>>1699439They're not poor, they just pretend to be because it gives them "street cred" and they feel that if they aren't given a $10M brownstone on Carrie Bradshaw's block on account of being a white transplant who watched a ton of friends and SATC, that it means the city isn't "liveable".
Refusing to get an adult job and riding around bed-stuy on a fixie is pretend poverty. When they get sick of it they'll buy a $250k McMansion and complain on
yimby.org that the brown man is keeping urban real estate prices too high and there oughtta be a law