Who here is from NYC and who here is a transplant?

alafairnadia wrote: and what a thread to revive ...

is that sarcasm or are you as bored as me?

I was searching for threads on something else random and got onto this one... I guess I was a little surprised to see an Arkie amongst the prolific posters (apollonia666).

OpossumQueen wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]and what a thread to revive ...

is that sarcasm or are you as bored as me?

I was searching for threads on something else random and got onto this one... I guess I was a little surprised to see an Arkie amongst the prolific posters (apollonia666).

I think if you look back into some of the previous pages on this thread and see the venom spewed, you'll understand why a Moderator on the site is a tiny bit wary about it getting revived, no matter how innocuous the name and a good bit of the content are. but enjoy! it'll keep you busy and unbored!

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=OpossumQueen][quote=alafairnadia]and what a thread to revive ...

is that sarcasm or are you as bored as me?

I was searching for threads on something else random and got onto this one... I guess I was a little surprised to see an Arkie amongst the prolific posters (apollonia666).

I think if you look back into some of the previous pages on this thread and see the venom spewed, you'll understand why a Moderator on the site is a tiny bit wary about it getting revived, no matter how innocuous the name and a good bit of the content are. but enjoy! it'll keep you busy and unbored!

Yeah, but the main venom-spewer moved out of the neighborhood and hasn't posted since May, so I think we're safe!

Reviving this thread reminded me of the marvelous ham-in-the-cooler thread, which I just put up in "Best of Brooklynian."

Transplant: Native Minnesotan via Chicago, London, Boston, Seattle, and then Minnesota again.

OpossumQueen wrote: What part of AR, apollonia? Pine Bluff, land of the paper mill and a chemical weapons arsenal! I dearly miss the lack of winter but not the mosquitoes!

Pine Bluff! "If Hell had a smell..." Coincidentally, I just got off the phone with a work colleague from Little Rock who was heading to your hometown for a meeting this afternoon.

I grew up in Hot Springs and went to college in Fayetteville (which had its own unique scent at times thanks to the dog food factory there). Then I lived in Little Rock for just a few months before leaving to live in Lawrence, Kansas (same town Buffalo's from) for 10 years before moving here.

Don't know how old you are, OpossumQueen, but didja ever go to Magic Springs in the summertime? If you did so anywhere between 1982 and 1986, you quite possibly were on some ride I was operating. Chances even higher if you rode the log ride, the bumper cars, the swings, or the "Roaring Tornado"!

73-92 W.Hartford, CT
92-94 Boston
94-95 DC
95-98 West Village
98-07 St.J's PPH!!!!

Working at the log ride was a mixed bag -- it was a little less roasty than the other rides in the park, but when you had to sit in the tower at the top of the big drop kids would sometimes throw water on you, and that was also the worst possible place to be stuck when you needed to pee and were waiting for someone to come take over so you could take a bathroom break!! The swings were what they put me on most of the time. They thought I was good at taunting people over that loudspeaker. :twisted:

I had my first kiss at the top of the ferris wheel there, the first summer I worked there. Dude put his tongue so far down my throat it dang near popped out the back of my neck.

I'm not from here. Here now. Here, of course, is Prospect Heights. Love it. See you at the park.

transplant from Louisiana where things work even less than nyc and people in new orleans have the same accent as brooklynites in bay ridge so i feel very at home. been here for 5 years

middle earth (n. anduin), brooklyn (s. slope), outer realm (roadied for cat stevens, lived in a van), brooklyn again (n. slope), middle earth again (1 bd. cave, lochlorien burbs), followed the dead (no real location), tulsa (guide at christian petting zoo), lived in a car again,

blur, blur, blur (culturally induced coma)

brooklyn (nethermead)

Born and raised in Park Slope...I lived in Midwood for a minute before moving to Prospect Heights. My mother was born and raised in Prospect Heights, and my dad grew up a few blocks from Ebbets Field. Sadly, I'll be moving in a week, so I'll miss all the nice ladies and gents I met on this messageboard.

apollonia666 wrote: Where are you going, Remy?

Moving to Williamsburg next week, Apollonia. I will dearly miss inexpensive Clamato juice from Cepeda Grocery

jimmylegs wrote: [quote=OnEasternParkway]Just reading this thread for the first time, but wanted to make sure it's allright to identify myself as being from the neighborhood:

1) I've lived in North Carolina, Kansas, Texas, and even Jersey. I've been in NY/NJ for 4.5 years and PH/CH for 1.5 years.
2) My parents have not supported me financially since college (does getting help in college make me a "trust fund" baby?)
3) I own a pair of retro-Nike shoes, but I like them un-ironically
4) My GF and I doubt that we will be able to afford living in Brooklyn for more than another 4-5 years, and intend on leaving at that point.

Am I ok, or should I go back to where I came from?

this brings up a good point. i've known people who have used and abused brooklyn, treating it like a trip to disneyworld. those people do exist. but also i have friends who worry that if trends continue they will be forced to move out of the city altogether because they can't afford it. they dont' want to leave, but barring winning the lottery, affordable housing is getting increasingly scarce for people on a tight budget. no one would accuse them of the same crimes as the transients, right? even so, their actions become part of the whole rent-jacking going on all over brooklyn.

meanwhile, there are the new homeowners (like some of the folks who hang out at brownstoner.com) who on the surface seem dedicated to their neighborhoods, but once there immediately want to re-style the entire area to their (bland) tastes. that to me is more pernicious than the in-and-out transients.


p.s. i'm one of the many ohio transplants, circa 2000.

I'm planning on leaving. i make good $$ but as a single parent, I can't afford to rent or buy here anymore (unless I want to raise a teenager in a studio)

bye bye Brooklyn

I wux bern in manhattan

Maui, Central America...sounds like you have a good time DrabRabbit! The city definitely makes me want to just sell everything and backpack around rural areas.

kosherdave wrote: [quote=devincf] They rush into "cool" areas, jack the rents up and then blow out back to the suburbs after doing their three to five obligatory years in NYC.

Nice way of looking at it. I am sure we "transplants" rushed in and jacked up the rent. Maybe the ass-hole NY landlords are the ones you should have a problem with. They seem to be taking advantage of "transplants" at the expense of the locals. Then the locals blame the "transplant." Nice simple-minded thinking.

Would like to know who put a gun to these people's heads and forced them to live in ONLY Park Slope, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, or Williamsburg, and NOWHERE ELSE.

Wait, could it be that they're willing to shell out any amount to live in our previously unremarkable neighborhoods out of their own free will :?: I refuse to believe it. :ncool:

There are about two dozen neighborhoods in this borough which are half the price, would love to know how the Park Slope landlords are controlling yuppie thoughts and "taking advantage of them" with exorbitant rents. If anyone's got any insights I'd love to hear them. :thumright:

Realize this quote is a year old but I thought I'd show how ridiculous 'blame-the-landlords' reasoning is in the current situation.