seem but not everyone could live there. Best of success!
Asian people are OBSESSED with NYC/BK and just about every “White” thing but then try to prented they aren’t, especially hipster scenes.
what’s bad about being “white” in a country founded by super white people? I’m native american so everyone should get out of my country and top stop trying to turn it into the piece of crap country from which you came! booo. Go sponge off someone else.
So I guess I can see why white people love NYC, (opera, art, 5 restaurants per block, NYU)… but NYC is FAR from being the whitest city… roughtly 65% of the population is not white. The NYC I grew up and love is far from white, it has people from all walks of life, it has wonderful neighborhoods outside of Manhattan, it has merengue, bachata and salsa, it has the BQE, it has Coney Island, it has grays papaya, it has chinese street cakes, it has main street flushing, it has a subway that takes you everywhere… love those neighborhoods where if you see a white person its because they are lost, they are looking for authentic ethnic food.
So its sad NYC’ reputation is being kidnapped by the yuppies and/or people who came from somewhere else (generally Jersey and LI), lived in nyc a handfull of years and call themselves NYers … perfect example of their view Once upon a time in NYC’s comment about NY having “a touch of ethnic people” … really? a touch? obviously you did not get out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, the Village, Upper East Side, Upper Westside…
By the way most New Yorkers are not rude, we just like to mind our own business…. (there is rude people everywhere, even in Omaha)
Shhhh…but the best kept White-People-Friendly city on the planet…is Arlington, Virginia, a stones throw across the Potomac from our Imperial Capital. Why is Arlington soooo very White-Person-Friendly? (that’s “WPF” for us “crackers in the know” (that’s “CIK”)…
1. Its got that perfect racial mix we CIK’s love- 85% white, with a nice sprinkling of minorities, but not too many to scare us;
2. Its median per-capita income is about $72,000 per year, which keeps the neighborhoods nice, and “low-income-free” (that’s “LIF” for short);
3. It has extraoridinarily high taxes, which means that while your property tax bill may top $12,000 per year, your kids can attend the public schools (with Imported Minorities!) and still have a shot at an Ivy;
4. Washington National Airport is just four subway stops away, so NYC, its shops and attractions, are just quick Delta Shuttle away!
5. It’s the most educated county in the country, with a amazing 56% of residents in possession of a graduate degree;
6. Yummy restaurants and trendy coffee shops galore!
NYC is not the Truly Whitest City in Amerika- com’on down to Arlington, Viriginia and experience Upper-Middle-Class-Liberal-White-Smugdom at its finest!
@ #89:
#84 is not an anti-semite but he/she is a little bit of a classist, he/she expresses very clearly the views of many of the transplants who think they deserve and/or know NYC way better than the natives because they go the the MOMA(extra points for going to PS1), go to brunch at Clinton Baking Co, or watch movies at the BAM.
The beauty of NYC is that both “yuppies” “hicks” “ethnic peoples” “ghetto people” “natives,” even those from Staten Island alike can enjoy it and on the cheap… there is something for everyone to love.
White people rock!
I agree. Saying something stupid like, “New York is so over-rated, go to Philly! Go to Baltimore!” Is definitely the new white thing to say.
Fuck NYC, CHICAGO all the way
“Fuck NYC, CHICAGO all the way”
These types of comments are hilarious. Could you be any more insecure? And why? Chicago is great enough on its own that it doesn’t require putting down other places to boost its image. I’ll say it again, has anyone who lives in NY made a statement like this about any other city in this thread yet? Inferiority complexes make for great humor.
@#96: Thanks for the good wishes. I’ve worked in the Bronx for three years, so I’m used to being the only white person around 😉 I never have any real problems, just occasional staring and comments on my looks, mostly from Hispanic men (I’m a blonde!). Certainly nothing I can’t handle.
@#101: I agree that that poster (#84) made some ridiculous assertions, but to call him/her an anti-Semite was a really BIG stretch! That other guy was just looking for a “fight”, I think, which is really lame.
Huh. Don’t you know that L.A. is more hip these days? I came to New York for the man I love and to go to school. It’s a retched place to live. I don’t think of it as a “white” place, though, but I’m from Wyoming, where everyone is white.
I wonder if I get a dual social boost from having a period of arty New York living, and also the toughness factor of being born a rattlesnake girl. It seems that way, but maybe they’re just afraid I will kick their uncultured asses.
i think this site would be more accurately called, stuffyounguppermiddleclasswhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com
am from Baltimore so naturally i much prefer here then NYC… we’ve got National Bohemian down here
To Hell with New York City! What’s so good or cool about an over crowded, dirty, expensive, noisy, paved over, crime-ridden dystopia?
Every time I visit NYC I think I have lost my mind for going there in the first place.
And every time I hear people talking about how great New York City is I think that either they are sodding crazy or they don’t know any better.
On a recent business trip there I saw a lot of people walking the streets in the dead of night wearing sunglasses!
If you like it, fine. I’ve had my say.
#106 I came to New York for the man I love and to go to school. It’s a retched place to live. I don’t think of it as a “white” place, though, but I’m from Wyoming, where everyone is white.
Amen. NYC is a Third World cesspool over most of it. Even in Manhattan these days Whites on the sidewalks are a minority. It really contrasts to those old photos of VE Day etc.
People just want to be around Whites, glom onto White success and acknowledge that White civilization is the best They vote with their feet.
The only White city left in the world is Moscow, where you can see White people everywhere, without being bombarded with multi-cult non-whites and all the people who you can even pinpoint what the hell they are, or where their ancestors’ culture is from.
Even Berlin, Germany is non-white. It’s sick. Whites deserve to live in peace, but the non-whites will never let us. 😦
Yeah, and that goes for you “asians” that think they are exactly like this “White site”. You aren’t White, and you do carry a non-White footprint no matter how well you think you fit in.
to #101,
Did I ever mention that I go to MOMA, Clinton Baking Co. (uh, sorry, but what’s that?) or BAM? Classist? Did I mention anyting at all about money? It seems you are reading an awful lot into my statement.
Being a New Yorker has less to do with where you “brunch” or what museums you go to. It’s about having an open, curious, accepting MIND.
Guess it was asking too much for me to expect you to be able to momentarily free yourself up from your yuppie/hipster-bashing mindset.
And Yes, #86 did prove my point nicely. Anti-Semitic? ha!
Hick.
@ #110: I sure hope you don’t live here, you white supremacist. That has got to be one of the most ridiculous and ignorant posts I’ve ever read.
And BTW, EVERYONE deserves to live in peace, NOT just white people. Despite the hype about NYC being “crime-ridden” (e.g. Mark, #109), it really isn’t true (read a little about national crime statistics if you don’t believe me). Thus, most of us who reside here are fortunate enough to live in peace.
I grew up in Long Island, and exactly right on the border of Queens…so I come from a conflicting background. While not technically “The City”, i could walk 5 minutes and be in Queens. This gives me and those from my area a sense of being more aligned with NYC than Long Island (which I do have pride for too).
However, about the people from other cities hating on NY? It’s definitely true that you never see a native NY’er talking trash about Boston/Chicago/SF or anywhere else (unless it’s LA, our rivals). Fact is, we really are friendly and most of us LOVE it when we get to visit those cities.
Also, Google recently did a tally of the most viewed websites in certain locations, and Boston had more hits for “New York Yankees” than anywhere in NY. Seems they pay more attention to us than we do them?
from what i’ve seen and heard. brooklyn is like becoming the mecca for 30 something hipsters. i guess there are a lot of bookstores and coffee shops and records stores that actually sell records and it draws them in like moths to a flame.
I have to be the whitest person on here, grew up on cape cod, family came over on the mayflower in 1620. No one besides me has ever moved out of plymouth or the cape. Well here i am in NYC for school and i can say this…this place sucks everyone is so rude and thinks they are entitled to any fucking thing they want.
bronx bound: That has got to be one of the most ridiculous and ignorant posts I’ve ever read.
Oh sure. That’s why you didn’t or can’t explain why. Typical. These anti-White racists (bronx bound) always cry when they are confronted with reality, that doesn’t match their particular made-up imagery and ideology. White New Yorkers have been voting with their feet for DECADES and they are fleeing the state and city.
NYC in 1955 was 7 million Whites. How many are there today? (Answer the question dumb-ass.)
London was 11 million Whites in 1960, and today?
Moscow is the only White city left in the world. That’s just a fact. Deny it all you want by say it’s “ridiculous”. You’re ridiculous.
These anti-White people are just brain-dead to the world at large.
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Oh Cargill, I never said I couldn’t explain why, I just chose not to bother wasting more time on you. However, since you seem so hellbent on receiving a public shaming, I’ll tell you why your post was ridiculous:
-First off, let me say that I’m white: Canadian citizen of Norwegian, English and Irish heritage. Since I’m about as white as they come, it’s pretty ridiculous to call me “anti-white”.
-“People just want to be around Whites, glom onto White success and acknowledge that White civilization is the best.” Don’t you think that if that were true “those people” would all be like “us”? Besides, what is “white civilization”? Do you think the majority of people in France, Sweden, etc. identify with the average white North American?
– …”all the people who you can even pinpoint what the hell they are, or where their ancestors’ culture is from.” Your grammatical skills are subpar, to put it kindly. I believe you meant to say “the people who you CAN’T even pinpoint”. Anyway, can you pinpoint the location from which your ancestors hailed? Perhaps you can, but I think that would put you in the minority since most Americans (not just those pesky minorities) can’t even locate their OWN hometown on an unmarked map. Besides, I find that most Hispanics, por ejemplo, generally know more about their backgrounds than those of us who are of European descent.
– “Whites deserve to live in peace, but the non-whites will never let us.” I already covered this one, but, since you seem like quite the simpleton, I’ll go over it again. EVERYBODY deserves to live in peace. Even you, though you’re making me feel less strongly about this with each post.
– …”that goes for you “asians” that think they are exactly like this “White site”.” I like how you put Asians in quotations marks, like it’s a made up term or something. I think we’ve already established that your English language abilities are inferior to most people who speak it as a second language (usually those pesky minorities), but Asian is capitalized. White is not capitalized (though I get that you’re going for the supremacy slant), but European would be.
– “Moscow is the only White city left in the world. That’s just a fact. Deny it all you want by say it’s “ridiculous”. You’re ridiculous.” When did I say it wasn’t? I wouldn’t know as I don’t spend my days looking for what city has absolutely nothing but white people. Please, feel free to move to this white paradise.
FYI, I’ve lived in both London and NY. I know that they are both incredibly diverse cities. I guess the difference between you and me is that I’m not really bothered by this fact. I find it’s much easier and productive to treat people as individuals. There are assholes in every race, as you’ve so beautifully illustrated.
And as far as my “made-up imagery and ideology”, I actually LIVE it every day. I live on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which is arguably one of the whitest neighborhoods in the city. So I get to see how “great” white culture is EVERY day. I also work in the Bronx. I am often the only white person on the train when I commute (at least when I bother to take notice). I have NEVER been bothered by any of these minorities, which you claim refuse to let people like me (white) live in peace. How often do you ride the train through these neighborhoods? I’m sure you’re way too scared, angry and hateful to even bother seeing how the “other half” lives.
I would be really curious to know where you live in this city. I’m guessing you don’t even live in the city at all. You sound like an aging, paranoid suburbanite to me.
P.S. Falling back on statistics doesn’t make you appear smarter. It makes you look like someone who is unable to formulate an intelligent opinion on their own. But please, keep them coming. You’re quite entertaining!
Have you been to New York recently? Have you not seen that white people are probably a minority there bar a few small pockets?
truth is, everybody flocks to big cities for the opportunities they present regardless of race.
D for the post.
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My old laptop has a lousy keyboard and sometimes it misses the characters (can’t can, you’re right). Your comments about my “grammar” etc. are a waste of time, and ad hominems. My SAT scores were higher than yours. My PSAT was higher as well. Stick to the point. Does it make you feel better to insult someone?
If you go back to my original post, which you so thoroughly “intellectually” dismissed as “ridiculous”, you’d see that you have agreed with my points, you may not like the way I view them, but they exist nonetheless and you agree that they do.
NYC is very Third World over much of it, your commute confirms that. Moscow is White, perhaps the only major world city that is, you confirmed that. Whites are a minority on NY and London sidewalks, and that didn’t exist even one generation ago. That’s also just a fact, you can interpret it as good, I do not. Tokyo, Shanghai, Bombay, Istanbul, etc. have not been overrun with other races like all large Western cities have. That again is just a fact of the world. It’s not a good one for future generations of Whites. Only a fool would cede political power like that, and LA shows how fast it can swing (mayor villagorosa).
Whites “deserve to live in peace”, basically is a comment against anti-white racism, against forced integration, against people who detest Whites’ ability to self-associate, it’s a comment about White flight (such a dependable phenomenon that there have been thousands of books written about it, and you can see it with your own eyes today in any place where White live with non-whites incl. England, Oslo and Dublin). People do want to move to White nations, and never vice-versa. You can never find (a significant number of) White people that move to non-white countries to live and dwell permanently. NEVER. Never in history. (Not counting 18th century colonial outposts, liberal expats and retirees who live a plane flight away in White envrionments anyway, so save us that retort).
Whites do know plenty, genealogy websites are second only to jewish porn as sites that Whites find popular.
To dismiss statistics because they contradict your ideology nd liberal brainwashing ….. now that is “ridiculous”. You live on the Upper East side, therefore you don’t have to deal with diversity, you also proved another of my points. You choose to self-segregate into the whitest part of New York!! LOL!! We’ll see what happens if and when you have children. Surely you aren’t so selfish and White-racist that you’d send your kids to a “private school” with no true diversity. You are the suburbanite, how long has it been since you left?
PS Besides, what is “white civilization”? Do you think the majority of people in France, Sweden, etc. identify with the average white North American?
You can be damn sure if they were all in South Africa, India, Qatar or China together they’d identify. Hell, put them all together on a street corner off the Cross Bronx and they would too. You could put these people together anywhere in about 95% of the world and they would IMMEDIATELY identify. Are you kidding? You need to travel the world more.
Have you not seen that white people are probably a minority there bar a few small pockets?
Yes, and once you are ‘unplugged from the Matrix’ and see things with a clear head, it is indeed amazing how fast it has changed. Once you see this, and start to figure out how this occurred, there is really no going back to sleep. It is really only Whites that live in this sleepy dreamland, all the other non-whites are totally awakened and focused on race with their every living thought.
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Alright Cargill, here’s your final response from me. Seriously, there is no way I’m spending more than the next five minutes on you. Enjoy!
“My old laptop has a lousy keyboard and sometimes it misses the characters.” This is exactly the type of lame response I’d expect from you. Do you really think I’m buying it? Why can’t you just admit that you’re prone to laziness? I’m sure in your mind white people could never be lazy though.
“My SAT scores were higher than yours. My PSAT was higher as well.” Well, why didn’t you just throw in “nananabooboo” as well? How would you know the SAT and PSAT scores of a total stranger anyway? Actually, we don’t have the SAT and PSAT in Canada. Instead we have a much higher quality public education system that ensures most students are university material by the time they graduate from high school.
“Does it make you feel better to insult someone?” Did it make you feel good when you called me a “dumbass” and “ridiculous” in a previous post? At least my insults, if that’s what you want to call them, were relevant and based on something that you presented for all who have access to the internet to see.
…”you have agreed with my points.” Never once did I dispute that large cities in the developed world are ethnically and culturally diverse. What I challenged is your notion that this is somehow “sick”.
“NYC is very Third World over much of it.” Clearly you have never traveled to the “Third World”. I have, and what is considered “poor” in NY is rich compared to how the majority of the world’s population lives. Having a bunch of people around who don’t look exactly like you does not a “Third World” city make.
“It’s not a good one for future generations of Whites.” Why? Clearly you have no faith in “your people”.
“Whites “deserve to live in peace”, basically is a comment against anti-white racism”, etc. Not hating all other races does not make one an “anti-white racist”. However, I do acknowledge that racism towards whites does exist. I am not at all ashamed or sorry that I am white, nor am I proud of my heritage. I have never understood why something over which one has absolutely no control would create such feelings in a person.
“Never in history. (Not counting 18th century colonial outposts”, etc. Oh yeah, because that was such an insignificant series of events in world history. You are of European descent. Your logic suggests that you have absolutely NO right to be in North America. So, what are you doing here? I’m sure some real North American Natives would like to know. You probably hate them too.
“genealogy websites are second only to jewish porn as sites that Whites find popular.” So Jewish porn sites are more popular amongst whites than learning about our heritage. Now that is a true testament to the greatness of white “culture” (whatever that is).
“To dismiss statistics because they contradict your ideology nd liberal brainwashing ….. now that is “ridiculous”.” Learn to type, and quit blaming your keyboard. Anyway, I never dismissed stats. I use them every day in my work. I kind of figured you were joking with those numbers you presented, as they are WAY off. Also, you didn’t cite your sources. Here’s a correction to the first of your precious stats, courtesy of the U.K. Office for National Statistics: “London has an official population of 7,512,400 (as of mid-2006) within the boundaries of Greater London”. You stated that London’s white population in 1960 was 3.5 million greater than its total population today. Highly unlikely. And now for NYC, courtesy of the Census Bureau (2007): “New York City’s population reached 8,274,527.” NYC’s white population comprises approximately 45% of the total population. The population of NYC in 1955 was approximately 7.8 million people (thanks again to the Census Bureau). You claim that NYC’s white population plummeted from 90% to 45% of the total in 50 years. Doubtful, as blacks, Hispanics, Asians, etc., have been here, and in significant numbers, for a LONG time.
“You live on the Upper East side, therefore you don’t have to deal with diversity.” The UES is not totally white. I shared the locker room at my gym this morning with a black woman and a Korean woman. Also, as I’ve ALREADY said (you are so annoying!) I “deal” with diversity every day, as I travel through and work in the Bronx. I also frequently travel to Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and “far uptown” Manhattan on weekends.
“You choose to self-segregate into the whitest part of New York!!” I am moving to the Bronx this summer, hence the screen name.
“We’ll see what happens if and when you have children.” I’m not having children. The world is overpopulated.
“You are the suburbanite, how long has it been since you left?” Manhattan is not the suburbs (*shaking head*). As I said two points ago, I leave Manhattan EVERY day. I am also going to Toronto next week, a city that, according to the U.N., is the most diverse on Earth. I’m sure you’d hate it there. I also recently returned from Italy. Does that give you an idea of how often I “leave”. You don’t even live in NYC, do you? And if so, why would you choose to live in a place that must make your temper flare every second of every day? LEAVE if you can’t take it. Lots of other weaklings do.
“You need to travel the world more.” Been there, done that. Take your own advice. Your mind could really use some opening.
Have fun getting the last word. You seem like just the type who thrives off such absurdities.
I am white too. I live in Amsterdam.
I’m from Chicago and moved to Seattle. I grew up on the South Side and lived a bunch of other places in IL (Joliet, Romeoville…)
People from Seattle always look at me with some sort of respect…, they have even said, “Thats a real city, Why did you leave?” AND the conversation always starts with..”in the city?” Then, they says, “that’s so cool.” But I didn’t grow up going to indie films and museums (only on field trips)
So annoying. I love the south side, but it isn’t pretty, it isn’t the downtown people think it is. No one in Chicago (at least no real Chicagoans) have the obsession with New York, but I’ve noticed it out here.
My poor husband is a country boy. People actually turn away when he says he is from central IL. What is so freaking impressive about a bunch of smokestacks and some restaurants?
I hate everyone.
You claim that NYC’s white population plummeted from 90% to 45% of the total in 50 years.
Yes, London too. Almost every single White western city has had this same phenomenon. Without invasion, famine or plague this has never occurred in recorded human history. I’m merely suggesting that Whites take a look at the liberal multi-cultural experiments and figure out what it really portends. No other people or race (jews, asians, hispanics, etc.) are willing to subject their future generations to this kind of ethnic cleansing based on an ideology. That is why israel exists. That is why Japan doesn’t open its borders to Africans.
I’m not having children. The world is overpopulated.
Typical. Darwinism at its finest. I’m not sure what kind of values you’d be in shape to pass on anyway.
You never answered my question. Is it good or bad for Whites to lose their voting majorities in the 21st Century in all Western countries that they created? Do you think Western culture can continue on without the Whites that created it and know it in the first place?
Let me guess, you don’t care.
Look at LA for your answer.
Seattle is in many ways just a small Chicago with a little topography thrown in. Much of the housing stock is similar and its streetscapes share much of the same look.
Seattle is much more quiet than Chicago, and it has a peculiar “dark side” to it that almost no city in the US has. I like Seattle though, growing up in Bellevue really can’t be beat when you sum it all up.
Anyone else see the Wear Sunscreen refences starting to appear?
This blog is rehashing comedy from the mid to late nineties for people who were too busy watching britney spears dancing to notice the brilliance.
I pooped my pants
Sorry to break it to you “white” Cuban girl. If your not white American you are just another “Hispanic Girl on welfare” to the white folks, iight!!
Go back to your “Island”. Oh that’s right, you can’t!!!!!!!!!!
I live in NYC, and you are absolutely right. NYC is owned and run by Jewish politicians; and then there is the rest, Harlem, Bronx, Spanish Harlem, ect. Not to mention the large influx of mexicans/ aka/illegals.
White People are a minority in NYC and I am one of them; I am reminded of my minority status everytime I walk out my door.
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The fact that it is not a white city has no effect on white people liking it or not. For example, white people can still like black iPods.
Also I think you are taking this blog a little bit too seriously.
F*** NYC.
’nuff said.
You didn’t mention having lived in Boston, so you’re close, but no super-honkey.
You forgot to mention that anyone who currently lives in, lived in, around, or within 100 miles of New York City will say it’s the best city in the world and proceed to talk about how it’s so much better than your home town. For some reason they always want to start a pissing contest that involves them pissing all over your home.
Bronx bound: An excellent rebuttal to Cargill, and you’re right to not continue answering his nonsense; especially since it was conclusively proven that he is in fact not white; but playing the white supremacist allows him to somehow gloss over what he avows to be a stigma.
Rather than looking at the world in its full array of colors, he chooses to weigh life in terms of black and white – his armor against the demons that cloud his reasoning.
From the anonymity of a sticky keyboard he likes to troll around blogs that are alien to his perverse thinking and demonstrate to ever larger audiences what a small creature he is.
Oh, and Cargill: Feel free to lob invectives my way. I’m not going to fast-track my way back here to read your retorts.
Too bad for you that the holy grail of “whiteness” is beyond your reach, and that you can’t be comfortable in the skin that you occupy.
in a world of chaos…you are an anchor of stability
Chicago who? Didn’t they have mobsters there back in the day or something?
mneah, everyone ive ever met from LA who comes to NYC and hates it there primarily seems to hate the fact that they have to rub elbows with plebes on the subway to get anywhere. One LA woman actually said “you know, people who aren’t white” which I guess was a euphemism for the dirty-poor? Either way she made me throw up a little in my mouth, and I vowed never to move out west where people can isolate themselves from those less fortunate so well that they can dehumanize them like that.
You can keep your fakey fakey “clean” “happy” cities.
I’ll keep my gritty diversity.
You call it mean, we call it honest.
screw you, NYC is not dirty you asshole. And it’s not freakin overrated….again, screw you.
true dat…because small town douchebag america sucks dickhole
Fuck you
’nuff said…bitch
Okay, I live in Queens – most of queens sucks
most of brooklyn sucks
most of bronx sucks
most of manhattan sucks
staten island, well, no one’s sure if it even exists
White city??
are you f’n kidding me?
my kid is in high school, theres only two or three other “white” kids in ALL of her classes combined
White is the new minority – deal with it
you know what cities white people REALLY like? Chicago
and Denver.
http://www.tucc.org
Yea this city has really gone down too shit with all these fucking immigrants they really make me sick cause they are more racist themselves towards white people .when they had they’re fucking protest in manhatten 2 years ago or whatever they should have been fucking deported or been forced to raft they’re way back to fucking honduras where they belong. Another thing is none of these scumbags obey the laws they break the laws and get away with it and if they get given a hard time about it by a judge they get defeneded cause they didnt know about it . they are bringing down this city and the whole fucking country and everything in it. No wonder the white people are moving out cause they are smart the only white people left living in the city are the poor basterds that are stuck there or too stupid to find somewhere else to go
this is supposed to be a satire, this entire white people thing. i love it. its good to have fun, not be always so serious. im white too, nice to meet you! im born in new york &lived many years in boston. (i spent most of my life between both coasts. anything in the middle didnt exist). unfortunatly neither of those 2 cities are white any more. i think 65-70% black & “other” as they say. you dont even have to be technically white to have an elitist life style. just creativity, indivuality, upwardy mobile tastes, self esteem. many of the people i meet in new york are elitists from south america. most you do see are the workers. what about white trash??? theyre WHITE. thats why the title of this websight blog is strange. they would call us yuppies. remember the yuppie handbook? moving on: what about the white working class? they earn more in boston than many acedemics. some how they see eduated people as “rich people” w/chi chi tastes- not always true. its a class difference, its not economic, its social. back to your title “what white people like” its still very funny. matter of fact IM very proud to be white, & from new york. this politically correct thing young people have (&old time librals) lacks humor, creativity, & yes intelligence. thank you for letting me laugh again.
actually new york has something for everyone. it appeals to the “white” people for one reason & the other for their own reasons. a really super duper white place is like vermont, oregon, seattle. but new york has the sushi the pilates, the fashion industry etc. wall street. its great because one can cross all worlds. you an go direct to harlem, little india, china town, see a mosque, hear the koran. you can walk out of one world & experience another in minutes. rich poor, illegal, criminal, royalty. its all with second of each other. i like the kind of person who would choose new york!
anonymous#2: You forgot to blame the immigrants for your writing and languages skills.
At one time or another, in NYC history, some dimwit such as you has grunted out the same statement.
Let’s take a trip down memory – not exactly the Joe Franklin kind:
“Yea this city has really gone down too shit with all these fucking immigrants they really make me sick cause they are more racist themselves towards white people .when they had they’re fucking protest in manhatten 2 years ago or whatever they should have been fucking deported or been forced to raft they’re way back to fucking
honduras”, ITALY, IRELAND, POLAND, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, HUNGARY, GREECE, CHINA, – blah, blah, blah,
where they belong. Another thing is none of these scumbags obey the laws they break the laws and get away with it and if they get given a hard time about it by a judge they get defeneded cause they didnt know about it . they are bringing down this city and the whole fucking country and everything in it. No wonder the white people are moving out cause they are smart the only white people left living in the city are the poor basterds that are stuck there or too stupid to find somewhere else to go”
See nitwit? Somewhere in that mix are some of your peeps, and they were just as despised for causing the city to “go to shit”.
Since when is the citizen of a country not permitted to control the borders of that country.
Snobby, it figures you’re still up to idiocy.
Google the 1924 Immigration Cut-off and learn your history.
Such fools the anti-White racists are, not thorough, they cherry-pick their history, etc. Lame.
Yes, let’s glorify a city when it was a fucking shithole, responsible for 2400 murders a year.
There’s nothing cool about living where it’s dangerous. There’s nothing cool about overcrowding or rats.
If those are what makes a city cool and edgy- move to the shithole outskirts of some Latin American city or any African metro area.
If safety and cleanliness are corporate and soulless, then let everywhere be consumed by soulless corporations.
I’m so tired of hearing about this city or that city. The only thing truely interesting about New York is the accents of each burrough; only in New York could you crowd millions into a small city and have them be so clicky that not every one sounds the same. The best thing about New York left 50 years ago, and they wore “dodgers” on the uniform.
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I’ve never ran never will which simply put to all you pilgrims who have never step foot in our OTHER 4 BORO’s i’m from Brownsville Brooklyn & proud of it as i am da whole NYC PERIOD ! What cracks me up about this whole thread is the way white peeps(people) bang on about nyc this & nyc that when in fact all they really know is 7-15 square blocks if that(there comfot zone) or wow how much they love times square or a walk in C.P(Central park), shopping in da village
taking in a broadway show & spapping pictures of da state building even though its on ya friggin doorstep lmao
how many of you apart from taking in da odd yankee game or a visit to shea stadium(by yellow taxi cab) or jetting in or out of JFK have actually ventured outside da confines of a few Manhatton blocks to understand why us REAL New Yorkers have much Luv 4 da whole of our city?????????????
lmao
When da 3Train pulls in at 96th street why does it seem a whole Race disembarks da train?????????????????????
If you were hell bent on koppin that Macys shirt & shoes but found da manhatton store had shut due to power failure would you ride da train to Borough hall or even Hoyt to da Brooklyn Macys?????????????????????????????????
I could drop scenerios like this all day ev day but i think ya’ll get da gesture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New York is’nt justa few MidTown Manhatton blocks its a vibrant wonderful place when ya really gets to know it & its many natives wit all kind of faces from all kinda races in many diverse places.
Everwhere has its pro’s & cons but it takes collective open mindedness to shape mold & contribute to a better tommorow.
Oh & to da young lady from nottingham u.k, i’ve been to ya city & nearby derby birmingham in ya midlands aswell as north west to manchester & liverpool & to london many a time paris frankfurt munich rotterdam amsterdam antwerp brussels luxemburg monoco stuttgart lizbon helsinki & a few other places around europe some were nice some not so nice, most of the u.k citys i visited were more like a wanna-be 51st state slowly but surely inploding on its self.
Basically theres no place like home
“BROOKLYN U.S.A”
Your good Green. Boston is extra good because it pulls in the “i love minorities of all types thing that’s why i live in an area where there aren’t any”
i’m a native new yorker and a big snob about it because this city is awesome, but c’mon man, it’s filthy…
for real…i’m sick of you “white” latinos, get off your high horse and join us in the real world, you might actually enjoy life if you weren’t so self-loathing.
but no one from new york would ever mistake a bostonian for one of us, so don’t worry!
I’m white and I’ve never been to New York.
I do admit that I t to go someday.
I also want to go to Tijuana but I won’t discuss that now.
coming from toronto, new yorkers are for the most part nicer than torontonians. and i agree, they are honest and spot on rather than flakey torontonians.
there are cities: paris, new york, moscow, london
and there are towns: toronto, portland, boston, philly
Totally agree with you.
im from san diego. i think i have a pretty good perception of what NYC would be like if i moved there. i don’t think i’d have a hard time adjusting. i know ghetto as fuck neighborhoods, places that are infested with mexicans from Tijuana, and i definitely know what white pretentious assholes are like.
but at the end of the day, i only worry about myself and i don’t get into conversations about where I’m from and if i like or hate it.
I’ve lived here for 25 years and still don’t consider myself a “New Yorker” because I wasn’t born here. Thus these people who are all, “I’m a New Yorker; I’ve been here three months,” don’t impress me.
That post is spot on! I just got back from Toronto (am a Canadian citizen living in NY), and once again found the people to be rather cold and the city seems sterile. People in real cities don’t need to constantly tell everyone that their city is “world class”. If it’s really true, it doesn’t need to be stated.
That post is spot on! I just got back from Toronto (am a Canadian citizen living in NY), and once again found the people to be rather cold and the city seems sterile. People in real cities don’t need to constantly tell everyone that their city is “world class”. If it’s really true, it doesn’t need to be stated.
“2400 murders a year”??? Where the hell do you get your information? Last year there were just over 500 murders (can’t remember the exact number). I’m not saying that isn’t high, but there are 8.5 million people living in the five boroughs alone. Thus, the percentage is quite low for a country plagued by gun violence.
New York has been deemed the safest large city in the U.S. for several years in a row. That’s hardly living “where it’s dangerous”. Get a clue.
vanderleun,
your mother must be proud.
First blog I’ve written. Love this site. Love NY, Chicago and like Boston. It’s bizarre that this blog turned into turn ways to vent rage about New York from (1) Non-New Yorkers telling those that are raised there that they aren’t New Yorkers((2) Bean-towners and (3)Second City-ers(4) Manhattanites hating Brooklyn-ites.
Why isn’t Boston on the list? Then you could have non-Bostonians telling natives that aren’t real Bostonians.
And then there’s always team who is supported by mostly white people!
White people from Chicago have a crippling inferority complex about New York.
And I actually really like Chicago.
What a great blog.
White people will always be lame. It’s a fact of life that we just all have to deal with. (That’s the point of this blog isn’t it?)
Once white people graduate from college, the move to Manhattan or Brooklyn, possibly Queens begins. As does the pissing contest that goes along with it.
I love how people think they are hip for living in Brookyln or the village. I love how people who live uptown think they have it all “figured out”. I love how people who live on the west side insist on hating on the east side. I love how people in Astoria and Long Island City think it’s the next DUMBO or Williamsburg.
“I love the fresh produce at Agata and Valentina.”
“The West Side is still very diverse.”
“I went to a small hip-hop club in Fort Greene.”
“I go grocery shopping in Queens because it’s cheaper.”
“I never go north of 14th street.”
It’s ok. We’re all in the same boat here. Be white, be lame and get the fuck moving!
That’s a George Carlin quote in case any non-whites are reading this.
all the above with negative comments are insecure and lame
Cubedweller, you’re a gutless wonder. You sound like some kinda hippe love child. You certainly are a douchebag, but not because you’re from Flatbush, but because you and your family left (probably lived above a store!). Now houses in the neighborhood cost in excess of a million dollars and folks are getting rich cashing in on the yuppie horde moving down from the Slope.
The worst part is I probably knew you, or at least went to school with you.. Rather than fight for your neighborhood against redlinning and all the outside ills and influences you abandoned it. At least the old line blacks and the *good* whites who stayed can reap the benefits and retire in good wealth or pass those great homes to their children who live mortgage free in million dollar homes their parent paid $5 to 14 grand for.
I believe we get the last laugh!
Oh, and to set the story straight, the ONLY place in Flatbush that suffered looting during the blackout was the car dealer on the corner of Empire and Washington.
You white people who ran like rats from a sinking ship disgust me.
Now, if you said you ran during the crack days of the 80s, I’d appreciate that more, as so did we and most American born blacks of means. By that time we had moved a couple blocks from the Junction (technically still Flatbush). We ran to sunny Flordia leaving our white neighbors behind. Good people, three generations living in the home they were born to, which their grand- and great grand-parents built. True Brooklynites through and through.
You and yours on the other hand….
I blame you and yours, along with the scumbag Mayor Koch and the rest of the politicians you white people elected and controlled. Koch and his ilk and the white people of NY did NOTHING while the city descended into chaos resulting from redlinning, drugs, and crime.
Did you all know that during those days Police were forbidden to enter know drug locations, nor to effect arrest when observing drug transactions for fear of the police becoming corrupted!!! Only in New York.
Thank goodness for the good mayor Guiliani!
Now that the onset recession has begun, this is one non-white NYer who can’t white for the real NY to stand up and wack your asses back to Nowhere, Neverwannabethere America.
Yes, I would agree that white people love Manhattan 🙂 While on travel there recently, I went to every major and local drugstore in Midtown and I could not find hair grease of all things (not one single type or brand). I couldn’t even find a trial size. So I asked an African American girl working there where I could get hair grease. And she said go to the Jamaica neighborhood in Queens.
white people soon your secrets will be mine!
http://aniggaincyberspace.com/2008/04/15/things-i-learned-from-educated-black-people/
Ummm no – Manhattan is now where lawyers live. Brooklyn is much more what white people like – darling cafes, gentrification, dive bars, parks and dogs.
Manhattan is fully yuppie now.
THERE IS NEVER ANY ESCAPE.
IS THERE.
Manhattan belongs to the super-rich
“The super-rich (0.9%) Multi-millionaires whose incomes commonly exceed $350,000; includes celebrities and powerful executives/politicians. Ivy League education common.”
Not yuppies but owners of yuppies.
You note “they.” Who are “they?” And is they not you too even though you spell “tryna?” And when you say gentrification do you mean that from the 18th, 19th, 20th, or 21st century?
The city changes quickly doesn’t it.
manhattan is so disgusting it’s cliche.
DON’T BE RESENTFUL BECAUSE I ASKED FOR MY SALAD DRESSING “ON THE SIDE PLEASE.”
BAD SERVICE = BAD TIPS
YOU KNOW THE DRILL.
I WANT TO BE SURE MY LANDLORD’S CHILDREN GO TO A GOOD SCHOOL.
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Park Slope on YouTube:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/17/31_17_how_youtube_sees_the.html
I think that the definition of “white people” in this case applies to liberal, Ivy-League or equivalent educated, white people….
Here in south OC we have lots of $$$, like our good weather, uncrowded roads, and techie jobs-and moan about the lost equity in our overpriced houses and really moan when barrio SantaAna or the heathens from the 909 (Riverside/San Bernardino) area code invade Newport Beach on a hot day like yesterday…oh well, I guess nothings perfect! We also tend to go to large bible-thumping megachurches like Saddleback (i would never go near the place myself, but I would guess half of my neighbors do!), almost never vote for Democrats (Obama is cancer here, as is Hillary) – and the best-kept secret is the name of a good gardener/housekeeper!
I would say most of my neighbors have lived in the places discussed above before they had kids….
hey Jon, after the narcos shot each other up in the middle of Tijuana over the weekend, I dont think you want to vist there anytime soon…
besides, all the nice Tijuana hotties (the ones from good families with money and educations)-hang out in the Gaslamp in SD on the weekend….
for those of you looking at southern California-LA and OC/SD are very different places…most OC/SD people will only cross the county line to go to LAX for an international flight…otherwise you have better roads, cleaner cities, honest (by and large, with a few conspicuous exceptions) politicians not catering to the illegal immigrant lobby, your own sports teams, better schools, first-rate restaurants with every bit the diversity of LA, etc..
It’s interesting that the first thing you notice is that when you cross the county line on I-5 or 405 driving south is that there are twice as many lanes on the freeway (since the voters of OC were wise enough to pass a gas tax in the early 90’s that rebuilt all the roads…and as a result the LA politicians that are busy lining the pockets of their government employees complain of OC dumping their traffic into LA (instead of rebuilding the freeway-which should have been done a long time ago!)
To sum up-LA is a pit-while OC/SD is still a nice place…
I drove down the PCH last year, and with the exception of Laguna Beach – quite a quaint town – found most of the OC really mall-like, completely ignorant of the beautiful landscape, and what is with those gated communities?! It feels so processed and dead.
LA, while insanely covered with highways has a wildness and optimism to it that you certainly couldn’t get anywhere else and the architecture is outstanding, a cultural gem that is part of everday life.
SD Gaslamp Quarter is good times all around though!
I know it’s so weird how the harder Toronto tries, the lamer it feels. The most laidback Canadian cities (Van and Montréal) are by far the more happening. I think it’s called a personality and unfortunately TO never feels like it will be more than a sum of it’s parts.
I hope I’m wrong, there is so much good stuff here on paper but it just don’t feel it. Sorry T-dot, I tried, I really did.
NYC is *THE* immigrant town built on the shutzpah and grit of those looking for a fresh start. What fucking city do you think Ellis Island is in?
As far as all the Van der this and thats, Astors etc, at the time of their ascendence, they were totally uncultured nouveau-riche that simply created their own “aristocracy” out of thin air because they were embarrassed of their industrial wealth compared to the real old money of Europe. Total phonies with not a lot of taste if you ask me.
NYC character comes from the love of life of the people who inhabit the entire city.
In case you haven’t noticed LA is one of the most happening cities on the globe at the moment. I guess that’s what happens when people from different backgrounds come together, they get interesting and creative.
go ahead keep your monoculture you caker!
Lindy:
If you go inland a llittle bit there are a lot of the old citrus/railroad towns that have maintained a lot of their original character…you should spend some time in downtown Orange (1 1/2 miles from Disneyland, and about 100 years away) near Chapman University-there are businesses there from the 1900’s (Watson’s Drug)an old drug store with dining area), a great, inexpensive Cuban restaurant (Felix-which could well be one of the 10-best restaurants in OC) in the circle/town square, lots of antique shops, and strict historical preservation ordinances…
You should also spend time in downtown Fullerton (same, with lots of restaurants/bars-the OC version of Gaslamp) and Santa Ana (the county seat with a large, vibrant barrio)…same goes for San Juan Capistrano (not only the mission but the town around it)…the train station and the old town on the west side of the tracks is well worth your time (as is the kiddie zoo!)
Finally-find the main business district in San Clemente-good restaurants, bars and definitely not prefab (I will admit, anything east of I-5 fits the bill)…
Having said that-people like living in those gated communities (I in fact live in one Dove Canyon) and love it-being the father of a 7 year old there are kids everywhere, the schools are good-public and private-and we do in fact have a town center in Rancho Santa Margarita that is very walkable and vibrant, as is the lake…and not too many chains/strip malls-they all went to Foothill Ranch to the north. DC/RSM has all been built in the last 10-15 years-and has consciously tried to create a center, and not be just a collection of strip malls…
A lot of the older planned communities (Irvine, Mission Viejo despite the fantastic landscaping) have the sterile feel you describe.
FUCK Manhattan.
And Brooklyn.
He’s talking about back in the 70s when everyone was fleeing NYC because it had so much violence. That’s when his figures are from. Read a comment before you respond, yo!
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
I’m from Washington, D.C. and well a lot of white people have never really lived here. But they’re trying to move back in and our Mayor Andrian Fenty is making tit possible for them. Shutting down schools, moving black people out into Maryland. It’s just insane and asinine. I’m a young black lady who lives in Washington, D.C. and I really dislike New York.
[…] 10. Live in Brooklyn, if only for a bit. Just to see what all the fuss is about, and so I can say things like, “man, last night I ate dinner at this kick-ass restaurant in Park Slope…” God, I am such a white person parody. […]
First off, I’m NY born and raised. I only go to Manhattan when I absolutely have to. I think the people who live in the city are the worst because it’s like going to Disney World. There are so many people who are insecure and they try to act tough. People in the other four boroughs are so much cooler. I’d rather live in the Bronx any day than Manhattan!
And if you really want to get technical, the REAL NY is the state anyway.
and collectively the white people shudder and think
“..ha…hair grease?”
LAWLZ
Who the hell would aim a blog at Canadian people? Your country is just a big frozen piece of shit.
This is off point, but what about Tokyo? I only ask because I feel America has no modern cities, in the sense of evolving. Essentially I mean the public transportation systems that seem decrepit. Why are we proud of shit trains? I wish we could have vision again and have the desire the best rail system the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, I think we’re a century behind Europe and parts of Asia, and won’t ever be able to catch up.
Another brilliant post. I live in Manhattan, so I have nothing to add to this…
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/
I am disgusted that hipster scum with their blue ribbon beer and their constant calls to their rich parents demanding instant funds deposited are claiming the city.
They are the new hippies with less to get involved with.
Forget brooklyn (at least wburg…well no they are freakin everywhere now) I’ll take Miami any day of the week.
you are too fucking bitter, get over it.
gritty diversity? you are so full of shit.
What’s hair grease?
It doesn’t matter where you have lived – you are still white!
I was waiting for someone to bring up DC! There is a whole other blog which could just be written about DC culture.
Don’t forgot Potomac and Bethesda.
I’m a young white lady who lives in DC and I hate it too! I am so white.
I was born and raised in Manhattan. I really dislike the “blanding” and white washing of the city by all these bland whites from kansas city or seattle or some other place that suites them better. when they move in with their tatoos and bald heads and fedoras , all of a sudden everything gets white , the food is bland and whole foods follows quickly. Give me the REAL New York, the New York that they are scared to go to … give me Queens and the Bronx… they have already contaminated Brookyln
You don’t get it do you? This racist blog perpetuates stereotypes about people based on skin colour when what it really should be referring to is the privledged upper-middle class.
^white for sure
I was born in Queens and lived in Brooklyn years ago and have lived in the DC area for over 20 years. Now I even start to get a touch of southern drawl if I don’t talk to family enough(if I actually hear a southern accent from myself I call my mother for a 4 hour call immediately!)…
But holy crap, as Denis Leary once said – “the fact that you’re from NY is like a badge of honor, it impresses the shit out of everybody!”. Personally I don’t know what the big deal is, but yes, the food is better there. Not sure if everything else is worth triple the price though.
And holy shit I’m reading a couple other New Yorker’s post and want to ask them WHAT PART!!!??? and talk about food for 5 hours.
Must……move….to…next…subject….
this is not where i was born but way too go brookllyn
go to: http://www.revoint.com
Anothe thing white people like: Looking Down on People from Flyover States.
I swear only White People really care about where you live and whatever cultural cachet it gives you. Everyone else cares about what you can do and what kind of person you are.
Why do New Yorkers care so much if other people like their city or not? That’s why this blog is about you. It’s just another town. Nobody cares about the “gentrification” in some neighborhood in your town except other people in your town, and white people who love your town for no good reason. But here you are on the blog talking about some neighborhood issue as if the world would care. When I think of New York (and I have been there once), I just think it’s another city but with lots of tall buildings. What makes it stand out are all the white people who go on and on about it all over the internet. New Yorkers don’t seem to be aware that there is anywhere else in the world.
New York is the center of the world, anyone who denies that just wishes they lived there or knew more about it.
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I don’t know anyone who wants to lives there. Everyone hates it.
“unfortunatly neither of those 2 cities are white any more. i think 65-70% black & “other” as they say”
Not half as unfortunate as your grammar!
a century behind europe? hardly. you think the subways are shitty in new york city? try navigating the public transportation in budapest or prague. london may have nyc beat (and i’m sure residents of tokyo are already utilizing hovercraft technology by now they’re so advanced), but from my experience few metros are as “progressive” as the one in the big apple. it may be small, but the ratio of city size to rail size seems pretty damn accurate to me.
What other city can you be born in and for your entire life consider yourself a tourist. If anybody dislikes NYC please stay home!!This way we I dont have to dodge your slow asses walking 3 side by side holding hands on our narrow sidewalks at 5:00 p.m. For everyone else please visit and enjoy!
wow. reading these comments, two things are obvious
#1 venom toward upperclass 30ish lemmings. Are you paying attention, midwestern hipsters? ..this is the treatment you can look forward to. Stay where you are and make the best of it.
#2 the misplaced sense of ‘ownership’ WRT city arguments. It’s rather silly. In all likelihood, ‘your’ city isn’t your first, and won’t be the last. It’s just where you’ve planted yourself today. You probably didn’t have much hand in making it what it is, either. Why argue on behalf of ‘your’ city, as a hanger-on.
Ive come on this to the conclusion that the reason white people like all of the shit on this website is the following:
If you got it like that why not experience more with your life.
Shit I golf, snowboard, rockclimb, mountain bike, live in manhattan, drive a fat asS bmw suv, fuck asian women, have plenty of black friends, got sweaters and motherfuckin t-shirts that I’LL wear on a plane to San FraCisco if I damn well fell like it. Shit Ill Even invite my lawyer to my beach house on a sunday for coffee maybe some tea while we read the fuckin New York Times. Yes the Liberal rag that sweats Barack Obama. After that we will indulge in some microbrews on my vintage sail boat.
When I get Bored ill travel the fuck where I want probably to snowboard somewhere usually Utah the whitest fuckin state there is. Ill take in some wine before I watch a film at sundance while I am there.
Just for a challenge I will go to a farmers market get some organic shit go home and order some sushi. You see I am trying to get in shape to run a fuckin marathon. After I finish the first thing I am going to do is shut of my i-pod loaded with free music, grab some bottled water and spark a fat mother fuckin spliff!!!!
YEAH I LOVE BEING AWARE OF DIVERSITY.
HOWEVER THE IRONY OF THIS WHOLE THING IS BEING WHITE FOR ME ONLY FOR ME!!! kICKS BIGTIME ASS!!
Another thing, white people tend to think that the city is solely made up of Manhattan and will never leave the borough, unless to go to Yankee game or Mets game. A few artsy ones will consider Brooklyn also. But us true New Yorkers (the ones born and raised here) know that the city is made up of 5 boroughs, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Manhattan. Staten Island is debateable. =)
Well, obviously they’re not cool, hip, or urban enough.
You don’t know anyone who wants to live here because you live in Dayton. I was born in Ohio and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Being an individual is frowned upon, tolerance towards people that are different in ANY way is nonexistent, and everyone is always shoving their “born again christian” religious beliefs down other people’s throats. In New York, I know my neighbors, and I actually LIKE them! (and we all like the fact that we are different.)
I’ve had the choice of trying cuisines from around the world, not just Denny’s, The Olive Garden, and other “all you can eat” establishments featuring “sneeze guards” and free parking.
When I go to the movies, I actually have a chance to see the small independent, well written film that never makes it to Ohio because nobody there wants to see anything but the latest “blockbuster” served up with a dumpster filled with popcorn, and a garbage-can-sized Diet Coke.
I have a car, but I LIKE walking everywhere and experiencing my city. People in Ohio don’t walk or take public transportation unless they can’t afford a car, or they’ve lost their license due to D.U.I. charges.
There is theatre, opera, symphony orchestras, EVERY rock/pop group plays here, there is live music somewhere most nights of the week, some of the finest museums in the world, amazing libraries, shopping, etc., etc., etc. So, do you know WHY that is? It’s because people aren’t interested in supporting the arts in places around the U.S. like Dayton Ohio.
Therefore, all the artistic/culturally motivated people from around the country who are unappreciated and unsupported by their local communities come here, to New York City. New York wants them!
So, PLEASE don’t come to New York if you “hate” it, and I promise NEVER EVER to darken Dayton’s doorstep.
cargill – spot on….I spend much time wondering the same thing. It seems that whites want to extinguish themselves – it is really crazy, I can’t understand it. The only thing I think is that many whites really believe this left-wing multi-culti stuff that everyone is going to hold hands and love each other – Of course, REAL white people accept that maybe this is a nice idea in theory, but they recognize that in all of human history it NEVER happened so the chances that it will in our life time are essentially non-existent….why whites want to bet everything they have on something so unlikely is very puzzling to many people. I encourage other white people on here to try to explain their thought on this.
You are the biggest ass-clown on this board. I doubt you have even travelled in the Midwest (a week in the summer when you were 5 to visit your grammy doesn’t really count), yet expect everyone else to visit New York and worship the inhabitants. NYC is just one huge phallic symbol.
The only people who talk about NYC are people from NYC. No one else really cares. Shut up already.
This is so true! I lived in Manhattan and hardly wanted to venture out to the other boroughs BUT, once I did, I loved all of them.
This is similar to when people think of California they associate it with southern california, LA, Hollywood, Orange County. I was raised in Orange County and defintely never imagined 40 billion shows being made about the place. It is pretty, fun people, nice weather but good lord, there are other places worth filming.
Really smart post!
Pretty much sums up reasons to love new york – it is one of the most unique, interesting cities in the US… and alot of fun!
Too true about the grit aswell : ) Being on the receiving end of street crime is not cool…
Rent sucks though big time (though london, sydney, many great cities have same problem). Ah well cant have it all!!!
PS Chicago, Philly, SF cool too – probably not quite as much as ny tho. Havent been to boston, but looking forward to it!
Oh and live music every day of the week is nice : )
I think people only find it dirty and disappointing because they only go around seeing the tourist traps like Times Square and such! Sure, when I walk around those areas I want to run away too, mostly because it’s just filled with tourists and those trying to rip off the tourists!
I’ve been to many cities both in the US and abroad and NYC is one of the most exciting and cleanest cities around. I think you have to live in Manhattan to get it. Sightseeing just doesn’t cut it. Plus….most people from small towns or cities don’t “get” the energy that only a true New Yorker gets. Like all of the writers,actors, musicians and incredibly driven and successful people. They all get it. So do I!
If I lived in a small town or in the country, I’m sure it would have many pluses but…I would shrivel up without this city!
Oh please!!!! The Midwest is full of overweight, wannabe city dwellers with terrible accents!
Go jump in the ocean..oh wait, I mean lake!
Yeah Brooklyn too, because parts like East Williamsburg are being “gentrified”. I did a quick self-score to see just how white I really am (all this time I thought I was my Italian-Jewish hodgepodge of ethnic flavor). I genuinely “like” 22 of the 106 things on the list; not mutually exclusive, not that I “dislike” all the others but those 22 really grabbed me. Some of the things on that list are just *embarrassingly* white, e.g. snowboarding, vintage clothes and standing still at concerts.
Actually, I seriously doubt any of us who live here want our sidewalks any further crowded by fat, waddling Midwestern tourists who can’t find their way around and always seem to ask directions to the nearest Olive Garden!!!!
Yes, NJ is such a wonderful, clean state…god I almost forgot!
I’m surprised you’re such a hater…NJ is almost like NY except without the culture, good resteraunts etc,…
By the way, people from Manhattan don’t go the Jersey Shore…you must be mistaken them for people from Staten Island!
New Jersey is a pit!!!!!!
Filled with soccer moms in their big gas guzzling SUV’s, wannabe gangsters who think they’re Tony Soprano, and so many strip malls it could make a normal person puke! Oh and your beaches are filled with people from Philly and North Jersey. No self respecting Manhattanite would go to the Jersey Shore!!!! We have Long Island. Trust me…it’s a world of difference:)
Hey Dealbreacker,
Blow me.
Dan from NY
Oh Dealbreaker – don’t be a hater!
It’s so ugly.
<333!
Here here bitches! …lol
i’m from ny state, not the city (ie- long island). i hate the city, primarily because it got too white (i’m irish and puerto rican…i think it’s still pc for me to say things like that). i lived in the bronx for a short time, biiig cultural shock after growing up on the island, and i absolutely loved it. not for nothing, but i found that as far as long island, and manhattan go, the white people are who ruined everything. everyone’s afraid of their own shadow, so they cope with it by having waaay too much attitude over everything. “ewww a homeless person!”…. or my personal favorite, of getting into fights over who bumped into who in penn station. in the bronx people get along with eachother. it’s not rude like the streets of manhattan, or in the suburbs where you can hide on your acre of property, or roll up your car window if someone you don’t know tries to speak to you.
i plan on moving back to the bronx as soon as i get my crap together, and can actually function without the help of a parent…
Looking forward to having you back 🙂
Well said.
London’s subway system is the worst I’ve ever used (I lived there). Yes, it’s clean, but that’s where the advantages end. It is overpriced, slow, runs infrequently, stops around midnight, and those morons “require” a foot of personal space during rush hour, meaning that two or three trains may pass before you can actually get on one. Give me NYC’s system any day!
not so, not so…unless you’re from the midwest…where no one talks about anything of value. dealbreaker?
YES! I KNEW YOU WERE FROM THE MIDWEST!
You can complain about New York all you want but at least just by living here we are much, smarter,wiser,interesting and tolerant then your slow, snooty,fat asses. Please! Please! stay home in your crappy little town and hang out at the local applebee’s, olive garden bar with all your friends . We really don’t want you here or on second thought maybe we do so you can live like you are in a movie and rent some crappy roach infested apartment in the worst neighborhood so you can live the “real” New York experience ( oh by the way, those apartments are available because we would not even consider living in such crap Black or White , so don’t think you are so cool and tell me about it because I will laugh my ass off !
Jane, you have obviously missed the ENTIRE point of the list. Unclench it and find some humor in it.
ummm..WHAT?
that made no sense – remind me NOT to visit “wheaevah” he’s from LOL
“Left coast is the best coast!”
I love how OC / SD are much different from LA…I’m from SF and I call Laguna Beach the Sausalito of southern California. I actually am slightly embarrassed to admit how much I like Orange County but I do. If I were a suburbanite and looking to raise a family, I would move back there – the natural beauty and quality of life are top notch. Sure some subdivisions are sterile and gated but you don’t have to live there and if you DO – you really don’t have to worry about crime and blight…what’s so wrong with that?
White people don’t like New York for its diversity. It is a big turn off. All those criminal filthy pigs walking around fifth avenue is not the diversity we like. In modern America, diversity and multiculturalism means “no white people”. If liberals love diversity so much let them all move to black neighborhoods and send their kids to schools there.
u all or fuckin ridicolous let me explain something to all of u monkies i am from new york and nyc sucks it has become the most overhyped, crowded, expensive, lamb place on earth no one that lives in new york is actually from there anymore it is all a bunch of rich mommmy and daddy kids and trust fund ass holes who watched sex and the city to much and want to walk around new york and shop and eat there fat faces off…. new york is a place that is unlivable jackasses….. most of the people who come here stay for a little and leave casue it is to expensive and unforgiving so i suggest that if u where not born here stay in your own region of the fuckin world and make ur own fuckin cities more diverse better cultured stop comin to newyork u fuckin idot people u crowd up the steets, the resturants, and u take up space and air if u are from the fuckin midwest stay there and make whatever city u have better and create jobs or whatever there new york does not need u i am tired of monkies writing about new york and tv shows just live ur life and fuckin stay in where ur are from and grow ur own roots instead of living some fuckin dream thinking ur are gonna make it here go home u fuckin asshole people and guess what at the end of the day i left new york two years ago and i live in italy but here is how it goes this should be a fuckin rule
1. where ever u are from where ur parents, family etc is from u should stay there and make whatever city u have better
2. if u are polish, irish, jewish, etc… whatever u are go to ur country where ur ancestors are from if u are going to move overseas and extend them i am italian american parents from italy but i do not go to fucking france to extended my roots or argentina i stick to my roots i grew up in new york stayed there and went to italy when i come home it is to new york very simply
so dont fuckin come back to new york u fuckin cunt
send me to hell or new york city it would be about the same to me
I’m from the upper west side and you should move out if you don’t like it here.
That’s funny, I call Sausalito the Laguna Beach of NorCal!
What the hell kinda bullshit article is this?!
They’re countin Black ppl as not being New Yorkers !
Get Away!
New York is fine once you know where you belong.
And people are welcome.
as long as your not gonna be some racist fag who dosnt accept other races.
Rawr! i am mad.
Shittest article ever.
People need instructions on how to talk to a New Yorker now?!
Pfft. Get for real u mass tryhards.
F-A-I-L
So, I take it your not looking for a roomate, aye?
Wow!! You sound fucking retarded….
Ah, but they are, they are!
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/09/10/white-people-in-the-news-sept-10-2008/
Thai restaurants will follow in their wake!
New Yorkers display an alarming ignorance of the world. New Yorkers, regardless of skin color or food preferences, are New Yorkers. New Yorkers think alike, opting for Big Gub’ment super liberal politics. Opting for the mob, corruption, and coarseness.
This makes New Yorkers . . .
well . . .
Provincial.
Nonsense…even to ridiculous to be funny. Stereotyping? That’s provincial.
Brilliant!
here here
this shit is totally bullshit. there’s no dam white people in brooklyn. that place is mad hood. it’s probably the most ghetto place anywhere.
“If liberals love diversity so much let them all move to black neighborhoods and send their kids to schools there.”
Blacks in concentrated neighborhoods is predominately a class issue not a race/diversity issue you ignorant bastard. I guess I should feel sorry for this conservative asswhipe who’s griping that America has lost its good ole wholesomeness in favor of allowing a quarter of the population (as in non-white/anglo) a visibility never seen in the past.
this is all true. i stay hood and live in the bronx. soldierguy – brooklyn is now less hard than manhattan.
okay i’m black and i don’t think this blog is racist at all. there are just poking fun at stereotypes by making generalizations.
damn you must be rolling in the dough!!!!
what????
how do you know he lived in boston????
racist
NYC dmographics
white- 43.88%
black- 25.10%
asian-11.73%
yeah whites definatly aren’t the majority in new york anymore… (sarcasm)
and can someone explain to me why white people don’t like to include jews as being white?? this has baffuled me for some time.
okay so basically what your saying is how you hate diversity and ethnic exclaves in new york and want it to be basically a city full of white people (which would inturn indirectly take away whats so great about the city)
he never said anything about the 70s he was talking about now maybe you should read a comment before you respond and even if he was talking about the 70s that would make him a retard because our conversation has nothing to do with that.
wow do you know me?? im from new jersey and just moved to charrlotte!!!
Sup Soldierturd. The hardest place is Yukon Canada bro. Brooklyn is as hard as a softie in sweatpants dude.
If you’re from New York, then by your logic your roots are NOT in Italy.
Or, live on the west coast where you can have culture, not be surrounded by a bunch of people like “jane,” AND keep your job during economic downturn
Well I know I don’t care. I wouldn’t move to the place unless it was the ONLY option outside the midwest. But obviously, a lot of people watched Sex in the City or Friends or even Seinfeld and wanted to live in a place like New York.
Til they saw it.
so unwhite
“everyone is always shoving their “born again christian” religious beliefs down other people’s throats.”
Unlike in New York, where everyone is trying to push their “New York is better” belief down other people’s throats
I’ve been to New York and Seattle (Not Kansas City… WHY?) and Seattle is def not whiter. It does have a lot more homeless though, it seems.
Miami, hah! Now THAT”S culture
Did you study abroad there? Because according to #72, hooray! now you can say you lived there!
I agree with hoolsa, London’s is better with the exception of the fact you pointed out that it stops too early at night. Also, when it breaks down they take a lot more time fixing it.
But London still trumps New York in all the other areas people are supposed to like NYC…
“artists, restaurants, a subway, history, diversity, plays, and other white people.”
nah trick
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA IS THE HARDEST PLACE NEW YORK IS LIKE GREENWICH, CONNETICUT COMPARED TO US
This guy is a ranting nut, but he does bring up a good point about New York. How many people who aren’t doctors/hedge fund managers/partners at a law firm can really afford to rent a decent place on Manhattan? It’s only natural that the place will fill up with pseudo-intellectual trust fund kids.
Jesus…
You probably should get around Brooklyn since you know so much about it. White people are the majority in Brooklyn. “Hood” my ass, Brooklyn is becoming more gentrified than Harlem.
THE TITLE-hilarious
brooklyn is even more full of white hipsters than manhattan thanks to williamsburg.
& i’m from NY so i’d know.
i stay in queens though 🙂 just weekly visits to the city.
Why are you on here when the topic is NY then asshole!
But…it’s Virginia!
Of course it’s a “white” city…….you’re still bitter the south lost the war. Right? Been to VA, lovely cities in the State generally BUT…..still a bit chock full of redneck, racist morons for most tastes.
NY is a cosmopolitian city…meaning like London and Paris it belongs to the world!
VA belongs to the….south:)
Grow up.
You are so lame. White people are all over Brooklyn. Go visit Clinton Hills, Bed Stuy… where ever. They moving in, honey. It’s not the “most ghetto place” & white people can be ghetto too.
most of the subways in europe (that ive used at least) arent much better than in new york. granted, i only briefly visited new york when looking at colleges and lived in europe for 6 years when i was growing up so i dont have equal experience with the two..but from what ive seen there isnt a whole lot of difference. i do agree that some of asias public transportation is better though, i went to highschool in thailand and the bts skytrain there (like a subway but above the street) is freakishly clean. but to be honest i prefered the subway in new york to the ones in tokyo. they’re actually less crowded in new york
INTERESTING SITE. FUNNY, I MUST ADMIT. I MUST BE WHITE THEN BECAUSE I CAN RELATE 99.9% OF YOUR STEREOTYPES. FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.
MUST MENTION THOUGH I DETECT THE TYPICAL AIR OF WHITE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX HIDING BENEATH A BLANKET OF “I’M SO FUNNY. I LAUGH AT MY OWN RACE. HA HA HA I’M SO COOL.”
I’VE SEEN IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN, IN SCHOOL, IN COLLEGE AND AT JOB INTERVIEWS FROM WHITE CANDIDATES.
THIS LOOK OF (I WILL NOT BLINK. I WILL NOT SHOW THAT I AM NERVOUS), “I CAN BE YOUR FRIEND, I AM NOT AFRAID. I WILL SMILE AT YOU AND SHOW YOU HOW PROGRESSIVE I AM. BUT… (DEEP DOWN YOU THINK) ‘HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY THINK YOU WILL GET THIS JOB IF I AM ALSO APPLYING FOR IT.”
WHITE PERSON TALKING ABOUT FOOD – “I USE ORGANIC RAW SUGAR… (PERSON LOOKS AT ME TO SEE IF I REACT AND SAY, ‘OH, YEAH. RIGHT. I DO TOO.’, TO SEE IF I EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS.)
WHITE PERSON CONTINUES: “YOU KNOW… (PUZZLED LOOK) AS OPPOSED TO REGULAR SUGAR (??)”
WHITE PERSON THINKS: (DON’T KNOW IF SHE REALLY KNOWS BUT I’LL LET IT GO… DON’T WANT TO MAKE HER FEEL INFERIOR.)
ANYWHOOOO……… IT’S ALL A FACADE. I THINK YOU BELIEVE ALL THIS CRAP AND DEEP DOWN YOU REALLY THINK YOU ARE BETTER BECAUSE OF IT.
…YOU WOULD NEVER ADMIT TO IT, THOUGH.
NOPE, NOT EVEN TO YOUR (WHITE) FRIENDS.
Yes, NYC is the greatest city in the world. But I prefer Prospect Park in Brooklyn to Central Park. Like its Yuppie cousin, it has nature, a cool zoo and, as a bonus, PP was the site of a battle in the American Revolution.
Come on. Why is there even a site like this? God wouldn’t even like these things that some of you are saying. We are born of the same. We are all human beings white or black.
For the record I’m black native american and white. And I find this whole thing offensive so people please stop.
This blog should probably be called “Stuff Liberals Like” rather than Stuff White People like.
BTW a lot of this is spot on about me.
Hey, Jen there is a post for you called” getting easily offended” LMAO
Please rename the site “Stuff YUPPPIES Like”
Its funny, you ask a Southern white person and they’ll tell you something like “I’ve been there once, and that was enough for me!!”
Have you thought about a sister site of “Stuff Rednecks Like?” You could score “Hating New York” near the top.
Brooklyn is not Manhattan!
As a black woman (Native New Yorker and proud) who likes 99.99% of the stuff listed I totally agree!!
But this site is hilariously funny anyway! 🙂
This sight is like looking at a mirror. Just booked my second trip to Manhattan in 2 years. I’ve never laughed so much at myself and my friends before.
As a White Person in “flyover country,” I can tell you that most educated white people in the Midwest consider New Yorkers to be completely obnoxious, self-important, and f-ing ridiculous to pay so much just to live in walking distance of lots of ethnic food. In reality, most of these people have no real experience with diversity. Working in an auto factory with people from many different backgrounds is diversity. Going to an Asian Fusion restaurant with your white friends is not.
Every day you can pick up the NY Times and read a story about New Yorkers doing something expensive and ridiculous, but congratulating themselves for it. Check this one out: http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/travel/escapes/12ashrams.html?em
Don’t get me wrong – I’ve been to NY several times and it is a great city. I love it. Its just annoying when the people who live their automatically think they are somehow more culturally advanced and sneer at all the Midwestern people, as if we are all gun-toting hicks.
Ha ha. You don’t know what ghetto is, son. Why don’t you hop a greyhound to Detroit. Or just watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfhsS-KMFL4
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This is so true. I hate to admit it, but for some reason people ask me all the time if I’m from New York (I’m not) and for some sick twisted reason I feel super flattered and superior.
This is racism. If white people wrote a blog like this about blacks there would be blood in the streets. I hate this f-ing double standard.
i think this blog is written by white people about white culture…and it’s making fun of them. black people making fun of black culture would be similar, and that wouldn’t be racist.
This blog is written by a white person, dipshit.
It is written by a white person – but i totally get what you mean. it is a double standard…..white people need to consistantly feel bad because our great great great great grandparents enslaved black people. i didn’t do that shit to you, so don’t make me feel guilty for it. And i don’t owe you shit. You want to get rich, go out and work for it – Obama did.
Another note:
New York is a great city (so is chicago, boston and san fransico – but not LA, La sucks)
But most NY’s (myself not included) are really snobish about where they live. Get over it. I live here because i can walk down the street, holding my peurto rican boyfriends hand (i’m white and gay) and nobody cares…that’s why i love this city
Get over your zip code douche bag – try living on your own income, and stop mooching off you parents, you trust fund shit bag
New York is the center of the universe right now. Of course folks like it, want to go there, etc. This guy thinks he’s creative when stating the obvious. But I have to agree with you: Yet another falsehood perpetuated by the media and non-whites is that all whites are descended from slave owners. My family didn’t even get here until 30+ years after the American civil war ended! White people didn’t enslave blacks. The leadership in Africa sold their own people into slavery. Whites were just their best customers. Hey look! Supply and Demand! Where have we seen that before? Besides, the Jews were slaves, too. Why do people insist on acting as if blacks are the ONLY RACE IN RECORDED HISTORY to have been enslaved? Its just mind boggling…
Try not to be so pretentious…
As a Puerto Rican, I find myself in an odd middle ground in the race debate. I really have no side to pick, but I do believe this site is a total ride on the lol-ler coaster. Keep up the good work!
Oh, and as a native New Yorker, white people sing the praises of NYC because they don’t go to the Bronx (representin’). Just FYI.
couple things about the mid west. it sucks twice over.
the city is in fact better than anything thats out there. No one can tell me london is better. No one can tell me shanghai is better. And certainly no one can tell me the mid west is better.
I see people from the mid west (at least i think they are because they’re just fat and ugly)all the time wearing their blue jeans and sneakers with a baseball hat on. They look awful walking down 5th ave with their fat kids and grand parents. Its hard not to laugh at them when I walk out of my office and all they do is look up to the empire state building and walk into a pole.
I beg to differ that most people don’t have any experience in diversity. There is no way you can tell me that you have more “diversity” in the midwest. Thats just laughable.
Btw, if you’re not toting your gun around, what else do you do out there?
Maybe I’ll peer out the window of my plane when i go to Japan next time and see whats happening down there. oh wait, nothing.
Hot City –
Have you ever been to any Midwestern cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, or St. Louis? I live in Detroit here and I have also been to NY many times. You sound like the kind of white person that loves to talk about diversity, but you would never take the city bus down Holbrook to get to your job at American Axel.
Here’s the thing about New Yorkers. THey love talking about how they are the shit but they have no street smarts whatsoever! Has it occured to you that some people carry guns for personal protection? Not everyone has the privlege of living somewhere where you can feel safe all the time.
What do we do here besides carry guns? Man, you are ignorant, aren’t you. First of all, I bet anything you can do in New York, I can do in Detroit, but for cheaper. We have a very vibrant music scene here, lots of museums, great universities, and lots of lakes if you are into nature. Detroit has a very proud history and a very important place in American history. Perhaps you should see the world Hot City. Not everyone can be like you.
Wow Hot City you are just really incorrect. I hope you are being tounge-in-cheek. Its funny how someone who probably considers himself cosmopolitan can know so little about their own back yard. It just really highlights the holier-than-thou attitudes of people who live in the Northeast.
The Midwest, especially the Rust Belt, has the most diverse middle class in the country. Even the very white flyover, Iowa, took the initiative to nominate Obama.
Gary, IN: 84% Black
Flint, MI: 53% Black
Cleveland: 50% Black
Detroit: 81% Black (Deaborn, a suburb of Detroit, has the largest population of Arabs in the country)
St. Louis: 51% Black
Minneapolis / St. Paul: Huge immigrant population of Hmong, Somalis, and Latinos.
That’s just Black / White diversity. Think about places you probably fly over to get to Japan – like Alaska. Alaska has the highest percentage of Native Americans of any state in the country. Hawaii has more minorities than White people.
“I’m so hood!”
– Young Jeezy
Please just have some common sense here. Most people in this country did not own slaves. That is only a small part of it. For over a century after slavery ended black people lived in an openly racist society, complete with laws that segregated them and treated them differently than the rest of us. White people continue to do better economically because of this legacy. Its nothing you should feel guilty about – this is just the march of history. Like you said, people have been conquered and enslaved all throughout history.
Its funny – you say New York is the center of the universe, but I’m from the Midwest and I know basic US History and you don’t.
My friend Phil lives in Brooklyn and he said its been overrun by rich hipster kids. He said that the Bronx is going the same way. Its like yeah … NY had a cool arts scene way back when it was cheap for artists to live there. Now its just full of yuppies. I swear I’ve seen some of the worst pretentious horrible art in Chelsea galleries. It doesn’t even compare to the stuff I see around Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There you have real serious artists, not some finger painting trustafarian.
No, I beg to differ. It is all about how it is written not about what is written. Also, it is satire. Are you offended–101. LOL
Aww, that takes the fun out of it. Still fun, nonetheless.
while it is much more acceptable to take shots at whiteness then uh uh blackness? he’s talking about a particular Socioeconomic status ( thats a pretty white word) he is also painfully accurate given that the bake sales against bush crowd pretty much makes fun of it self i would like to see someone do this with say middle class black people bad brains ,guinness,white girls,knowing whats best for poor black people, fort greene, etc etc
Who’s sneering?
The “New Yorkers” who you perceive to be obnoxious and self-important are not New Yorkers at all. Most of the time, they are folks from the Midwest who migrate to New York to become fabulous and fantastic.
They use our glorified art deco business district as their playground for obtaining life/professional and social/cultural experience so that when they head home for the holidays, they can discuss their accolades with hometown friends, one up their siblings, and make Ma and Pa proud.
I agree with you-these folks are indeed obnoxious. They absolutely think they understand diversity (because they have the token black friend of course… followed by the token gay friend). I TOO think it’s absurd that these people pay copious amounts of money to live in proximity to the latest organic food joint.
So, what you can do for all of us real New Yorkers is tell your buddies from the Midwest to stay there: tell them to stop driving up the rent and giving us locals a bad rep.
Don’t judge. Not all of us are designer hand bag-toting socialites like you see on E News, and reruns of Sex and the City . Most of us grew up everyday neighborhood kids who enjoy Italian ices, sitting on the porch, Shea Stadium, fireworks on the Fourth O July, and throwing stale bagel remnants at the pigeons.
As for the “gun-toting” thing, guess what…I have a gun too. The only difference is that I keep it for protection, not to hunt game and make venison chili.
i am a native nyer…and i couldn’t wait to get out…and i am happy that i did…even though i miss it…but…………….there is no good pizza. Choices are: Italy/New York.
Whites deserve to live in peace? So the rest of us don’t? Third-world cess-pool? That’s someone’s home your talking about.
I didn’t realize you were being “bombarded”. Hey..sorry for putting you out. BUT…you should probably just kill yourself because with that mindset, someone eventually will….
Nevermind “white”…your just a horrible human being. You make my country look dumb.
UGH I hate ALL Cities.
i love this blog and this book. All you people are so stupid for arguing over whether it is racist or not. this blog is picking out ironic depictions of the way white people in the western world associate with each other and the things they claim to enjoy. Caucasian westerners make up a small percentage of the world but we act as if we are the majority without realizing it. This is targeted at any white middle class citizen and many of the things said are hard to deny. Just laugh about it and find the irony 🙂
new york is gay! atlanta is where its at! again i say it! new york is gay, and it produces the most fags per capita and just sends them to san fransisco
It is true… but remember, Manhattan…LA…New Orleans… any melting pot is seen by many people as interesting, not just white people. I mean, if all of the “people of different ethnicities and cultures” that have a choice didn’t see it as interesting, beautiful, rich in unique/finely made products, music, etc etc too….. wouldn’t they be living in… say… Kansas?
Different cultures/places are interesting. If we were all into our own selves and hometowns… life would be kinda boring, don’t you think?
However, I do get slightly annoyed when people name(or city)-drop for mere attention. Agh. Although I think most people just do it b/c it’s an interesting subject… like the weather, elections, the news.
Either way, humans are curious by nature about things that are different than what they are used to.
This is so true. Manhattan is really just a giant dirty cash register but everyone loves it. I love it too but it is undeniable that every white person I know loves New York. It really does seem like the coolest place, the center of everything, when in reality there is so much more in other cities. And for Runninwolf, who left that horrible comment. Go to hell, not Atlanta, because with that kind of hatred, that’s the only place you belong!
Brooklyn didn’t get its own post? What about “overpaying for Brooklyn real estate”? I wrote a post about that last month, prompted by an NY Times Real Estate section article about a hipster couple that $450k for a 590 square foot apartment, “The Hipster Premium”.
Unreal…isn’t it?
In the famous words of my 90 year old Jewish grandfather who moved from Williamsburg to Florida fifteen years ago:
Poppy: “Take me back there…I want to see it”
Me: It’s supposed to be ‘up and coming’ now.
Poppy: “Nahh…still looks like a shithole to me. Let’s get out of here and grab some fresh Herring”.
The man has spoken!
Unless of course you are actually from New York, then you become God. (I am, and sadly, it’s true when I’m out of the city).
I FUCKING LOVE NEW YORK CITY!
You should. New Yorkers do kind of own 🙂
I wouldn’t mind seeing a couple of the landmarks, etc., that New York has to offer. However, other than that, I could really give a rat’s left testicle about New York. Oh wait, I’m not 100% white. Maybe that’s why? Who knows? Man, I love this list! I’m so glad my hubby introduced me to it. I feel special like I’m a part of some secret society. Sorry if I’m rambling. I have a new baby so I don’t get much entertainment lately!
wake up call! this blog is NOT RACIST. What it does do is generalize about one particular racial group — whites. all in all, if this was a racist blog, it would technically not be one as whites are the highest ranked privilege group in America, if not the world (barring other factors such as one’s sexual orientation, gender, and any other intersectioning trait that would fuel oppression).
there’s my two cents. hope this is helpful for you all! now, don’t go out there again and push different terms onto people without the real knowledge about how our society functions.
i do find it funny how this blog does reinforce a sense of hypocrisy by “oppressing the most privileged group.” quite witty would say…
That’s a lame and ridiculous (also bigoted) thing to say–especially since Atlanta is the southern hub of the gay community. But, you are correct, Atlanta is a very large place with a lot of traffic.
FUNNY ….GAY IS EVERYWHERE…NOT NY AND ATL …THE WHOLE WORLD…THATS BECAUSE U CANT STOP IT….MAMMALS WILL BE MAMMALS….
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.
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.
Regarding the homophobia, that is a really stupid and outdated thing to say. Furthermore, you should correct your spelling and punctuation, lest anyone else who reads your comment prejudges your lack of intelligence: in this case, “it’s” requires an apostrophe because it is a contraction for “it is.” If it were possessive, it would simply be spelled “its.”
I am white, currently live in New York (Manhattan, to be precise), and I love lording it over all my white friends who are non-New Yorkers. My residential status has catapulted me to the top of their ranks!
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am from the MIDWEST and llllooovvveee it!!!!!! :)… I went to NYC to see the Statue of Liberty and Central Park with my uncle, and they were pretty sweet, but the hot dog carts around there didn’t have any good bratwurst like I am used to, haha. I didn’t walk into any light poles when I was there, and I didn’t even where any jeans. Only jean shorts! and now I have a Rolex to where with them that was only fifteen dollars!! You guys do have some good shoping deals in NYC! Gotta stay fresh to represent the MIDWEST – halla!! I had so much fun in NYC and want to move there someday (there must be good bratwurst somewhere, haha). It really is a great place!
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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.
VERY TRUE EMILY!!! KUDOS!!
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.
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.
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
Why do you like Burger King so much!?
Also, “i’m lovin’ it” is the catch phrase of _McDonald’s_.
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!
So, would Queens be considered uncool? And how do white people feel about living in the Bronx?
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.
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…
This is equally true of London. Another white mecca, and also a hugely diverse population. Hence the white love, no doubt.
You are an absolute fucking moron. He was referring to the 70s.
Stop the hatred! As if there was no GLBT community in Atlanta. Just go hang out at Lenox mall or walk around the shops near Piedmont park and you’ll see. Change your bigot attitude or you’ll be leaving Atlanta soon too.
Wow, those actually all sound like great reasons to like a city. Except is there a city in the US that DOESN’T have more white people?
Try Atlanta, Detroit, DC…need I go on?
Unless you’re talking whole metropolitan areas and not just the actual city, then search me…
ugh! Why oh why do white people (or any people for that matter) like Brooklyn? Brooklyn fucking blows!
Because Brooklyn is an amazing, history and cultural filled area? I was born and raised there, then moved to long island three years ago. I have been to various places around the country, to the Caymen Islands and to Cancun, and in the end Brooklyn is still my favirote place in the whole world 0_0
Great article though 😉
Because Brooklyn is an amazing, history and cultural filled area? I was born and raised there, then moved to long island three years ago. I have been to various places around the country, to the Caymen Islands and to Cancun, and in the end Brooklyn is still my favirote place in the whole world 0_0
Replace “Chicago” with “Boston” and you’re onto something.
Ugh no..because they can’t afford to pick up and live wherever they want. There is a reason urban areas are the way they are.
The funniest thing about the little tips on how to fit in with white people, interlaced in the articles is that they will probably work. An the tone of these things cracks me up to. “Since you will be walking all the time, you are outside!”
yeah dan youre a dumbass, also add chicago los angeles philadelphia baltimore DC houston dallas st louis san francisco new orleans, new york.
have you been actually been to an american city?
Except, in this case, a New Yorker can always spot a BullS**er.
They’re too young to remember “Welcome Back Kotter”
Always? Right, I guess Madoff coned only simpletons from Iowa making less than 30k a year. Get off your tiny little island from time to time, and this doesn’t mean just reading the NY Times. There is a whole world out there in addition to New York. By the way, I am a New Yorker, grew up and spent more than half my life here.
I would like to see the west side of Los Angeles added to the STWPL list. It is, IMO, probably the hippest and trendist part of LA, espcially Venice, which is where all the ultra cool white LA hipsters like to either live, hang out and be seen.
I live in LA but in the boring San Fernando Valley because living in Venice is fricking expensive. My wife and frequently go down to Venice to do a little (mostly window) shopping and to eat at one of the chic little Venice neighborhood restaurants, of which there are many.
For a long time it seemed like the in car for the hip west side crowd was a BMW 3 series convertible. Then that was replaced by the Prius. Now that gas prices are lower I am wondering what will succeed the Prius as THE car to be seen in on the west side.
Any New Yorker who asks an out-of-towner “oh, are you from New York?” has been sleepwalking their entire life. “I lived there for three years” still qualifies for transplant/transient status, and that shit needs to gtfo.
yeah, but you don’t own up to it. I won’t say anything about chinatown, but MY neighborhood is basically clean.
get out.
also, Baltimore is horrid
probably something to do with Jews not wanting to be included with whites
also, idk where you’re getting those demographics, since latinos aren’t even included, but my HS was only 13% white.
yeah alright let me just run that by THE ENTIRETY OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS first. “Yuppie” my ass.
I bet anything you’re from SLC or something. calm down on that haterade
yeah go philly, and get robbed instantly.
I have never seen so much crime in nyc as I have seen here in Philadelphia, and I lived in a supposedly ~*bad*~ area of Brooklyn (aka non-gentrified)
I can’t speak for Baltimore but Philly is a cesspool of shit.
i’m surprised you came all the way up to 96th st, i thought the uws was “too far” for you gotdamn brooklynites.
WOW. Stop right there.
well then, you enjoy your watered-down suburban existence.
Please never, ever come back to our city.
You talk about how New Yorkers “sneer at all the Midwestern people,” and then you sneer first at us, when most of us are just trying to get by, not “doing ridiculous things.” You can’t understand a native New Yorker’s life by “picking up” the NY Times, and I suggest you never, ever post to the internet again, either. “Educated?” Please. Keep your Midwestern transplants away from our city.
I can smell your jealousy from here.
Alright, let’s do this comment thing one more time. *cracks knuckles*
People who go out of their way to call NYC overrated are just scrambling to get on another trendwagon, to seem like they’re “above” getting excited about a city. Sorry, guys, but your jealousy is showing like a hooker’s thong.
And to say that NYC has an “inferiority complex” because we have sky scrapers? Do you think natives LIKE seeing that shit, those eyesores like the one at Astor Place, or hell, the one that just recently went up RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME? The people who decide for these things to be built have nothing to do with the actual city, and honestly don’t give a shit about the city. Whoever you are, you’re an insecure and pretentious asshole. I personally like Boston as a city, but if Bostonians like you go out of their way to wage war on other cities out of their own inferiority complex, then I’m going to end up thinking less of your city, and you’ve only done yourself a disfavor. Good one, Goyle.
And finally, to say that a show like “The Real Housewives of New York” encapsulates my existence as a real live native New Yorker–the ignorance! The high insult! Wealth? Might you be referring to the privileged 1%? Wealth is something that eludes a great portion of native New Yorkers, and therefore, we can hardly flaunt it.
You’re an idiot, you’re jealous, you’re insecure, and you’ve clearly never stepped foot in real New York. I hope, for our sake, that you never do.
great job completely misreading that part.
Scared shitless at The Bronx still.
didn’t terrorists fuck that place up?
seattle, washington and portland, oregon are the whitest places in the world.
Only half your life? How very Albany of you..
Brooklyn is kinda awesome now. I remember Welcome Back Kotter (thankyouverymuch) but that Brooklyn isn’t Brooklyn now. I’ve lived here 5 years.
It kicks the shit out of Queens, too.
And you have no idea how white people drool about living in New York City. It is definitely funny. Even my slightly hick-like relatives get all impressed and boast about me living here.
Why do New Yorkers think they are so special and awesome? Like when they see something weird they say “Only in New York!”
Or they love to make fun of midwesterners from “flyover country.” Let me tell you I have been to New York and it isn’t as “real” as yall think it is. Its like if you aren’t from the east or west coast you are an uncultured hick.
they only think that because it’s true. hick.
Ok, Brooklyn has SOME cool things about it, but it’s still ghetto as hell in a lot of places. I actually I do have an idea about how people react to New York as I live here. And WHAT!? Queens is aweseome! Go to Astoria right now. Queens is like Brooklyn minus all the f-ing hipsters and crackheads.
Crap. I meant to say, do not go to Queens for any reason. You and your friends just stay put in williamsburg and bushwick….it’s very very boring in queens.
Because most people do take pride in where they come from. And also because Ny is great. If you don’t like it fine, but don’t be paranoid.
OH, and I doubt it was “real” for you since you were a TOURIST. Most people who visit a place, especially as large as Ny, barely get to tap the surface. Or I guess you think going to see The Lion King in Times Square is how most New Yorkers spend their daily lives?
Hey lou why don’t you get off your trustafarian playground and become a tourist in the Midwest? Or I guess you think we all grow corn in our daily lives.
How about this. . . take the greyhound to Detroit and take a walk around. Come on – you are a tough gritty New Yorker, right? If you can make it in New York you can make it anywhere.
Or you can do what a lot of broke midwestern hicks do – enlist in the service. Take two tours and then come back and tell me what’s real.
OMG! It is true! They weren’t making money off their crappy art their parents were paying the rent!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/nyregion/08trustafarians.html?_r=2
I think the word you are looking for is “smug,” and it is pretty much the point of this blog. White people have a problem with snobbery, and they tend to gravitate towards expensive places with lots of other whites like NYC. It is only natural that they would look down on the rest of the country.
Most real New Yorkers do not have this superiority complex. As mentioned earlier in the comments, it tends to be the one with family money who have something to prove.
I like you, I like your point. You have spunk 🙂
You tell em’ !
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS!
White people love Harlem. They can be at one with Black people.
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If you really wanna see the difference just get on N,R,W train and ride from downtown brooklyn to all the way last stop of queens. You’ll see the changes of people getting in and out of the train.. right at 59 street / lex all the white people get off (you can tell that they are not native new yorkers) and the others get in the train.. (true hard working new yorkers) you will see some whites still sitting but they’ll get off around steinway steet (hahaha they found out that rent is cheaper in queens than manhattan so they now started taking over astoria too)
you will see the same thing going towards brooklyn… the deeper you go the more you’ll see the true new yorkers…
I worked at wall street for years and most of the people in my office lived in Manhattan.. ironically they have been in NYC for only couple of years moved from other states or other countries (not like hard working people who come to US from other countries for opportunities. they were paid by their companies to live in the US and Manhattan)
These so called New yorkers never leave Manhattan and make fun of people living in Brooklyn and Queens… they are literally scared to walk on the streets of queens or Brooklyn. (bunch of pussies)
They will go see US open in flushing but will not live there… they will go see a mets game with a native new yorker buddy who will take them to Shea stadium. but then talk down about queens or brooklyn…
These people should be slapped immediately when they say that they are new yorkers..
It’s funny how you talk about Manhattan like Washington Heights and Harlem don’t exist.
I’m one of those white people that ‘has spent a lot of time in New York’, mostly Manhattan, and I’m amazed at how few black people I see on the streets. Yes, I know there are tons of black people in Harlem, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx but I’m talking about Manhattan. So many white people. The first time I visited was in 88. I’m one of those white people with money. I’m able to hang out with my other white friends with money and stay for several weeks at a time. The city back then was harsh. I loved it. It now has this Crate and Barrell feel to it. Being a hip white person with money, I hate that shit.
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I asked the highest ranking white person in the room, they said “No, I’m not. I’ve never actually been there.” Then they began to stammer.
People got annoyed with me for embarrassing the Alpha White Person. Any advice?
Congratulations, you the man now dog. i.e. you have assumed the alpha role.
awww you’re the best!
It’s laughable how ignorant many New Yorkers are. They firmly believe there is nothing between New York and LA. Sorry friends, there is civilization out there. Crazy idea, I know. Worse than people actually from Manhattan are the people from the suburbs. They get the most idiotically defensive about “the city.”
It’s not that white people love Manhattan. It’s that White New Yorkers love Manhattan. So, so much.
haha it’s also funny how he talks about how “real” and “hard-working” brooklyn is without mentioning white-person-mecca: williamsburg, park slope, and brooklyn heights
Instead of taking a cab between your hotell at Times Square and the Meatpacking district, and instead of then walking down through the west village to Soho, try to visit other parts of town and you shall se that it is just as diverse as in your dreams.
What religion are you? Oh, didnt see that. Forget it.
Dumbass, Harlem IS Manhattan–I hate ignorant statements like that. if Harlem isn’t Manhattan then guess what, Colubmia University isn’t in NYC…dumbass. And I’m black (if you haven’t guessed) and I live in the LES (if you don’t know what that stands for I wouldn’t be surprised) and there’s tons of blacks and whites but mostly Asians. Woah, your ignorance astounds me.
HAHA, I’m an alphabet city girl m’self. There used to be so many more Black and Latino people here, but now because of Gentrification (tingles huh guys) not so much anymore. NYU has taken over. But it’s ok, because I spend my time trying to make them feel uncomfortable. Hopefully, they’ll get terrified and move out. That’d be a good day, and I’d be able to afford to continue to live forever in a neighborhood people of color were forced into anyway.
I think we can safely assume by this comment that a sense of humor is not something that black people like. Lighten up with the whining.
Several years into residence on the UWS, I was still answering, “Pittsburgh” when asked where I was from, traveling around that area West of the Hudson.
Sure it’s annoying when you know nothing about team sports- that you’re in the playoffs, that your congressman is America’s biggest Nazi; but you get bigger, fattier portions at redneck lunch counters, folks assume you’re a fellow crank abusing wet-brain bigot with COPD and spirochetes cork screwing through your pre-mandibular forebrain bundle…
Even WITH Cash Cab, 9/11 and The Sopranos (most REAL ‘Merikans don’t know NJ ain’t on Manhattan Island), once you actually fess up, or slip-up about alternate side parking or a Zabar receipt falls from your BDUs, suddenly the peckerwood lady who looks just like Herman Goering stops scooping the huge gobs of etouffe over your dirty rice… “Cletus, this heah Yan-KEE dun kilt r’baby JEE-SUSSSSSSSSsssssssssss!
I would rather drink my own urine than go anywhere near NYC. That place is absolutely terrible in every way possible.
Funny thing- visited NYC in April of this month. Got incredibly sick, so got some tea from Starbucks while waiting for my mother and sister to arrive from Ohio, where they were driving from. Some middle-aged white woman asked to share the table with me while she waited for her hip friend who reviewed restaurants with a camera. I told her who I was waiting for, and smiled while she replied “Oh, that’s going to be a lot of fun- *snirk* don’t let them hurt their necks looking up at the big buildings.”
From that moment on, possibly as a side-effect of my swine-flu like symptoms, NYC took on an incredibly offense tone with me. I used to love it- MOMA, Soho, MTA, all that shit. Instead, I saw it for what it was – a swarm of tourists all flocking around trying to “experience” NYC while the residents bustled hurriedly around and through them, looking painfully important and busy. I realized how much it would suck to live there- having to constantly put up with tourists, and winter, and the reverse -how much you miss trying to be a tourist.
I will never again be heaping accolades upon NYC. It is over-crowded, expensive, over-hyped, and a waste of time in comparison to “second-class” cities such as Cleveland, Toronto, Tucson, Berkeley- all places I have had the great opportunity to live. Besides, the girls in Tucson and Berkeley are copious, quirky, and beautiful (and asian in the latter destination.)
I’ve never been to manhattan but my family owns a deed passed down from many generations from a certain duchess which gives our family the inherited ownership of the island. We are building our case and will take it to trial eventually, so enjoy it while you can, fucking trespassers!
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on trips to New York.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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Reading this just makes me think about the dancer girls I have on my facebook who make the occasional long trip to ny for dance and make sure they let everyone know they’re there by dropping down key NY words:
ex. Yea I was outside for like 3 hours in Central Park but I didn’t tan for some reason.
ex. I went to SoHo but I didnt buy anything.
Apparently being an oblivious tourist is all the rage. I believe the fact that they told me they went to Brooklyn but had no idea what part when I asked them accurately displays what kind of people they are. I appologize for my rant haha, my current young generation just pisses me off
i agree i hate NYC.
Keep living in your hole
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Manhattan is where the action is in NY City, the high-rise buildings, heavy road traffic and the hustle-and-bustle is what makes a city “tick”. But for me and many other white people: cities are crowded, polluted, expensive, stressful & anonymous. This is why most people in general live in small towns, medium-sized cities and the suburbs (Brooklyn with Queens are one of the first modern suburbs) you rich white people call “blend-boring-macabre-ordinary-soulless”. The south Bronx and Staten Island are being checked as the “other Manhattans” because Manhattan is being used up, and the moneyed whites want to experience a “different culture” usually move into…Harlem. +
Are these other four cities trendy for white people to live in or they were 5 or 10 years ago? Cleveland is right inside the rust belt (nearing 20% unemployment in some areas), Tucson has been beat by the real estate bubble burst, Toronto is viewed by Canadians as the failed welfare state and Berkeley is filled with druggies since it’s near Oakland. The swine flu came from “Mexicans” the same way AIDS is from Africans or Haitians, SARS is from Chinese or Asians, and the next superfatal exotic tropical virus to hit white people without immunity. The Muslim terrorist groups are in Iran concocting the next smallpox pandemic, worst kind than the one wiped out 98% of American Indians in the 1500’s brought over by accident by (guilt) white men. +
Pittsburgh is Detroit 2.0 with a whiter, brighter German face. I always assumed Pittsburgh is Philly 2.0 with a fatter, poorer image (and prouder of it). How about the Steelers? Super bowl XLIV is coming, and the Eagles may show up. The Pirates will kick Phillies’ butt in the NLCS. And when the Penguins and Flyers meet in the stanley cup depends on the conference format. One problem is the 76ers NBA title can’t involve a Pittsburgh team (is there a ABA team?) +
… and who knows, I may be part-Jewish too. (the next white person claim to be descendant of disposed royality of another race trend). Janice Dickinson switched 20 ethnic groups already, she tries to be like Cher or Madonna with this “I’m part Japanese/Cherokee/Spanish/Armenian” thing. I believe all three of them are part-, ex-, or turned Jewish. +
LES stands for “Lower east Side” not the UES story location (the Upper west side the Sharks and Jets like a sports team rivalry). The whites replaced the Chinese whom replaced the Puerto Ricans whom replaced the Black Americans whom replaced the Jews whom replaced the Italians whom replaced the Irish whom replaced the English whom replaced the Dutch whom replaced the Lenape Indians. There you go, the history of the LES in a couple of seconds. +
I predict in 2500 AD that a great NA NDN (Native American/ Indian) city shall arise from the ruins of an ancient early American civilization. I’m not a member of the AIM (the Red man’s movement), Causa La Raza, the Black Nation of Islam or the LDS (Mormon) church…I have a lil’ bit of E.S.P.
Back on topic, It would suck for anyone having to move not only your neighborhood is falling apart or everyone around you left to avoid the hard-core druggies, welfare cheats, gang bangers, convict felon parolees and beggars came by to live near you, it’s the other way around: they got money and as a result, your home prices shoot up the roof. It’s much worse to rent an apartment in gentrificating areas and a large percentage of “inner city” reisdents fall in this category, therefore are deeply affected to be displaced. +
Brooklyn would love to have the Dodgers back, since the L.A. area lost 2 NFL teams (one moved back to Oakland), the Clippers could head to New Jersey when the Nets go to a new NYC arena, and California with Arizona may lose its NHL teams (white people love hockey you know, less white people around, ice hockey fails). Great place for soccer is L.A. due to the Hispanic culture, it brought David Beckham. The N.Y. Cosmos based in Long Island had Pele in 1975, that other island is more ethnically diverse and same is true for the N.Y. Red Bulls in today’s MLS in northern New Jersey. +
Harlem is regentrified alright, wealthy blacks are the main group in Harlem the first time since the early 1930’s at the height of the “Harlem renaissiance”, when it was the hub of black/Afro-American culture (at least I didn’t say “Negro”). The 106th St./Park Ave. intersection has recovered in 10 years from 1992 after a riot broke out during the Democrat party convention held there, to the post 9-11 NY city pride of where Harlem has changed. Former president Bill Clinton has an apartment in Harlem, and Rudy Giuliani who cleaned out 42nd West (now called Disney Square) could be thanked, except his 8-year term as mayor involved tougher policing and racial incidents: one cause when an African immigrant was killed when he pulled his wallet, the white police officers thought it was gonna be a gun or pistol. +
Last post, I’m heading back home to Palm Springs, Cal. the ex-New Yorkers, along with ex-L.A. people, O.C. people, San Diego people, San Francisco Bay area folks, Canadians and people from all over the Northwest (ex-Californians with second homes in the winter), white people wouldn’t leave the village of Palm Springs alone either. It’s gayer to have a “white party” every Nov. with 50,000 guests from around the world, mainly homosexual men are everywhere. Btw, most of the relocated New Yorkers here in the other coast are stereotypically Italian, Irish, Polish, Puerto Rican and (gasp) Jewish. The Palm Springs area is becoming more of a second Florida, also a place where older people of all races go to, Palm Springs is “heaven’s waiting room”.+
But yuppies love Chicago! Say hi to Marcy D’arcy for me, the nosy snotty yuppie neighbor on “married with children” and Al Bundy’s mortal enemy: Marcy is a radical feminist, a snob, neo-con and yuppie found someone to poke fun of. +
Trolls are a race of people finds a way to magically appear on the internet to cause problems, unfortunately anyone is accused of “trolling” in one time or another (that’ll be me). Hi, I’m Michael…and I’m…I’m a “troll” (cries for attention). We should complete a 12-step program to stop trolling. +
No, we have Pitt Basketball. That’s our team (and by “our” I mean a Pittsburgh native living in NYC, yet still calling the Burgh home).
Harlem is in Manhattan. . . You might want to try a neighborhood other than the Upper East Side next time you go. 🙂
Everyone seems to hate Manhattan, but love Brooklyn and gotta have that borough pride. Whether it’s the 212, 718 or 917 (area code shout outs), be proud of where you’re from. Brooklynese, the “Kings” of Queens, and on the “six” to the Bronx are notably proud of where they come from, born or raised, and most of all where they (or used to) live. +
Tough luck! It’s called adverse possession. White people love the law.
I’m from Australia…
That’s right I said it.
White people love australians, especially americans, bow down to me minions…
This piece is cool. But this new york love disease is been spread to everyone, not only whites:) I am a Chinese, NY bred, another Chinese considered me American, or Banana, I find that I love New York, and I never met anyone don’t like NY, even people never been to NY, love NY.
Who would go to Boston?! $20 Chinatown bus to hell?!:)
Now way, even Boston people love NY.
look everyone, a message from the early 90s!
“I know this great Italian place” is the best way to describe Brooklyn is full of them…you know…ethnic looking people, had names end in vowels and their obsessively large clannish families are mafia syndicates? Italians are the Puerto Ricans of yesterday, since I heard comments on the Jews are the most hated “race” except for black people. +
LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!
This pisses me off. I’m from New York. Not! however, that 8 million+ population, tax-sucking hell-hole. I’m from the other part of the state. The part people don’t think of when you say your from New York. The part where trees aren’t imported…
And I don’t mean Yonkers, dumbfucks.
If I had a penny for every time I said I’m from New York, and someone thought I meant that damned city, I’d be rich.
If I had a nickel for every time I told a person from the City I’m from Upstate, and they thought I meant Poughkeepsie, I’d be a motherfucking millionaire.
A person from the city thinks Upstate starts the moment you cross north of the damn Cross Bronx Expressway. Idiots.
PS-
You wouldn’t know snow if it slapped you across the face. Blizzard of ’93? Kiss my ass.
You get a foot of snow and call it the Storm of the Century. We get that kind of snow for four goddamned months up here.
Bah. New York State?
Long Island is practically a suburb of that City. Might as well be a borough.
And like that city, it sucks up the taxes the other 8 million residents of this State pay for various bullshit projects proposed by the myriad NYC Representatives in Albany. I don’t pay taxes for a fucking repaving of the VN bridge. People in Watertown, Old Forge, Oswego, fuck even Rochester and Buffalo shouldn’t watch their money get sucked into those glass canyons.
The rest of the state is dying thanks to all our money being funneled into Downstate. I’d love to see NYC and Long Island secede from New York State to form their own bloody state. Save the rest of us the cash it costs to support you.
To Syracuse: where are you from?
Hey! Do you have a webcam?
He’s from Syracuse, obviously. I used to live in Kingston, an hour northwest of Poughkeepsie. Honestly, I would call Poughkeepsie upstate. It is outside of the New York metro area, but in New York state, and is thus a part of upstate New York.
However, it is true that Yonkers is not upstate. And yes, everyone seems to think that New York is all NYC. Not just foreigners, even Americans themselves.
Tax sucking? Are you kidding me? You upstate riff raff are the ones sucking our taxes. NY County (Manhattan) pays far more in taxes than anywhere else in NY state. The city, Long Island and Westchester should secede from upstate and form our own state….you can have Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse and whatever else is up there. That’s just my two cents.
outside of NYC, all the rest is a wasteland of a state, being supported by the 10 million NYC dwelling tax payers.
Go Yankees!
Well, maybe thats because the rest of New York State is a piece of monkey shit and doesnt deserve any recognition. What good does the rest of the state do? I know the capital is in Albany, but that just seems stupid. Honestly, anyone who enjoys living in those parts is either delusional or retarded. Or a delusional retard.
LA
Joe Momma, please don’t get upset, but there’re about ten million “non-natives” living in the suburbs around NYC nowadays, who commute to manhattan to work white colar jobs, and wouldn’t you know, these are the same people whose parents and grandparents BUILT those houses and schools in the parts of Queens you’re talking about. And you can thank them that they weren’t built like sh*t back then, and aren’t falling down, as long as their maintained by their occupants
I was born there(HA Im the coolest now!) And I personally love It
ps Im not white either 1/2 mexica and the other half cuban and panamanian
Fuck off troll!
u shouldn’t have chosen to live in a state that contains the largest city in america with the same name if that makes u so upset.
I’m from New York, I’m white, and Manhattan and the white part of Brooklyn suck. I hate the mayor and the city council is weak. The MTA sucks and the way people are treated in communities of color suck (like everywhere in America.) There are interesting people and culture, but its not where many white people are found.
Are you nuts? New Yorkers of any color (especially the white ones) are all secretly jealous of LOS ANGELES, the real capitol of America culture. If you have any shread of being hip, just say your moving to Los Angeles very soon.
Get fat in Baltimore and free up your apartment for someone who needs it.
Amen. too many self-loathing people from baltimore slamming NYC on this blog
You fail. Chicago has a miserable 3rd city complex.
agreed
Enjoy Kansas loser.
This is true
Enjoy your 5 hour bus ride
hahahaha
miserable inferiority complex…what a miserable life you have.
yikes, your comment is too sad to insult…
hahaha
scott…you haven’t been to the real ny…oh scott, it’s sad to tell you, the empire state building and times square aren’t the real ny
Surprised by the jealousy by people in 2nd and 3rd rate cities. To say that detroit and phoenix are better than nyc is, at least, joke and, at most, a questionable delusion. The people who write that know it.
The tourists who pissed over NYC on this blog ONLY visit times square and the statue of liberty and then complain that NYC is not “happening” (literally said 3 times on this blog). pathetic.
nyc’s better without you…please don’t visit
your name is cubicle cowboy. what a dumb name. lol.
I love this board. I love the racism. DANCE PUPPETS DANCE!
Oh thank god someone on this board has a brain! thank you Jason!
tax hole…? more like we pay all the taxes for the whole fcking state. fck off, hick.
Yeah!! because the east coast doesn’t have any fatass loudmouth wannabe city dwellers with terrible accents. Right on! Keep acting all new yorky you transplants, it’s real cute.
No way! When I think of LA, i think of a big, wide, open, dusty, polluted gray box of shallow nothingness.
well, ur thinking of east side durring the early morning.
the ACTUAL LA is wayyy betta.
WAY, WAY, betta than wherever ur from.
i know, cuz i cuzn lives there and i go like every summer + christmas
Bottom line: Everyone really is jealous of LA. LA is like the perfect city. The weather, the culture, the night life, the beaches, UCLA, USC, the Getty, the food, the shopping. It has lower taxes, better roads, nicer people, than New York at least, its more avant garde and liberal, there is more social progress in the state. New York has nothing on LA. Im so glad my family moved here after 15 years of New York winters alone, not to mention the high taxes, the humid summers, the congested streets, the toll roads and turnpikes, the filthy MTA, and the hicks from upstate. As an ex-New Yorker, I do admit to initially hating LA, that is until we moved here and I got to give it a chance. I would never consider moving back. New York is shit compared to LA. Im actually quiet glad people hate LA; they can stay in New York and freeze their ass off for all I care.
I was born in Brooklyn and have always love Brooklyn.NYC is overdone now if you know what i mean i like the ‘old fashion’ new york better,because now you can go to new york and find everything you find in anyother town just with more people, but Brooklyn is its own little city itself i guess you can say its wonderful and the people who say LA is better…umm…ewww LA is where all the wanna bes go that think that their going to have a big success in life but really there just losers…..and thats sad ='(….GO BROOKLYN!!!! =D
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I feel that I must point out that this post undoubtedly speaks to the authenticity of what the author of SWPL is referring to. This particular white person obviously is a trend setter and is making the move from one “overdone” white person favorite towards a more specific, but completely different, subset. Way to go white person! It’s white people like you that will no doubt keep the other, more closed minded, lemmings on their toes. So I tip my hat, by which I mean my North Face beanie, and say…… Bravo!
WOW white person! Kudos on taking the, not so evident, opportunity to grossly impose your obviously expensive “political science” degree on the rest of the internet. This shows the innate ability of white people to sniff out the most basic of statements and over think them. I must say I am especially impressed on how you were able to include 7 countries and at least 2 religions in your barrage of run on sentences. Michael I think I speak for all white people when I say, “thanks man, you make us proud.”
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:3 Well, I win the worst winter contest, because I’m from Saskatchewan (which is a province in Canada, for all of you idiots out there). It lasts about 6 months, and can get down to about -50c (-58f) in the middle of it. What’s sad is, that’s not even me being sarcastic- it’s the truth. OTL
L.A. is a shit hole.
Go Queens!
I don’t think the through and through white person would be too into Brooklyn. There are some rich parts and it does have the Brooklyn Museum which is huge, but they’d be scared to cross the river, venturing so far from midtown.
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I consider myself white–and I looooathe NY. Brooklyn’s dandy. Manhattan–no thank you.
Awesome post!
-not a native but we dated for a decade or so
Agree with rilkesgranddaughter. I like Queens and Brooklyn but the snobbiness of Manhattan can get to be a bit much.
I live in the Manhattan area. It’s beautiful, and great advice that you placed up there.
I don’t like New York either I have lived there, Miami Beach, Stamford Connecticut, Newport Beach and Portland Oregon.
I’ve been to L.A. many times on business and I finds it to be too hot, smoggy, flat and ugly not to mention populated by shallow pretentious jack offs who think that they are God’s gift to humanity, but that is good, to each his own. If everybody loved L.A. like you do it would be overcrowded and the traffic would be horrendous. Then it would be a real shit-hole.
I disagree, In my experience both New Yorkers and L.A.otians or whatever the hell you people are called are too self-absorbed to be jealous of anyone else’s city.
People from both those cities have a tendency to go on ad nauseum about how their city is better than anyone else’s. That’s great just stay there.
Thats the nice way to put it.
This is complete crap. White people do not universally love NY. Go around Boston or Philly (particularly Philly) and ask people what they think of NY. Better yet, go around shouting how much you love the Rangers/Giants/Yankees. If you aren’t verbally torn down to nothingness it’s probably because you are in the hospital or police station because you’ve been assaulted. NY sucks.
An ex-New Yorkaise (Manhattan — never Brooklyn — Too much American Apparel. Lived there 5 years, rounded up) now living in Portland, standing up to be counted. Does this mean I am the most important white person in the room? Certainly the most deliberate and artful when I drop that I lived in NYC for 5 years (rounded up) in casual conversation. It’s never “I’m from Des Moines.” Nope. It’s “Weeelllllll, I was living in New York for about 5 years, then I came out here. Blah blah blah…” But people are invariably fascinated, and a bit put-off, in a small way, at my pretension. It’s veeerryy important they know I’m sort of from New York.
So, how do I get the NYC cred without seeming like a douche? Ideas?
Just got back from visiting Boston for the weekend and my views on how much Boston fucking blowz were officially reaffirmed. And Philly? Come on, man….take both of your weak excuses for cities and shove it – we all know that it doesn’t get better than NYC.
I’m a born and raised New Yorker, best city on earth in my opinion. I’m not white but I’ve got a question for all of you, why on earth do you all seem to think *especially the non-native NYers* That the city begins and ends with Manhattan, and now Brooklyn. Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx exist too you know. I’m a Bronxite.
thats not perticuarly true! im very white and sometimes i wish that if 911 had to happen that would be in manhattan! i dont even know why!
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you sir, are an @ss. Sincerely from all NY’ers.
Yes, yes he is.
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Haha really fun post title, I’m white. I really think you post was head on, we do think being form NYC means your cultured and interesting.
Telling people you’re heading out to the Hamptons for the weekend never hurts either. Of course truth of the matter is it’s all so very pretentious at the end of the day.
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Then you must not have been to Brooklyn. Check out them Park Slope white folks. They are the quintessential Brooklyn-loving white folks… it’s so easy to see through their “We’re down with diversity” smoke and mirrors talk meanwhile they are so stuck in their “whiteness”. Trying to take BK back on the downlow…..ha ha.
You’re polite for a New Yorker. My first instinct was to say, f@ck you buddy.
QUEEENSSS!!!
I was raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn – I’m like the holy grail!
I’m not rich.. i don’t think i ever want to be
I am white and I really don’t like New York. That much concrete in one place is just too much.
(Making clever statements about things I dont like? I must be white.)
Dude you’re a terrible human being…
…the manhattan “area”?
i was under the impression it was called a borough, but apparently not
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LOL… I know a girl who is ALWAYS talking about NY.. she has been to Ny about 20 times, Roots for NY anytime there is a sporting event that includes them, Was obsessed with the Alicia keys/jay Z song.. and lets us know that anythign that we like that isn’t from NY or related to it.. pretty much sucks. Did I mention she was born and raised in Houston? LMAO
You’re not sort of from New York if you lived here for five years. You’re sort of from Des Moines. I’ve lived here for thirty-five years; I’m from New York.
LMAO! This is so true!! NYC Is the sh.i.t!! That’s why everybody hates New Yorkers, because we are the only people & city that matter!!
JB, you are a jealous c.oc.k suck.ing @$$hole! You wish you could say you were from NYC!! But we don’t have trailer parks in NYC!! So mommy and daddy couldn’t afford to live here!!
Person, I could not have said it better myself!! Kudos!! You hit it right on the head!!
Oh no this is sooo me!!
I’ve lived been a resident of 10 states, and have visited 300+ towns and cites in 2 countries to include NYC. All cities are the same: smelly, dirty, the people are ego-centric and rude. City dwellers are merely human animals living in herds, not real people.
dude. that was not a clever statement
As a city-dweller, I must very respectfully tell you, good sir, that you are both wrong and an egocentric idiot. I will now direct you to an XKCD comic expressing your sentiment: http://xkcd.com/610/
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ from Brooklyn) and must admit, it’s super funny as well.
@George Soros- then why do all the most talented, creative, wealthy, interesting, and intelligent “human animals” gravitate toward the cities, and all the backward-thinking, conservative, uneducated, hypocritical, sanctimonious assholes like yourself live in little towns and constantly talk about all the “real people” that live there?
Jason, there are new yorkers that love to sit around and check out how great their own farts smell as well. I love how new yorkers think what they apply to new york can apply to the rest of the world.
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LOL! All this talk about white people and its negativity! I feel like we’re discussing some kind of alien race or something.
First of all, for those who speak negatively about white people have you any idea what exactly is a white person? If you ask someone what is a white person their answer would be derived from a bunch of stereotypes about what a white person is. I’ve never seen a person ever give a scientific answer to what a white person really is.
I live in New York my whole life and I frequent a lot in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Why? Because I live in Brooklyn and study in Manhattan. It surprises me the hostility of people who are not from New York. Why bad mouth us? I believe every city, state, country have something to offer regardless of any negativeness.
These white people as you call them are human beings, if they succeeded in life and don’t have to go on Welfare…well goody! Go to school and get an associate degree, bachelor degree, or MDs and PhDs…then you’ll be somebody. I would like to ask a question….would it bother you if the people who come from the same origins as you succeed? Stop criticizing white people.
I’ve been to Manhattan and seen these white people according to the definition in here which is white and upper class. These are the nicest people I’ve ever seen. They may have upper class jobs and dress nicely but they aren’t snobs at least the majority aren’t. I’ve worked at a fast food before, and the loads of upper class “whites” frequenting there was constant and they would always make conversations with me. Instead of just taking their food and walking away with their nose held high, they would stop, smile and ask me how am I doing. If white people were snobs, wouldn’t they just walk away and give me a dirty look?
Now about whites who aren’t upper class and are middle-class….accusing whites of snobbery is senseless. Everyone regardless of country they came from acted like a snob at one point or another.
Let everyone be who they want to be, if that means being a snob, being a green alien with green skin, or just a plain nerd, whatever that’s their life. And if we non-white choose to act one way or another, then so be it this is our life as well.
Mate, it’s just a joke. Have you never told a joke about someone else’s race in your entire life?
Christ, this guy must be a blast at a comedy club, its a joke dick…I live in NYC too, all my life and hate to break it to you…there are A SHIT TON of assholes here…esp since white people aren’t afraid to go to red hook, williamsburg, Dumbo just used to be an underpass to get a bj from a tranny and score a rock….so shut up and laugh…or don’t and die miserable and alone while smiling cause you’re being burried in a ‘natural’ coffin that will biodecinigrate in 5 years…you’re a tool.
ha! It is soo true.
I have a boyfriend in NY and I can not go anwhere with him
without people going…uh, ah – I will visit you soon.
It is soooooo annoying.
Even my girlfriends walk all over me because
they want to hang out in his apartment.
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“I’ve been to Manhattan and seen these white people according to the definition in here which is white and upper class. These are the nicest people I’ve ever seen. ”
Then you must not travel outside NYC much if you call they’re the nicest people. {sarcasm ahead} Oh Goodness, New Yorkers are SO misunderstood.
Because that where the jobs are you fucking idiot.
It’s overrated. Deal with it.
“I grew up in northern rural Canada and find NYers to be about the friendliest and most cooperative people I’ve ever lived around (not having cars helps with this).”
You’re full of shit.
So everything is the Midwest’s faults? Most Midwest hipster flock to Chicago so I’m not sure where you get your statement about Midwest hipsters ruining the “nice image” of “real” NYers.
You do you know that Lake Michigan is pretty damn huge. Of course that NYU education probably taught you it was the size of lake you’d find at a summer camp.
LOL. Newsflash the entire world can’t even name the other four boroughs so blame it on the media for pimping out a city so much that it becomes overrated. You think a kid from LA knows that Staten Island and Queens are NYC boroughs? Doubt it. They probably think Queens is IN Manhattan.
“you’re all either racist or filled with hatred and nothing more.”
That hatred comes from somewhere and if people followed your advice then they become pushovers. NYC has fucked up the nation more than once so be the “nice” NYer and try to understand that resentment isn’t unusual for NYC. It’s expected.
“Like the person from Brooklyn said, I’ve never met a NYer who talks about how much they “hate” (or even dislike) Chicago or Boston. What’s the point in that? So silly, really”
Because A) they’re too busy trying not drown in the rat race that is NYC and B) they’re too busy to actually look in the mirror and reflect on how the rest of America sees hipster/yuppie NYers.
But you never actually made a point. You just said a declarative statement without backing it up. So it kinda proved the Random Dude’s point.
“Our city will kick your city’s ass”
With what? Attitude and having a NYC address.
Funny you say that because most tourists that go to NYC are foreigners (read: not from the USA). Your generalization of Midwesterners is the reason why Midwesterners have a bone to pick with people like you. Of course you must let the world know that your from “the city” hence your screen name.
I doubt you were raised in Dayton, OH and just looking for a post to sh*t on the city to rally people to back you up (you’ve succeeded and they too show their ignorance and neatly fills in the “NYers are condescending” attitude – weren’t some pro-NYers saying NYers are the nicest people? Huh.).
You know how I know your post is full of sh*t? Because you just listed all the stereotypes that condescending coasters make of the Midwest and all the activities you’ve mentioned the city of Dayton not supporting, they actually have. Dayton DOES have a ballet, an art museum, an opera: You just ratted yourself out because you act like Dayton is some small town in the cornfields.
List your post on citydata.com and see it be torn to pieces by both people who live in Dayton. NYC supports the arts because it brings the city money and attracts the tourists. Not only that but because Manhattan has almost 2MILL people living in it – that means there is a percent that will want those cultural activities you’ve listed because there’s about 2 freakin’ MILL people.
Lolz, you just spent the last hour essentially screaming into cyberspace and judging by the lack of responses no one cares. Well done bro.
You should probably tell that to BeliTsai because his/her comment was more “hole” like.
Considering the last comment, besides mine was dated Sept. 1st, I don’t feel too bad. I also don’t think my defensive responses are “screaming” – unless you count wasting an hour as “screaming” then I’m not sure where you put other posters who responded to others. Are their posts more fruitful and non vain then mine? Yea, didn’t think so.
September 1st… I didn’t even realize that, so you posted six times berating people who hadn’t even looked at this for a month, gotcha. Were there more vain posts yeah, were six vain posts by one person in a row…
Yea, so what? If the posters respond then so be it. If they don’t, they don’t. It’s not a big deal. All I wanted was to voice my opinion.
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Look at all these NYC homers. Geez. Quite the opposite of educated, worldly, and open minded. One funny thing people say about The City – “If you can here you can make it anywhere.” Maybe. But one thing is more true : those who drank the NYC Kool-Aid seem lost in almost any other US city or town. Literally. In exchange for adaptability you get arrogance and tunnel vision. How charming.
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John you are seriously a D bag. But I thank you for being such a D bag on this thread because people like you make me LOVE being a New Yorker. Some of us are definitely bigger assholes than others (I admit I am probably on the upper end of assholery), but you prove that it isn’t just us. Thanks.
So I’m a bigger D bag because I respond to people who I don’t agree with? You are aware that the “more hate the city gets the more I love it” is so trite that it only creates more insulate personalities? I’m not ragging on NYers who have lived in the city and make a living like any other urban dweller in [insert any city name] but on those who think NYC is be epitome and that any other city isn’t worth it. Me being a D bad doesn’t refute what I say, it just proves it, and you’re proving me right.
Well, what he says is true. I;ve read all his posts and he’s not being a douchebag nor is he taking low blows at the place. As a NYC resident I see where he’s coming from. If you think he’s being the bigger asshole then you haven’t stepped out of your borough enough.
Fuck all this .. Fuck a skin color .. Fuck evryone who lives somewhere cuz its cool .. Die where the fuck you’re born .. A fuckin movie you saw aint a fuckin travel guide .. Whatcha think little black kids are gonna come take your hand to go play in the fire hydrant water splashin and you gonna be happy for the rest of your life ?? Go fuck a fuckin camel you fuckin fuck .. Evryone is fuckin racist and envious and jealous or fame or wanna bees or tryin toos or fuckin takers and control freaks and .. What the fuck .. Are people really like that too ? Like, peoplle go live there for a couple years and think they own the fuckin place .. Fuck my ass tabarnak .. I’m from Montreal .. All i can say when i read all this is .. FUCK AMERICA!!! … HahahAha
Dude, you gonna need to calm down. Some of your points are valid, others need rephrasing to be less sexually violent. Pace yourself thats all im saying
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White people like gentrifying neighborhoods too. Thanks to white people moving in my neighborhood my landlord wants to jack my rent up 300 bucks. I’m taking his ass to court next Tuesday. Btw white people from out of (NYC) state: Stay the fuck there! We don’t need your organic eating asses gentrifying Brooklyn. And stop getting mad when you get robbed. The writer of this blog should add this to their list of “Stuff White People Like:” Not having curtains. White people don’t believe in curtains and wonder why they get robbed. It behooves me to see a white person sitting in their over-priced (look up “gringo tax”) apartment on their expensive iMacs and they look up at me passing by like they’re oblivious to NOT having curtains! Look in wisconsin, that shit may work, but here in Brooklyn, the same Brooklyn where your race has displaced several minorities who’ve lived here for generations – that shit doesn’t fly.
I am surprised how many commentors get upset.
My GF and I say the same thing! They never have curtains! WHY NOT?!?!
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I lived in NYC for three years. I was the typical white dude wanting to live in NYC to experience it, cept I moved there for a chick, which is probably another white dude thing to do.
I have an affection for the city, no doubt, but about 95% of the shit you have to do on a daily basis sucks more than it does in other cities (laundry, buying a coffee, subways, traffic, bad/fucked up a/c situations, etc.) The other 5% of time is really fun and probably way more fun than most places. So, if that tradeoff makes sense to you, try it out. Also, to really have the quality of life you can get in any other of the biggest 50 cities, you need to pull in a mil a year or have ten mil somehow to begin with, so you can pay people to do the hassles and headaches mentioned above.
But, I did meet plenty of transplants like me who were too high on NYC. One dude at a party said “Best place on earth” with the certainty of someone saying “Things fall down rather than up”. I thought:
1. Based on what metric, first of all? It is too subjective to even begin.
2. You’ve been to every city on earth? No one has. I’ve never been to Jakarta, for example, and for all I know it might be really fucking cool, even cooler than anywhere else I’ve been, so I’d never say anywhere is “the best place on earth”.
I find it soooo annoying how people assume how everyone from NYC must live in Manhattan. They act as if the other boroughs don’t exist. I live in Queens and it’s irritating how every tourist that comes to NYC wants to talk about Manhattan, Times Square, or Broadway. Ughhh get over your selves!!!!
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I bet the Chinese Investors will buy up all the real estate now! They have to dump the now worthless Federal Reserve greenbacks somewhere. Why not New York? I think today’s New is dull and boring. Here’s a poem dedicated to today’s New York.
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Who pretend to look healthy and clean.
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