Your City Is Not What they Say!

[T. Sanford]

@"caddo man" @southsil4lil Y'all got me thinking about Dallas very adamantly now. These days need to fast forward, I'm ready to hit that city up like last year

 

[blackrain]

PG County is one of the richest African American-majority counties in the United States.

Its also one of the most clasist and segregated places

 

[blackrain]

PG County is one of the richest African American-majority counties in the United States.

what cuz durant got money now?

Nah PG has always had a strong black middle class. It got hit hard by the recession and housing crash but its bouncing back. Only issue is PG is classist as fuck. The nice areas are REALLY but the fucked up parts are super fucked up. Like going from Suitland or Forestville to Upper Marlboro you will think you went to another world

 

[D. Morgan]

PG County is one of the richest African American-majority counties in the United States.

You left out whats most important though.

Has some of the highest fucking property taxes and a horrible fucking school system.

 

[caddo man]

@SuperManuel

It only seem prevalent because it is centered around the tourist area. When you leave those areas it is less prevalent. But that is all you see because all the attractions are downtown outside of the new Braves stadium.

The crime is par the course of a large city. Carjacking, bank robberies, drug deal gon bad, high and low level prostituting. Miami was built off of cocaine money so the level of crime will never be at that peak. Also Miami has whole sides or sections of poverty. ATL has pockets of poverty. It is still alot! Hit the wrong turn and you fucked. Shit will be right beside a $500,000 subdivision. Case in point: Grant Park surrounded by hood but is becoming one the most sort after places to stay in ATL.

ATL is cut up in sections like any major city.

Southside (below Memorial Drive) - blue collar residential.

Northside (above Memorial drive) - Midtown/Buckhead/Downtown/Perimeter white collar jobs/white collar residents

Outside the perimeter (285)- suburbs mostly mixed

Outside the perimeter (285) between 75 & 85 north - A whole lotta money

Atlanta is going through the type of growth that Dallas was during the late 80s and 90s. If anyone remember Dallas in the 90s. Mesquite and Plano was the suburbs and damn near country. There was a actual large gap between Forth Worth and Dallas area. Atlanta is spreading the same way.

 

[SELASI_i]

Dope thread.

 

[MoneyPowerRespect]

Dallas is too spread out. I hate visiting family there cause It is a hour here and a hour there. Plus add traffic. McKinney to Mesquite to Plano to Cedar Hill to Ft. Worth to North Dallas. It takes me damn near a week just to visit. That is why Dallas will never be like Houston or Atlanta or any of the other popping cities. There is no central area. Dallas is not the central area spot. Everything and everybody is spread out.

But the part about jobs and money is so true. It is ridiculous the amount of money it is in Dallas. If you cant make it in Dallas. You are a sad individual.

And back on the ATL, Why does seeing gay people bother you all so much? I see gay people in every major city in the world that I have been too. Really overseas (Europe, Middle East and Asia) you cant tell because male to male behavior and how women dress is far different compared to America.

Midtown/Downtown/Buckhead is the central area where everything happens in the ATL. It is the tourist area. It is also the area that is a gay hub for Atlanta. So if you are visiting the ATL and hit all of the tourist spot. Then yeah that is what you will see. Like going to San Fran or NYC. But why does it bother you that much?

Every time I see a gay man, I immediately think rectal/colon cancer and all sorts of butt- issues.

 

[dallas' 4 eva]

Dallas is too spread out. I hate visiting family there cause It is a hour here and a hour there. Plus add traffic. McKinney to Mesquite to Plano to Cedar Hill to Ft. Worth to North Dallas. It takes me damn near a week just to visit. That is why Dallas will never be like Houston or Atlanta or any of the other popping cities. There is no central area. Dallas is not the central area spot. Everything and everybody is spread out.

Yeah this is the only part about the city that kind of sucks, but is great at the same time. Nobody who was from other places uses to believe me when I would tell them that if I started driving in North Dallas 20 minutes later I would still be in North Dallas.

Thing is you have to live here to understand, every side of town or city has it's own identity. Dallas is different from Arlington, and both are different from Ft. Worth. You figure out where you like and you live there. I like North Dallas so I stay in North Dallas, most of my kinfolks like the southern side, none of us fuck with Tarrant County though. lol

My fiance is from LA and she loves how DFW is set up, she says we actually have space to live and park our cars because everything is spread out.

 

[MallyG]

Hey man yall gon stop speaking down on the island of ATL.

The ATL is a international city now. So they have legit international city problems.

But the amount of hustle out here is damn near mind numbing. If you dont have a side hustle going on MFER actually look at you funny like, "WTF are you doing with your life."

Most people here are hustling trying to be a star and the movie industry here is not helping. ATL is not Hollywood south. It is co-op by Hollywood. Let those subsidies drop and they will be back in Cali fast as fuck.

But it is something happening every weekend or weekday. Job market is stupid good. You really dont have to leave the island of ATL for shit.

Or and why do I call it the island of ATL. Cause when you leave this place. You fall right back to the reality in the south. The ATL has a gravitational pull on everything in within a 200 mile radius of this city. Dont shit else happen in the other smaller cities before it has happened here first.

pretty much the same thing here ^^

Yo my mom is finally leaving there to move here. It is bitter sweet but that is the last person in my immediate family that stayed there. I have real reason to return, outside of nostalgia trips.

@"caddo man"

Thank you for representin' the ATL delegation in the proper manner! lol

 

[Undefeatable]

I keep running into these videos of black people saying DON'T move to Atlanta. E.g.:


And there are a lot more where that came from.

Any truth to this? Cause I'm in the process of applying for some jobs, one of which is in Atlanta.

 

[southsil4lil]

Dallas is too spread out. I hate visiting family there cause It is a hour here and a hour there. Plus add traffic. McKinney to Mesquite to Plano to Cedar Hill to Ft. Worth to North Dallas. It takes me damn near a week just to visit. That is why Dallas will never be like Houston or Atlanta or any of the other popping cities. There is no central area. Dallas is not the central area spot. Everything and everybody is spread out.

Yeah this is the only part about the city that kind of sucks, but is great at the same time. Nobody who was from other places uses to believe me when I would tell them that if I started driving in North Dallas 20 minutes later I would still be in North Dallas.

Thing is you have to live here to understand, every side of town or city has it's own identity. Dallas is different from Arlington, and both are different from Ft. Worth. You figure out where you like and you live there. I like North Dallas so I stay in North Dallas, most of my kinfolks like the southern side, none of us fuck with Tarrant County though. lol

My fiance is from LA and she loves how DFW is set up, she says we actually have space to live and park our cars because everything is spread out.

When I was in the DFW I lived North Dino and Addison, loved it out there

 

[dallas' 4 eva]

Dallas is too spread out. I hate visiting family there cause It is a hour here and a hour there. Plus add traffic. McKinney to Mesquite to Plano to Cedar Hill to Ft. Worth to North Dallas. It takes me damn near a week just to visit. That is why Dallas will never be like Houston or Atlanta or any of the other popping cities. There is no central area. Dallas is not the central area spot. Everything and everybody is spread out.

Yeah this is the only part about the city that kind of sucks, but is great at the same time. Nobody who was from other places uses to believe me when I would tell them that if I started driving in North Dallas 20 minutes later I would still be in North Dallas.

Thing is you have to live here to understand, every side of town or city has it's own identity. Dallas is different from Arlington, and both are different from Ft. Worth. You figure out where you like and you live there. I like North Dallas so I stay in North Dallas, most of my kinfolks like the southern side, none of us fuck with Tarrant County though. lol

My fiance is from LA and she loves how DFW is set up, she says we actually have space to live and park our cars because everything is spread out.

When I was in the DFW I lived North Dino and Addison, loved it out there

Dallas is the shit, low key, but it's the shit. Money, broads, low cost of living and taxes, very close to casinos and it's a bunch of lakes around here for water sports too. This place is a slept on gem bruh.

 

[MD_PROPER]

Detroit has some of the best food and fashion hands down.

 

[caddo man]

I keep running into these videos of black people saying DON'T move to Atlanta. E.g.:


And there are a lot more where that came from.

Any truth to this? Cause I'm in the process of applying for some jobs, one of which is in Atlanta.

Man that was hard to watch. The only thing I agreed with her on is the traffic is bad on the northside. I agree that the majority of the people here are not from here. I agree that all the people that complain about the ATL have crazy expectations.

All major cities have traffic. All major cities have crime. All major cities have rude people. What ATL offer is better weather than most places, job opportunities, and low cost of livings. To add on ATL has something going on all the time. Not many places can say that.

 

[felliwonda]

Nashville is being gentrified.

The white people no longer fear us. Quite sad, really.

But Nashville is a good party city.

I talk to one of our promoters and he's trying to get Trap Karaoke here (I'm super excited) and he's also trying to get Krit here.

We just need other things to do than the club.

They say that we're going to be another Atlanta and I pray to baby Jesus it doesn't go that far.

I never thought I 'd see the day when Atlanta was looked at in a negative light. what happened to Atlanta? who ruined it? I haven't been there since 2002 and right now I'm not so sure I want to go back.

The HIV/AIDS

The traffic

The strip club culture

The trannys

The only thing about Atlanta that I respect is the black owned businesses.

Nashville is slowly getting there.

But, the gays did it.

Atlanta was always a strip club mecca since the 90's but I remember when Atlanta was just a city. now its another Hollywood ,they are shooting all of these reality shows there, a lot of wack rap is coming out of Atlanta now. also Atlanta always had a gay population but now they've gone into hyperdrive with it.

also there used to be peaches up there. I remember flying to Atlanta in '98 and seeing beautiful ladies greeting me with warm smiles right at the airport terminal. i'm on my way back to my aunties house after the family reunion and seeing bad ass caramel colored broads standing in the front yard like its a normal thing. my cousin was working as a bailbondsman up there in the down town area and he said at lunchtime he used to look outside his office window and see a parade of bad bitches on the sidewalks. what is the scene like up there. does modern hip hop reflect how the city is now? is there a bunch of bloods and weird looking young thug type niggas wearing dresses. are there still peaches up there or did they get replaced by fat ugly ashy hoodrats. i'm going by what I saw in that Atlanta security guard video. I miss the old Atlanta.

Danm man i went to Atl back in 07’ And again in late 08’ I didn’t expect this I was looking forward to the Atl. Especially after T.I. Was talking that Good ol’ ATL shit JEEZY talking that ATL Good ol’ Ways man what’s up ATL? Stand up MAN? Somethings gotta change yo!!

 

[felliwonda]

Chicago, yeah cats get killed here but what major metro city doesn't. Outside of that it's a lot to do here. As far as tourist go they stick to downtown and the north side. It's a lot of gems around on the south and west side, with beautiful architecture and everything. In the summer, Chicago has it going on with a lot of the festivals going on. West Indian and African fests. Like I see if you a fuck nigga that's what you got looking for, fuck shit

For some reason at heart i always had Chicago as a place to go to no matter the streotypes man.

I know Chicago got their history just like we all do.

 

[yellowtapesport]

DC---come get some Mambo sauce niggas.

 

[MoneyPowerRespect]

Chicago, yeah cats get killed here but what major metro city doesn't. Outside of that it's a lot to do here. As far as tourist go they stick to downtown and the north side. It's a lot of gems around on the south and west side, with beautiful architecture and everything. In the summer, Chicago has it going on with a lot of the festivals going on. West Indian and African fests. Like I see if you a fuck nigga that's what you got looking for, fuck shit

Tbh, outside of the crime, I hear nothing but good things about The Chi. Especially the food. I'm a sucker for a bomb ass pizza lol

I may have to check out some of those festivals this summer too. We have some here in late summer/early fall, but I like to travel.

 

[MoneyPowerRespect]

Detroit has some of the best food and fashion hands down.

There's a spot up there that used to be an old Advanced Financial.. It's some of the best soul food I've Ever had.

 

[caddo man]

I here good things about alot of Midwest cities. Chicago, Detroit, Madison, Kansas City, etc. One thing I cant fuck with yall on.

Fuck that and the snowplow it rode in on.