Staying in the Hood.

[StillFaggyAF]

@ms.jones smart money says cut your losses while there' still some value. Some people aret creatures of habitat

Consider the fact that most people wouldn't want to take that kind of hit on their credit. We are no longer in a buyer's market, so short selling would be considered a wash, walking away isn't a bright idea, and allowing the home to become a rental is a crapshoot.

Those are some of the things that just can't be ignored. And no matter where you choose to move to, crime will be there. The chances will lessen to some degree, however, there is no hiding from it.

wanna know what kind of crime I dealt with where I lived in AZ?

Graffiti and the occasional drunken disorderly person.

That's as bad as it got. If you know where to live, you reduce the crime you encounter to almost ZERO. The last house we had in AZ was in a fairly secluded area up in the mountains. Crime was almost nonexistent, especially since we had a police station right as you come into the community. There was so little crime my way, that the cops from my community would get dispatched to other parts of the city 'cause there usually wasn't shit for them to do by us.

There's plenty of places to live like this all over the country. Believe it or not, there are places where people want to live drama free, and do what it takes to keep their communities safe.

That's great. You found your slice of the pie and ate it. You lived in an area with a police station. I would hope crime would be low in that community. You also stated that the area you lived in was secluded, which means urban sprawl has yet to make a change. Should that ever happened, expect crime to go up.

This perceived notion of just getting up and getting gone is obsurd. Not everyone in America has the means to just' go'. Again, these areas may have started off great little working communities that happened to chage over time. And even though the area changed, doesn't mean that incomes of those that bought into it did. Case in point, here in Memphis there is an area called Southwind with homes ranging in the 150,000 to 250,000 area. The just built a housing project in the same area. Now, home sales in Memphis suck, and jobs aren't that plentiful. What should they do? Up and leave? Go to another location and call it a day?

if they have the ability they can leave

 

[Meta_Conscious]

Dont live in the hood post my neighbors are white. I also carry so I dont care about ending a thugs life to keep my neighborhood nigga free

But would u shoot a corrupt jake?

Whats a corrupt Jake?

You'd kill a black man... Would u kill a cop who threatened your life unjustly?

 

[Trollio]

ajackson is a informat

 

[Ajackson17]

Dont live in the hood post my neighbors are white. I also carry so I dont care about ending a thugs life to keep my neighborhood nigga free

But would u shoot a corrupt jake?

Whats a corrupt Jake?

You'd kill a black man... Would u kill a cop who threatened your life unjustly?

No, he must be under some sort of stress and pain. I would help him out and makenit easier on him by doing what he told me to do. And give him a card to my church so he can come.

 

[Meta_Conscious]

Back to cooning I see... I hope your white friends slip rat poison into your watermelon... Yabish...

 

[Ajackson17]

ajackson is a informat

Im not an informant. Just as long ghetto/ratchets and dont come in my presence and bother people with futures than its cool.

 

[konceptjones]

That's great. You found your slice of the pie and ate it. You lived in an area with a police station. I would hope crime would be low in that community. You also stated that the area you lived in was secluded, which means urban sprawl has yet to make a change. Should that ever happened, expect crime to go up.

This perceived notion of just getting up and getting gone is obsurd. Not everyone in America has the means to just' go'. Again, these areas may have started off great little working communities that happened to chage over time. And even though the area changed, doesn't mean that incomes of those that bought into it did. Case in point, here in Memphis there is an area called Southwind with homes ranging in the 150,000 to 250,000 area. The just built a housing project in the same area. Now, home sales in Memphis suck, and jobs aren't that plentiful. What should they do? Up and leave? Go to another location and call it a day?

Funny you mention it, my old community was a result of "urban sprawl". Metro Phoenix is one of the worst areas for urban sprawl in the country. It just so happens that this master planned community in particular was built up in the mountains.

You would be surprised at just how many people can "get up and go" if push comes to shove. I've known people move to different states with barely anything to their name and make shit happen for themselves. I've seen whole families make the decision to leave their cities behind because there were no jobs and crime was going up.

My family was one of them

We left the Metro Detroit area for Metro Phoenix for this very reason. The lil contract gig I had was coming to an end. I couldn't find a job for shit anywhere in the area. We peeped Orlando, SoCal, and Phoenix and settled on Phoenix, but we moved without having secured a job yet and only a handful of interviews lined up when I got out there. The first year or two was hard as fuck, but we managed and eventually did well out there. One of my sisters did the same thing with less than I had (moved to NC tho). My moms and her sister did it, and my cousins did it.

It's all about a willingness to make it. There's cats I run across where I'm at now that left their old hoods to try to make something better pop off for their families. Shit may start off rough, but if you keep at it you can make it.

Think of all the Mexicans that come here with barely a dime to their name and a year later they're doing better than the Americans they live around. Do they know something we don't?

 

[Ajackson17]

Back to cooning I see... I hope your white friends slip rat poison into your watermelon... Yabish...

I have black friends who have families and who are legal.

 

[THIRDSUPREME]

u a hoe third supreme

I aint no bitch ass nigga.

 

[THIRDSUPREME]

@ms.jones smart money says cut your losses while there' still some value. Some people aret creatures of habitat

Consider the fact that most people wouldn't want to take that kind of hit on their credit. We are no longer in a buyer's market, so short selling would be considered a wash, walking away isn't a bright idea, and allowing the home to become a rental is a crapshoot.

Those are some of the things that just can't be ignored. And no matter where you choose to move to, crime will be there. The chances will lessen to some degree, however, there is no hiding from it.

wanna know what kind of crime I dealt with where I lived in AZ?

Graffiti and the occasional drunken disorderly person.

That's as bad as it got. If you know where to live, you reduce the crime you encounter to almost ZERO. The last house we had in AZ was in a fairly secluded area up in the mountains. Crime was almost nonexistent, especially since we had a police station right as you come into the community. There was so little crime my way, that the cops from my community would get dispatched to other parts of the city 'cause there usually wasn't shit for them to do by us.

There's plenty of places to live like this all over the country. Believe it or not, there are places where people want to live drama free, and do what it takes to keep their communities safe.

That's great. You found your slice of the pie and ate it. You lived in an area with a police station. I would hope crime would be low in that community. You also stated that the area you lived in was secluded, which means urban sprawl has yet to make a change. Should that ever happened, expect crime to go up.

This perceived notion of just getting up and getting gone is obsurd. Not everyone in America has the means to just' go'. Again, these areas may have started off great little working communities that happened to chage over time. And even though the area changed, doesn't mean that incomes of those that bought into it did. Case in point, here in Memphis there is an area called Southwind with homes ranging in the 150,000 to 250,000 area. The just built a housing project in the same area. Now, home sales in Memphis suck, and jobs aren't that plentiful. What should they do? Up and leave? Go to another location and call it a day?

You might take an L selling a crib....it happens.... but its way better to take a small l now than a big L later.

 

[ms.jones]

@konceptjones, were you all homeowners or renters?

 

[konceptjones]

@ms.jones smart money says cut your losses while there' still some value. Some people aret creatures of habitat

Consider the fact that most people wouldn't want to take that kind of hit on their credit. We are no longer in a buyer's market, so short selling would be considered a wash, walking away isn't a bright idea, and allowing the home to become a rental is a crapshoot.

Those are some of the things that just can't be ignored. And no matter where you choose to move to, crime will be there. The chances will lessen to some degree, however, there is no hiding from it.

wanna know what kind of crime I dealt with where I lived in AZ?

Graffiti and the occasional drunken disorderly person.

That's as bad as it got. If you know where to live, you reduce the crime you encounter to almost ZERO. The last house we had in AZ was in a fairly secluded area up in the mountains. Crime was almost nonexistent, especially since we had a police station right as you come into the community. There was so little crime my way, that the cops from my community would get dispatched to other parts of the city 'cause there usually wasn't shit for them to do by us.

There's plenty of places to live like this all over the country. Believe it or not, there are places where people want to live drama free, and do what it takes to keep their communities safe.

That's great. You found your slice of the pie and ate it. You lived in an area with a police station. I would hope crime would be low in that community. You also stated that the area you lived in was secluded, which means urban sprawl has yet to make a change. Should that ever happened, expect crime to go up.

This perceived notion of just getting up and getting gone is obsurd. Not everyone in America has the means to just' go'. Again, these areas may have started off great little working communities that happened to chage over time. And even though the area changed, doesn't mean that incomes of those that bought into it did. Case in point, here in Memphis there is an area called Southwind with homes ranging in the 150,000 to 250,000 area. The just built a housing project in the same area. Now, home sales in Memphis suck, and jobs aren't that plentiful. What should they do? Up and leave? Go to another location and call it a day?

You might take an L selling a crib....it happens.... but its way better to take a small l now than a big L later.

I work with a cat right now that just finished a short-sale a few weeks ago. Sometimes you gotta do that. We took a small hit leaving AZ

This also assumes that a lot of people in the hood even owns their home. Renters can pretty much bounce when they need to and take that lil L if it comes to that.

 

[THIRDSUPREME]

That's great. You found your slice of the pie and ate it. You lived in an area with a police station. I would hope crime would be low in that community. You also stated that the area you lived in was secluded, which means urban sprawl has yet to make a change. Should that ever happened, expect crime to go up.

This perceived notion of just getting up and getting gone is obsurd. Not everyone in America has the means to just' go'. Again, these areas may have started off great little working communities that happened to chage over time. And even though the area changed, doesn't mean that incomes of those that bought into it did. Case in point, here in Memphis there is an area called Southwind with homes ranging in the 150,000 to 250,000 area. The just built a housing project in the same area. Now, home sales in Memphis suck, and jobs aren't that plentiful. What should they do? Up and leave? Go to another location and call it a day?

Funny you mention it, my old community was a result of "urban sprawl". Metro Phoenix is one of the worst areas for urban sprawl in the country. It just so happens that this master planned community in particular was built up in the mountains.

You would be surprised at just how many people can "get up and go" if push comes to shove. I've known people move to different states with barely anything to their name and make shit happen for themselves. I've seen whole families make the decision to leave their cities behind because there were no jobs and crime was going up.

My family was one of them

We left the Metro Detroit area for Metro Phoenix for this very reason. The lil contract gig I had was coming to an end. I couldn't find a job for shit anywhere in the area. We peeped Orlando, SoCal, and Phoenix and settled on Phoenix, but we moved without having secured a job yet and only a handful of interviews lined up when I got out there. The first year or two was hard as fuck, but we managed and eventually did well out there. One of my sisters did the same thing with less than I had (moved to NC tho). My moms and her sister did it, and my cousins did it.

It's all about a willingness to make it. There's cats I run across where I'm at now that left their old hoods to try to make something better pop off for their families. Shit may start off rough, but if you keep at it you can make it.

Think of all the Mexicans that come here with barely a dime to their name and a year later they're doing better than the Americans they live around. Do they know something we don't?

They do... They know that making a better life for their families is ALL that matters. If they have to pay high ass "illegal" rent, work for less pay, and live with family to stack bread they will. We tend to have no unity and an uncanny ability to make excuses for ourselves.... So..... We stay in the hood and act like that's the shit to do.

 

[Meta_Conscious]

Back to cooning I see... I hope your white friends slip rat poison into your watermelon... Yabish...

I have black friends who have families and who are legal.

I hope your black friends make racist jokes about u to your white friends when u r not around...

 

[Trollio]

 

[VulcanRaven]

Could be a few things: People could feel they have roots where they live, or if they keep to themselves the violence won't spill over to them directly (which is true for the most part).

Some have the mentality that they refuse to be scared of their own people, and want to stay to make a difference. Lots of reasons really, not always misplaced affection for "the hood"

Well then they should go to Africa since that is where our roots lie. Blacks are only in the hood because of slavery and oppression.

 

[Ajackson17]

Back to cooning I see... I hope your white friends slip rat poison into your watermelon... Yabish...

I have black friends who have families and who are legal.

I hope your black friends make racist jokes about u to your white friends when u r not around...

Why you hate me?

 

[Max.]

Im 5 mins away from MLK

 

[Max.]

I was watching belly last nite goat...

 

[konceptjones]

@konceptjones, were you all homeowners or renters?

homeowners at that time. Short sale, but the hit wasn't that bad and the banks let us off the hook easy 'cause we got out before the values dropped far below what we paid.

Housing prices in Phoenix got retarded for a minute. When we first moved there, the house next door was 3300sq/ft but dude paid $159K for it and thew cat next to him was in a 3600sq/ft crib and paid $189K for it with a corner lot. When the market tanked, those same models in that same subdivision were selling for $400K+. We got in out community when prices were on the way down. The drop slowed right after we moved in and when we left, we had only lost $9K off what we paid, so the bank was more than happy to help considering there were short sales for $100K or more less than purchase price out there.