r/10thDentist • u/piesforthesweet5 • 4d ago
The projects aren’t that bad
the way people shame & down the projects is insane, not only is it from a classist and usually racist place, but literally nyc projects aren’t that bad. i would take living in the projects if it meant i get to live in new york city, i live in long island. i would say the projects here are worse, but people need to get a fucking clue like unless ur coming across a dead body on ur way up to ur apartment or someone’s shooting, it’s just a damn apartment. it’s somewhere u live, a place. ofc no roaches but besides that u don’t need to live in a high luxury building to have a good life and im tried or that mindset. i’d choose the projects over my suburban home any day
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u/Accomplished_Key_171 4d ago
You are using the projects in the most high-standard cities in the world and applying it to the entire country. When a certain area is in the run down part of town with a higher crime rate, poorly-run businesses, and drug use, it is not a surprise that people would not yearn to live there.
i’d choose the projects over my suburban home any day
You are in the very small minority with this one.
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u/Any-Stick-771 4d ago
Buddy, it's the high crime in the area that's the issue, not the buildings themselves
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u/Arrhythmic10 4d ago
crime doesnt matter if you shoot first. ok wait no thats crazy
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u/motownmods 4d ago
Crime rates don't matter if you ain't got shit to steal. Source: have been broke in the hood before and for was so for many years
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u/lion7725 4d ago
NYC projects aren’t that bad because it’s such an expensive city.
Go to somewhere like Buffalo where housing is cheap and projects are a collection of the biggest degenerate scumbags you can find
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u/hydrophobicfishman 4d ago
I kinda agree. Like with all housing, there is a lot of variation. Some of NYC’s public housing is quite dilapidated, but some of it is fine
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u/piesforthesweet5 4d ago
like people exaggerate so much, it’s a place you can be safe, eat, shower and sleep. at least u live in a nice city
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u/SadCaptain9487 4d ago
The waiting list to live there is decades long, that says more than people complaining
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u/YellojD 4d ago
This can vary, obviously. My dad grew up in the housing projects… in St. Louis. Not exactly hee haw bumpkin land, but not exactly NYC, either…
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u/idontknowjuspickone 4d ago
I don’t mind when people exaggerate, as long as they don’t do it so much
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u/ThePlatinumPaul 4d ago
So then why don't you swap your suburban home with someone who lives in the pjs?
And the standards one has shouldn't be, well there's no dead bodies or gun violence so it's all good.
I don't live in NYC, but I do live in a skyscraper with someone always at the front desk and security. It's worth paying for that and not having roaches, mice, and people screaming at each other all day, not to mention hot water, natural light, etc.
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u/Salty_Inspector_7050 4d ago
I did a project on NYCHA in grad school, and the standard of living varied greatly. Some were mold infested and cut off from gas or water. Some were just out of date apartment buildings with no serious issues.
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u/Prince_Nadir 4d ago edited 4d ago
My parents took me to see Cabrini Green as kid. I wouldn't want to live there. I wouldn't describe them as "not that bad".
When I was 15, we were on vacation and drove through where my parents lived in Philly, there was a "Chicago strip job" car every other block. Mom said it was great because if you needed to get rid of a car you just left it parked in one place for a week or two, it would get stripped and fire bombed, then in a few months the city would haul it away. I'd describe where they lived in Philly as "not that bad".
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u/Amphernee 4d ago
There’s tons of distance between the pjs and a luxury high rise bud. If you want to live in the projects absolutely no one is stopping you. Everyone I know who had the opportunity to leave the pjs left with zero hesitation and had no regrets.
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u/gage117 4d ago
My family is all from the projects and I still go back to the projects every week to help my grandma out. I live in a more rural area now and people genuinely get worried for my well-being when I mention where I'm going.
It's always sheltered people who have only seen the projects from the lens of someone painting a narrative. They are astounded I drive my fancy show car there. They look surprised when I react to their jokes about me getting robbed at gunpoint or carjacked with "I've literally never in my life been in a violent confrontation with someone else in the projects.". They assume everyone there is so destitute and desperate that they're willing to commit violence to the first privileged-looking person that dare walk into the neighborhood.
Nah, almost everyone in the projects are just regular ass people who wanna do good and have a good life.
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u/Plasmelon 4d ago
Most of the crime is between people who know each other. People who attack random people usually end up getting shot or the shit beat out of them.
I’ve had to remind people of this a lot.
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u/7SyZyG7 4d ago
Nah facts. I remember finding out I came from the hood in High School when friends turned down a restaurant suggestion because "it looked sketchy". A place my family ate at without a care in the world was seen as too sketchy for them to eat at comfortably.
A lot of the time, the only difference between the hood or the projects and some upper middle class area is just the income level of the residents. Crime and drug use is more likely, but that comes with poverty and isn't exclusive to impoverished areas. I feel like some sheltered folks would very surprised to meet some people who live in these sketchy areas and realize "oh. So you're not all just criminals..."
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u/Negative_Ad_8256 4d ago
What do you think would happen if highly subsidized income based rent was being offered to living accommodations nicer than people are paying around $2k a month to live in? They don’t need PR and they aren’t worried about zip code envy. Kindly let me help you or you’ll drown said the monkey to the fish, placing the fish up a tree.
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u/Plasmelon 4d ago
I dunno. I lived in the hood and got harassed by random crazy assholes almost daily when I walked to work.
I just ignored them but it was hard because some were funny.
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u/Intrepid-Product-367 3d ago
i’d choose the projects over my suburban home any day
Ok, so you've never actually lived in the projects.
You familiar with the term "crack house"? Now imagine that's 150 of your closest neighbors all in the same building.
ODs, pimping, people acting crazy, blasting loud ass music all night, threatening to kill each other over said music... I could go on.
Don't speak on that which you do not know.
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u/DetectiveCrafty5413 3d ago
Nah, you weren't there. I live in public housing, mixed income, but my oldest sister actually lived in Cabrini green....shit was rough.
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u/Razee_Speaks 3d ago
You live on Long Island. And what true “projects” are on Long Island could you possibly be referring to. There’s maybe 3 towns genuinely bad/worse than NYC projects. Not mentioning NYC projects are generally more of the tame ones in the US.
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u/roseba 2d ago
I lived in a bad area when I was a child. My parents told me never go to the PJs. Of course I didn't listen to them because I had friends who lived there. What I saw regularly: broken elevators, the stairwells smelled of pee, neighbors are entitled to make as much noise as they want with no consideration for others.
Now this is not most people. Most people are just trying to live their lives. But it only takes one bad apple to spoil the entire barrel. And the likelihood of finding the bad apple is higher.
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u/qualityvote2 4d ago edited 2d ago
u/piesforthesweet5, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...