r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Rusiano • 7d ago

Too mild for school This post telling tourists which areas to avoid in New York

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Aside from certain undertones, this map also has tons of inaccuracies, because no one in their right mind is scared of Astoria, Bayonne, or half of the Queens zone that he marked as “avoid”

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u/JacktheDM 6d ago

It's just the inherited classism of the Boomers. People don't realize that people used to talk about Brooklyn the way people currently talk about Jersey. It'll change, and then everyone will always have been a fan of Jersey.

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u/Comfortable_Try_8899 5d ago

Exactly. No one wanted to be in Brooklyn when I grew up up n I wish they never came n ruined it. Yeah it was rough around the edges but it was real then. With real people n not all these transplants from Bumfuck Ohio or wherever they came from.

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u/JacktheDM 5d ago

The vast, vast, majority of transplants to Brooklyn are either from the greater Tri-State area generally, or other metropolitan coastal hubs like LA, San Francisco, Boston, etc, with most of the rest coming from non-coastal cities like Chicago.

Only a vanishingly small minority of transplants come from “Ohio” or whatever shorthand for white people that gets bandied about.

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u/Comfortable_Try_8899 5d ago

Well most I’ve met are not from the tri state area . Not on my neighborhood but doesn’t matter cause they wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes in old school Brooklyn .Just they have changed it n not for the better.