as someone who wants to move there i'm concerned about how gentrification will affect rent prices. i always thought it's impossible to live there without a tech job and paycheck.
you need a paycheck to live anywhere, but it does not need to be a tech job. keep in mind that brooklyn is much, much more than just williamsburg, greenpoint, etc. it's a hundred different places. it's just places and more places, as far as the eye can see. there's also queens (what's queens?) that's right, it's more places