Quicken Crushes It

[Metro25]

I looked into a job there once. I have no problem with the work ethic; I'm used to that. It was the compensation. Maybe I got unlucky with the recruiter: the offer was barely 1/2 what I was earning in NY. He said, "but the cost of living!" I disagree. In NY you don't need a car, insurance, or alarm systems. Good groceries and just about everything else you need can be had within a few blocks walk. Lots of options for storytime. Great playgrounds. Transit anywhere else you may need to go. Well-educated neighbors, even when they didn't go to college. Much less racism. Safety. Almost no one has a gun. I love Detroit too, but it's neither half as expensive nor twice as attractive a place to live.

Literally every NY transplant I've met raves about how much better it is living here. You're blind if you think New York isn't full of racism everywhere or that a college degree makes somebody less racist.

I don't know anybody with a gun either, you act like this is rural Alabama. Spare us the elitist bull crap.

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Literally every NY transplant I've met raves about how much better it is living here. You're blind if you think New York isn't full of racism everywhere or that a college degree makes somebody less racist.

I don't know anybody with a gun either, you act like this is rural Alabama. Spare us the elitist bull crap.

I chuckled at the "Much less racism" too. I think the racism on the East coast is comparable, if not MORE, depending on the city.

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I chuckled at the "Much less racism" too. I think the racism on the East coast is comparable, if not MORE, depending on the city.

Maybe, but I said New York City, not East Coast.
NYC is not immune from racism, but it has benefited: much of it retired South, moved to NJ or Long Island, or has died off.
Even Trump made FL his official residence. Good riddance! Besides, all evidence suggests he's long already been evading his taxes.

Who's been moving in?
Jamaica Estates, Queens, where Trump grew up, is less than 29% white.
Bensonhurst, the South Brooklyn neighborhood Spike Lee used to represent racism in Jungle Fever nearly 30 years ago, is less than half white.
The only neighborhoods where the white population is increasing are where previously there were few and are more examples of increased diversity.
NYC is not just racially diverse, its population is nearly 40% foreign-born. It's nationality-diverse.
Metro NY has the biggest foreign-born population anywhere on Earth. 1.4 million more than there are people in metro Detroit.
Another large proportion arrived from another part of the US.
NYC demographics being what they are, not many are racist. Few move where they're surrounded by whom they don't like.

Who's been moving out?
As suggested earlier: not always, but at least partially they're an inverse self-selecting group.

Racism in NY still exists. But comparatively not much.

I wasn't as diplomatic as I should have been in my last post. Sorry about that.
But it was correct.
It's great Quicken Loans killed it. That wasn't my point.

[Zozo]

Racism in NY still exists. But comparatively not much.

You seem to be saying that because NYC is less white it is less racist? This is not true at all and is easily disproved. In fact there has been a whole slew of racist attacks in NYC just over the last six months. All these racist attacks have been by blacks against whites or Jews. If you visit any area in Brooklyn you can feel a very strong animosity coming from the black community these days.

[Gistok]

You seem to be saying that because NYC is less white it is less racist? This is not true at all and is easily disproved. In fact there has been a whole slew of racist attacks in NYC just over the last six months. All these racist attacks have been by blacks against whites or Jews. If you visit any area in Brooklyn you can feel a very strong animosity coming from the black community these days.

Brooklyn is fast being gentrified, and the poorer blacks that are being squeezed out are not happy about it.

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Brooklyn is fast being gentrified, and the poorer blacks that are being squeezed out are not happy about it.

The attacks on Jews from black people have been mostly mentally unstable people or teenagers being stupid. That's not an excuse for the behavior, but there is not broad tension between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn [[at least not anymore than usual). Another thing to note, not all of these attacks against Jews have been perpetuated by blacks.

The two groups have lived side by side in Brooklyn for decades, well before the gentrification term was part of common conversation. Also, the types of people that are accused of gentrifying Brooklyn are not the from the groups who have been victimized in the attacks that have received large amounts of media attention.