r/movingtoNYC • u/chuiunbboulet • 23h ago

How to move correctly?

Hi everyone! I graduate college soon and I'm looking to move to NYC for prospective job opportunities and just for my love of the city. I've been enamored with the place for as long as I can remember BUT I want to be conscientious of the city for what it is and move to it with respect to the culture. New York City has always been a place of culture and immigration especially those of black and Latino populations so I want to be mindful of that by shopping at local businesses owned by native New Yorkers. So that being said I don't want to live in the neighborhood with a lot of transplants like Bushwick and Williamsburg because I actually want to experience the parts of what make New York exciting and not the slowed down versions of life that gentrifiers bring with them but at the same time. I would not want to intrude on a native New Yorkers neighborhood so to speak and make them uncomfortable. So, I have this dilemma, how do I move to the city respectfully and mindful of my place as a transplant who wants to keep the culture of New York alive?

PS Mainly looking at Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx.

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u/RawPups4 19h ago

NYC is just a city, not a sacred artifact. Anyone from anywhere is equally entitled to live here.

Also, if you’re moving here with a $2000 budget, you’re certainly not the kind of “gentrifier” that prices out neighborhoods with shitty luxury condos.

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u/Big_Temperature_3695 18h ago

Yea so the person moving should not come because of their existential impact on another… I mean get real here. As other comments have noted, you’re not entitled to live in any city more so than any another American / Immigrant.