Closing Bell: Are You Happy to Call Brooklyn Home?
As first reported by Brooklyn Hall of Fame, an article from YourNabe.com reports that most Brooklynites are happy. In fact, 81% of those surveyed said they were either very satisfied (27%) or somewhat satisfied (54%) with the quality of life in their neighborhood. Only 19 percent of those surveyed reported being not at all satisfied….
As first reported by Brooklyn Hall of Fame, an article from YourNabe.com reports that most Brooklynites are happy. In fact, 81% of those surveyed said they were either very satisfied (27%) or somewhat satisfied (54%) with the quality of life in their neighborhood. Only 19 percent of those surveyed reported being not at all satisfied. However, 53% of Brooklynites felt their neighborhoods would become too expensive for them in the future.
So are you happy to call Brooklyn home?
quizzote:
when all the artist and muscicians living six to an apartment
oh c’mon please. this is not 1981. you know that really doesnt exist right? that is bullshit nyc sentimentality. perhaps immigrants actually WORKING to feed your asses might , but artists/? nah. most artists in nyc only and i say ONLY come here with pocketbooks fuller than most people who have worked here their entire lives.
*rob*
sam- you go where you think you’ll be happiest. More power to you. I love Brooklyn, in part because in some ways it reminds me of growing up in the Bronx. But I know I could live in a number of places and still be happy- I’m looking for leafy and clean for the future, but home is where i make it, not where the map says I am.
It will be nice to se when we get a reversal in the renting market. What is going to happen to Brooklyn when all the artist and muscicians living six to an apartment decide to move to Manhatten because of the lower rents there. Does it mean Brooklyn will have affordable rents for familis again and we see a big influx of immigrants from Jersey. We will go back to the loving family neighborhoods like the old times. We will stop turning churches into condos and we will be able to get coffee for 50 cents again. All the Starbucks will be closed for lack of business.
Brownstone Brooklyn (expensive Brooklyn) is alright. It is not as beautiful and civilized as the expensive parts of Manhattan, but for homebodies it is fine. I do think that it has a long way to go to become a truly desirable place to live. Poverty is a huge problem. So is crime. So is dirt and pollution. Let’s face it folks, we do not live in an Edenic environment. In fact, in many ways it is the pits. I have become somewhat disillusioned with Brooklyn. For me, living here is dirt cheap. My house is paid for. My taxes are low and I make a good income. But I am wondering more and more, what would it be like to live in Greenwich? or New Canaan? or Rye? Leafy, clean, rich, safe, quiet????
It is a crisis. I am heavily leaning towards safe and quiet. And the prices in certain parts of Brooklyn make the tony suburbs seem like bargains. I dunno, I may be reaching the end of this chapter.
Brooklyn is my second choice; I’d still prefer to live in Manhattan. Going back to Ohio is not an option – I need to live in NYC for work and I love NYC’s cultural offerings ( although NYC no longer has the lock on culture; the cultural diaspora has reached every corner of the universe thanks to the interwebs).
I’m here in Brooklyn because I couldn’t afford the amount of space I desired while living there. But I’ve always lived here somewhat grudgingly and I agree with the respondents who claimed that Brooklyn is overrated. In most cases I find that Brooklyn is home to people that don’t have the drive to survive in Manhattan and they overcompensate with their 718 tee shirts and Brooklyn boosterism. Brooklyn is a borough of comfortable shoes and lukewarm food – something about Manhattan’s razor sharpness is attractive to me even while I was struggling to keep up with it.
And before you tear me to pieces, I realize that Manhattan has become a corporate-sponsored playpen for rich twenty five year olds. Still, Brooklyn in contrast seems like a retirement community to me. A weekend in Brooklyn means sipping a free-trade coffee while updating your vegan blog at a cafe with ugly second-hand furniture.
Maybe I WILL move back to Ohio.
quizzote:
I think Brooklyn (and all of NYC) is really a catch 22. You can love it and hate it all at the same time. Just depends on your mood on any given day.
troof! you even had to say it thrice 🙂
*rob*
sorry, not sure why that posted three times
Kind of torn on this one. While I will always identify with Brooklyn as my home (born and raised) I can’t help but feel that it’s totally overrated. I live in Bay Ridge which has always been a solid neighborhood..maybe not as trendy as the re-born Park Slope, but we’ve held our own. I don’t think I’m blessed to live here when people are just plain nasty, cars block my driveway all day long (maybe, just maybe I will have an emergency where I really need to get my car out), kids (and adults too) seem to have no manners, the R train is basically a slum on wheels, and I can’t so much as put a garbage pail outside without it being stolen.
But then again, it’s Brooklyn and what do I expect? I am used to this. There is something about Brooklyn that I can’t quite put my finger on, but it is and will always be home. Maybe I would be slightly happier if I were one of those people priced out of Manhattan who counts their lucky stars to have only paid 1M for a house/condo..then I could feel like I got a bargain on something and that makes everything else look okay.
I think Brooklyn (and all of NYC) is really a catch 22. You can love it and hate it all at the same time. Just depends on your mood on any given day.
Kind of torn on this one. While I will always identify with Brooklyn as my home (born and raised) I can’t help but feel that it’s totally overrated. I live in Bay Ridge which has always been a solid neighborhood..maybe not as trendy as the re-born Park Slope, but we’ve held our own. I don’t think I’m blessed to live here when people are just plain nasty, cars block my driveway all day long (maybe, just maybe I will have an emergency where I really need to get my car out), kids (and adults too) seem to have no manners, the R train is basically a slum on wheels, and I can’t so much as put a garbage pail outside without it being stolen.
But then again, it’s Brooklyn and what do I expect? I am used to this. There is something about Brooklyn that I can’t quite put my finger on, but it is and will always be home. Maybe I would be slightly happier if I were one of those people priced out of Manhattan who counts their lucky stars to have only paid 1M for a house/condo..then I could feel like I got a bargain on something and that makes everything else look okay.
I think Brooklyn (and all of NYC) is really a catch 22. You can love it and hate it all at the same time. Just depends on your mood on any given day.