I hate to break this to you, but many of the folks who are going for 2-6 year college degrees are still being forced into McJobs in America due to the outsourcing and collapse of small business here. When someone has to pay to go to school, even a state run school and rack up $70,000 in loans and the only job they can get is a job that pays $7.00 an hour flipping burgers there's not a whole lot worse foreigners buying rich folks property can do to harm that person.
The only poor folks in Manhattan and Long Island are the homeless. My entire salary for the month wouldn't cover a months rent in Long Island. If you branch out to the Bronx or Harlem, that's a different ballgame, however, that's changing as well. Harlem especially, it's become popular for the upper middle class to live in Harlem, due to the cultural history and what not. So, what were once homes for poor black folks, are now being changed into novelty homes for upper class white folks. So, poor blacks are out, wealthy white folks are in.
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Date: 2007-11-18 02:39 pm (UTC)The only poor folks in Manhattan and Long Island are the homeless. My entire salary for the month wouldn't cover a months rent in Long Island. If you branch out to the Bronx or Harlem, that's a different ballgame, however, that's changing as well. Harlem especially, it's become popular for the upper middle class to live in Harlem, due to the cultural history and what not. So, what were once homes for poor black folks, are now being changed into novelty homes for upper class white folks. So, poor blacks are out, wealthy white folks are in.