Why have you folks moved to neighbourhoods

of course it was mostly housing cost, although "lower" makes me chuckle a little, since that makes it sound like the costs here aren't already slightly more than i feel like i can reasonably afford. i knew nyc was expensive when i moved here, so i don't mean to complain unduly, but sheesh!

i am pretty happy with the neighborhood -- the places i've lived before now have had their fair share of "challenges", too -- but sometimes i want to shake people who act as if i have some kind of evil gentrifying strategy, since really, i just want a decent place to live that i can come close to affording.

things that made me choose this particular neighborhood (besides that this is where i found a good apartment in the extremely short span of time i had to locate one): great transportation, the amazingly lovely bbg, the park and library and museum all so close, and, frankly, the gorgeous view down washington.

since coming here, i've been happy with the general friendliness of people out and about, the fact that multiple restaurants, including 2 sushi places, deliver to my house (i could only get one pizza place to come to my house in chicago, although they did make a mean chicken tandoori pie....), my swell corner bodega, the kids jumping double dutch and playing basketball in the afternoons, and the recent addition of gold daisies to the shuttle overpass. and the fact that it's always less hot here than wherever i've come from, be it the slope or the city.

i still wish there were fewer gunshots, that i felt safer walking down franklin at night, and that there weren't so many incidents i have to not describe to my mother. (like the first or second night we were here, walking home through PH -- hah! that it's so much better on that side of washington, i say, hah! -- crossing underhill just as a fleet of ambulances was leaving, listening to the ladies on the stoop describe in vivid detail what the kid who'd just been stabbed had looked like with his insides falling out.) oh, and i wish there were some trees on my block.

Psst...

Park and Nostrand

(but you didn't hear it from me)

We were looking in various parts of Brooklyn. Our agent showed us Crown Heights and the price was right. Actually a little over our budget at the time, but we saw prices rising around us and decided we were getting a good value. It turns that if we had waited any longer we would have been priced out of Crown Heights.

We have The Times delivered on Saturday and Sunday.

Park and Nostrand,
Thanks!

Bergen and Classon is a hike ( on a sunday morning) from New York Ave.

thalia wrote: [quote=sweet tea]of course it was mostly housing cost, although "lower" makes me chuckle a little, since that makes it sound like the costs here aren't already slightly more than i feel like i can reasonably afford. i knew nyc was expensive when i moved here, so i don't mean to complain unduly, but sheesh!

i am pretty happy with the neighborhood -- the places i've lived before now have had their fair share of "challenges", too -- but sometimes i want to shake people who act as if i have some kind of evil gentrifying strategy, since really, i just want a decent place to live that i can come close to affording.

things that made me choose this particular neighborhood (besides that this is where i found a good apartment in the extremely short span of time i had to locate one): great transportation, the amazingly lovely bbg, the park and library and museum all so close, and, frankly, the gorgeous view down washington.

since coming here, i've been happy with the general friendliness of people out and about, the fact that multiple restaurants, including 2 sushi places, deliver to my house (i could only get one pizza place to come to my house in chicago, although they did make a mean chicken tandoori pie....), my swell corner bodega, the kids jumping double dutch and playing basketball in the afternoons, and the recent addition of gold daisies to the shuttle overpass. and the fact that it's always less hot here than wherever i've come from, be it the slope or the city.

i still wish there were fewer gunshots, that i felt safer walking down franklin at night, and that there weren't so many incidents i have to not describe to my mother. (like the first or second night we were here, walking home through PH -- hah! that it's so much better on that side of washington, i say, hah! -- crossing underhill just as a fleet of ambulances was leaving, listening to the ladies on the stoop describe in vivid detail what the kid who'd just been stabbed had looked like with his insides falling out.) oh, and i wish there were some trees on my block.

thnx..yes..I hear you on the trees I spent several yrs in CHs (in the Carribean section) and left as quickly as I could because it was lacking in so many things..back then you could not even find the NY times at a newstand. Its OK to visit..which I do...but I can't imagine living there again

Really? I can get the times any day of the week by me. The Wall Street Journal...that's a different story.