>and most of the (black) kids i knew were from mad diff places
>around queens: jamaica, hollis, laurelton, st albans, jackson
>heights, flushing, ozone park, etc
>all bougie in their own way compared to other boro girls hell
>even a lil more bougie than rockland girls and rockland is the
>suburbs

those hoods were the ones I was referring to
yeah I definitely see it out there
I have a homegirl who stays out in Cambria
i love her to death but her friends?
o_O
in thinking about this post some more last night
I really think it's a new money/old money thing because growing up in Forest Hills, you didn't see the kind of flashing/bragging that you saw in say Laurelton. Girls would come to school with relatively recent model Lexuses, Beemers on some "oh that old thing? my parents just got a new car so I got the old one" and shrug it off.
Let it be a girl from Jamaica Estates or Cambria tho

The same mobility that led Queens to be the only county in the mid 2000s in the US where Black people had a higher median income than White people also helped mold that kind of bougie mentality I think.

Even me personally, I have both bougie and ratchet tendencies but I lean more towards ratchet because that's how I grew up and that's what I'm most comfortable with even with my mom moving us to Forest Hills and working her way up the corporate ladder throughout my childhood. Even living in a neighborhood with old money, I grew up so broke that I couldn't stunt on anybody even if I wanted to. This post has been enlightening for sure because this is the first that I've ever heard Queens girls EVER be categorized as bougie. No one I was close to coming up would ever be classified as bougie but I don't gravitate to people with that mentality to begin with.

here for dis.