New Yorkers shocked to find that people are fleeing their city in droves

Great city if you're a rich white progressive. Everyone else can't afford to live there. San Francisco is pretty much the same way. Amazing how so many of the diversity loving white progressives just-so-happen to live in areas where most minorities cannot afford to live.

 

New York has five boroughs and they aren't all rich like lower Manhattan. Have you ever been anywhere near there?

 

New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves. The inmates are the guards, they have this pride in this thing they've built, they've built their own prison. They exist in a state of schizophrenia, where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result, they no longer have the capacity to leave the prison they've made, or to even see it as a prison.
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Escape before it's too late!!

 

Me thinks you people watch too many movies...

 

Living in NYC means that you are surrounded by crime, inflated cost of living, corrupt liberal politicians control everything, a constant smell of raw sewage, and it's getting worse by the day. Don't get me wrong, I love to visit, great food and all, but there is no way in hell I would ever live there.

 

Terrific city...filled with many wonderful people.

Unfortunately...lots of people allow their envy of the city to cloud their minds...and to spew hate.

Well...New Yorkers can take it...and the hate spewers have to spew. So...

 

As I said earlier, I grew up a mile from NYC on the Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge, and I'm here to tell you that your opinion of The City (that's what people from the area call NYC) would be different if you had visited prior to Rudy Giuliani cleaning the place up. The crime was horrible and it would spread out into the 'burbs. I swear this is true: We used to see black kids walking across the GWB and when they went back they were riding on a bike and steering a second one with their free hand. I lived 1/2 mile from the bridge toll booths and I can tell you, if you had something and it wasn't nailed down it was going to end up in The City.

As far as being in The City in the summer, the humidity must not bother you, I always found it smothering.

 

I've been visiting the city since the early 1960's, Steve...long before Rudolph Giuliani became what he considered dictator. I gotta acknowledge that things in the city were not as nice around Times Square and Bryant Park back a few years, but MUCH of the remediation credited to Giuliani was a result of moves Ed Koch made years before Giuliani came to the throne.

Things were not as nice in the old days. I grant you that.

Right now...I love the place.

I live in central New Jersey. Humidity is nothing new to me.

But a nice cruise on the Hudson...or spending some time at the Frying Pan...can put ya in a great mood.

 

Well, I know a tree grows in Brooklyn - right?

 

I like NYC. It's not my favorite place to go nor would I want to live there, but I still enjoy the atmosphere nonetheless when traveling there. Kansas City is nice too.

 

Yes, and Brooklyn still has the same mix of oxygen and nitrogen as the rest of the country.

 

I visited NYC in the mid 80's with my dad. Caught a show. Went there several other times for ball games. Got to sit in the right field bleachers behind Dave Winfield at the House that Ruth Built, watched Darryl Strawberry play high as a kite at old Shea stadium, and went to see Cats(it was the 80's man). It felt so dirty and gross, but I enjoyed the ballparks and broadway. What was more entertaining to me was the history within driving distance(dad lived in North Jersey).

Saw: philly and it's history, where Washington crossed the Delaware, tons of revolutionary battle sites, just so much history up there.

 

I love NY but it is too darn expensive to live there.

 

Lots of trees in God's Country, especially in Prospect Park:

 

What's the Frying Pan? That's a new one.

When I moved out to CA from NJ I ended up taking a two different girlfriends to NJ for a visit which included a trip through The City. Yes, they were impressed, but the wall-to-wall people was something they weren't used to, same thing with the insane cab drivers. But they loved the pizza. Nothing is better than the pizza in the Tri-State area. Even the hotdogs are the best. (and bagels)

 

They're moving out because they can get a fortune for their homes. Price per sq. foot in Manhattan has risen pretty consistently since 2009.

 

The Pan is an old lightship that has been refurbished and attached to a pier jutting out into the Hudson.

Probably the premier party spot in the city during the summer. Great place.

The Frying Pan is the boat in the back. The John Harvey, in front of it, is a decommissioned fireboat. It assisted in taking people off the island on 9/11.

 

I also grew up in the suburbs and will never go back ... not even to visit.

 

Is it enough to lower rent and mortgage to a feasible cost?

 

The house I grew up in near the city is 1,300 square feet, plus an unfinished basement and a one car garage. It's on 1/10 of an acre. The appraised value is over $1 million.

No thanks.

 

Exactly! I do miss the Pizza though. 3rd best in the world.

 

I was one who left. I lived in NYC, but you can't afford to live there. Too many people, too much traffic, everything is too expensive, taxes are too high, de Blasio, sanctuary city, etc. Democrats have totally ruined it.

 

And you'd be paying property taxes on that $1 mil.

 

Leaving the sanctuary city? Well, it will look like south of the border and the middle east in a few decades unless trump can reverse the course of this ship.

The town close to me experienced the same movement of people over the years. They moved into the county, and what was once a thriving town is no more. 99 percent of the city schools are black, infected with a mentality that is adverse to white culture here, and the schools which used to be great schools now look like reform schools for teens. To be fair, the middle class black folk moved into the county too, to get their kids away from the in the hood black culture that kills future success for its people unless you can make it rapping or hip hopping. Or perhaps in basket ball or football. My wife taught in this school system for 30 years, watching it rot before her eyes. She finally could take no more and since we lived in the county, finished up at the school we both graduated from.

 

The middle class and middle working class have been fleeing New York city since the late 1940's when the WW II GI's started fleeing to Long Island curtesy of the GI Bill for home mortgages.