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

It depends on the area. If you are on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn it's become little Arabia. If you're in Flushing Queens it's little Asia. If you're in Williamsburg, or Crown Heights, it's Little Israel. City Line and East New York has become Little Central America. So it all depends on where you go. So much for assimilation.

 

Yes. It's crazy.

 

Have you checked recently? I am skeptical.

 

Finally - some substantive evidence!

 

I travelled back to New York recently and it has changed a lot. The "psychopaths" roaming the city seem more numerous than I remember and someplace, near Grand Central, had an area where Muslims would openly pray and taunt people passing on the sidewalk they continually blocked with their mats. It was odd.

San Francisco has become worse though, IMO. Openly hostile homeless. Two of my friends were out late and they rescued a woman who was attacked by a small group of them. They ripped away her purse but they got it back for her, with all the money, ID's, etc.

 

Don't go strolling through the park unless you're prepared to get mugged.

 

Liberals are a plague. They screw up CA and move to CO and now have really screwed it up. Soon, ditto Texas. NY, Boston, Chicago liib's have been infesting FL for years, and it's beginning to take it's toll here, too. They want BIG Gov, high taxes, then when they get what they advocated for slither out and promote the same BS wherever they land.

 

Yeah you are screwed. Lol

 

I'm confused by this. How can there be different taxes in different states? Aren't your tax rates universal?

 

There was a similar article years ago on the net RE: California by the LAT, and it was a lot of numbers juggling.

People going back to Mexico and so forth.

The truth is: half of those surveyed in NY want to leave but can't afford it. I don't want to badmouth anyones town, I know it hurts when people badmouth my home town of Detroit.

But the last time I took the Amtrak train thru Chicago, it was 1997. It looked like a nuclear bomb had hit it, what with all the crumbled, burnt out buildings, enormous piles of rubble, huge piles of metal girders and cement. No exaggeration, it looked like we had just lost WW II.








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No. Some states have an income tax, others don't. Property taxes vary from state to state. Others have sales taxes, cigarette taxes, gas taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes....

 

In Connecticut property taxes vary from tiwn to town.

 

Re the OP. We have a state in this country which is generally regarded as Progressive HQ. The capital city of that state is a monocultural nightmare. I used to like it, many years ago. But now when I visit it feels like I'm visiting the 1950's - in the sense that everyone looks the same. Wall to wall hipsters. And I say that as someone who lives in a fairly hipster heavy area.

 

Interesting. That must be a nightmare to negotiate.

We don't have property taxes here (on primary residences), and our income taxes are national.

 

I love NY. Great restaurants, museums and Broadway of course. Would I live there? No way in hades...But it is not bad for a long weekend with the wife.

 

Seriously? That's insane! What possible benefit is there to so much state autonomy?

No wonder America is in a mess. No cohesion.

 

New York city was an exciting place to visit for me. I really enjoyed my brief time in the city.
I would never live there. Too many people, the noise never stops and the smell is icky. Also the city is destroyed in every movie. It's a fun place to visit but if you stay too long a terrorist, title wave or space monster will eventually get you.

 

It very common for property taxes, along with other taxes, vary from town to town. A town with little to no industry or businesses relies solely on property taxes.

 

Isn't it best to be governed by locals you know rather than faceless bureaucrats several thousand miles away?

 

Here is an interesting article on the Census Data Shed Light on 2020 Redistricting since New York may well lose a congressional seat.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...shed_light_on_2020_redistricting__132623.html

 

Too funny, flyover country, uneducated rubes whining about
NYC

 

I would think it would lead to all sorts of inequities and potential corruptions, actually. I want my tax dollars handled and spent by 'faceless bureaucrats' precisely because they don't have vested interests.

 

Only if you stay on the main streets and Avenues of Manhattan.

 

Can you give me your definition of what you consider to be an educated person?

 

Too funny ... elitist tossers sneer at those who are probably smarter than them. Because they have the 'wrong' address.