life update!! living alone, travel plans, is it worth living in san diego?

I totally understand that empty feeling when you're not seeing a lot of people like yourself in the community. As a fellow brown girl in SD, I feel it too. As far as swim clubs go, I want to check out one at the YMCA because I miss the pool!

Love to see someone else like me living in a place I've always been dying to go too. Everyone keeps telling me to just go for it and go to SD and I always stop myself. I still want to visit first, I love my city but I need something new. But do what is best for you and I know wherever you'll go, you'll thrive

🍓🍒🍑🍇 I love the sink or swim mindset - I definitely need to put myself in more situations that challenge me (but can lead to great gains)! Another great video

Girl! Come to Charlotte, NC! 😊

Don't leave!!!! You're right Mission and Pacific Beach really do not have a lot of diversity. I use to walk Mission Beach every morning and I was the only black person. Nice Q&A.

oh wow!! as another black girl, im surprised to hear how small the black community is over there... i didn't even think about that 😢 but im glad you've enjoyed your time in san diego so far 🫶🏽 where would you live next? love the content as always!! 🍓🍒🍑🍇

QUEEN!!!!

Come visit Denver. The weather is great! 300 sunny days a year.

Literally so gorgeous it’s insane!!!

Really Enjoyed This Q&A All About You Devon Period Until Next Time✅✌️

My absolute dream. Love San Diego

🍓🍒I live in culver city and have the same issue, there are very few black people in many of our areas so all of my friends are hispanic or white/asian I canc ount on one hand the black friends I have and like you said yes your friends wil always be great and understanding but friends of the same race tend to relate more to cultural things we grow up with. I have Nigerian friends and sometimes they mention stuff that i cant relate to as a non nigerian but then ill mention Polynesian things that they dont understand so its really beneficial to have those close friends of the same race. Same with dating im fine with dating outside of my race but sometimes cultural things will set us apart and its hard to explain why our families do certain things or why something is important to us but not to them.

Do you think that your Major for your bachelor’s degree was a waste since your main career now is social media/content creation?

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Pittsburgh is similar. 😅 It’s segregated here and cloudy… but it is a peculiar city! Worth a visit for anyone but rated one of the worst cities for black women. Don’t move here! 🥴

As a woman of color and much older than you, I have still never understood the "I need to see people like me" type of mindset. I totally disagree with you when you say that "there are just some things that only someone in the "black community" can understand. I don't understand that either-"This black community" what community is that exactly? And i'm saying all this just to make you think make you and others think. Do you truly feel that way or do you feel that you have to say that because people have told you that? Believe me I have lived almost all of my life well-- I should say my younger years- teenager and younger being called all kinds of names by people of my race because I really truly refuse to see color and I am of the mindset that there is no such community. The community is your environment. It's the environment that you grew up in. just because you may be of the same race or skin color of someone else does not mean that you grew up the same way with the same values with the same anything and that is the danger --that is why we are in so much trouble as a society because people have brought into that freaking mindset and are pretty much brainwashed into believing it. If how you grew up and what you experienced growing up is different than the majority of other people of your race, there's something wrong with that. Or for people to make you feel like you're so odd or different or that there's something wrong with you because you think differently again based on the environment you grew up in and the belief systems that you have, that's absolutely not true. Where is it written that we're all supposed to have the same experience and think the same way? This has always bothered me nd I promise you Devon, I've had the same attitude and opinion since I was probably five or six years old. Anybody in my family can tell you that and what was so discouraging was that people told me as I grew olde that I would understand more and I would change my mind and I wouldn't feel that way well. I feel this way even stronger. I feel that a lot of the things that people say perpetuate racism and perpetuate the division. And it's little things that people don't even think about. But you need to think about it, if you want to be the change, be the change and just be more aware of the way you think and the things you say and when I say "you" I'm not speaking of you specifically, I'm saying that, as a generalization. To assume that you have more in common with someone just because they have the same skin color as you is just totally not true and I know that first hand and am speaking of experience. Many many years of it. I hope. You receive the snow spirit in which it is intended period it's not to berate you or can make you feel any certain kind of way but it's just to really make you think I mean, truly make you think you are a very intelligent lady and I would like to think that if you were. To sit down and just actually as you go through your data. Data data data data data data data. Go through your day to day life. Just think about what i've said and maybe just maybe you will see that i'm right and you will start living your life more like that and bringing others along with you. And then that person will influence someone else's thinking and that person will change someone else and so on and so on and so on. Just take it one step at a time, one person at a time.

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