Pack the City, We’re Moving! - Each year, one Yonkers leaves New York for friendlier climes.

City Journal ^ | 11 February 2009 | John M. Murtagh

[McGavin999]

New York is being killed. Seriously. The only “business” that was left was Wall Street and the financial industry and look at what’s happening to them lately. New York is going to soon be on life support.

[bpjam]

.....and then they dilute the voter pool in that Red State.

Oregon used to be a moderate state. So was Washington. New Hampshire anyone?

Yeah, these blue staters ruin their own habitat and then seek a newer fresher one to destroy with the same tax and spend, big government voting that brought them to hate their old homeland (while they still remain deeply attached to the old hometown and put it on their license plates or fly Mets flags on their cars in October).

Seen it. Not liking it. Most of them should be FORCED to stay where they are. There should be litmus tests to get a drivers license in a Red State involving the US Constitution and tax rates. The crazy woman who started the entire smoking ban movement in CA decided that CA was just too lousy for her so she moved to Las Vegas and she started the smoking nazi movement here!!! What the hell do we need this kind of immigration for? We’re better off with Mexican illegals because they are less likely to vote and at least they work.

[printhead]

It wasn’t that long ago that our former junior senator and now sos promised to bring 250,000 jobs to NYS.

[Fraxinus]

I would prefer it wasn't filled with New Yorker complaining that they can't get good pizza

Tell them that is what Adolf Coors said about American beer.

[neverdem]

.....and then they dilute the voter pool in that Red State.

Why does almost everyone seem to assume that it's liberals who want to leave NY? See comment# 20.

[garyhope]

Coors?

“Colorado Kool Aid” is what they call it in Texas.

[Kackikat]

Is it about money, or changing from red to blue as they did in NC by bringing in large groups of northern dems, who badmouthed republican policies?

[poobear]

No offense. But how can you not take up our sentiments when EVERY southern state lately turning Liberal Democrat has been by these sub=cultural transplants.

My most conservative county this last election turned my county seat over to a liberal tort lawyer promising larger benifits to seniors.

Voter fraud? Probably. But give me a break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MplsSteve]

Florida is the same way.

Have you ever been over on the Atlantic coast side?

They all seem to be from New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

And trust me, they bring their voting habits with ‘em.

The wrong voting habits!

[MaxMax]

They voted themselves out of the city, and coming to a town near you
to try it again in hopes they get it right "again".

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The liberal NYers moved here to CA and ruined it. We don’t need any more of their “exports.”

[Cacique]

the left is not interested in these arguments and could care less. What they want is unfettered and total power even if it wrecks the economy. These people are about power, just like Mugabe in Zimbabwe and the people who run Detroit and Philadelphia etc.. Power for them, misery for us.

[lovecraft]

Changing from red to blue is my biggest concern. I remember listening to a yankee that was working in convenience store complain and complain about how at her union job she was making more, etc. etc.

I am fine with bringing in conservatives, but I'll be damned if this state turns into another blue North Carolina.

[bpjam]

My father in-law and mother-in-law were in that crowd back in the 1950s. FDR democrats. And then, almost my osmosis, the entire generation of my in-laws ended up migrating to Las Vegas. They all moved independently of each other and frequently without the others knowledge.

Florida got it bad too. I hate to say it but whenever I hear another Jewish retiree is coming to Las Vegas I secretly cringe. And I’ve been making a very nice living from that exact demographic (and I’m Jewish). They just won’t change. The younger generation we see a lot less political rigidity and insanity but the boomers are a waste of time and breathe. They’ll go to Mt. Sinai voting for whomever has a (D) after their name no matter how noxious.

[bpjam]

(Why does almost everyone seem to assume that it’s liberals who want to leave NY?)....personal experience.

I’ve practiced real estate in LV for nearly a decade and I’ve seen a great cross section of the people who are looking to relocate. It’s still mostly people from NYC moving out of the state and not people from the less liberal rural areas who are fleeing. I wish it weren’t the case but even liberals want to the quality of life that us Red Staters have. And they love not having to pay income taxes. But they still vote for people who love abortion, hate guns, want to end talk radio and much of the other list of do-gooder policies.

And being in Las Vegas, I probably get an infinitely better pool of immigrants from NY than they do in FL where they are moving from one dark blue city to another (like Boca Raton, Miami, etc). They all love the no-income-tax benefits but then they vote for guys who lard up the government so that an income tax becomes inevitable. Sad. Unescapably sad.

[Kackikat]

NC has tanked in my opinion, but Asheville was declared little San Fran 15+ yrs ago when we had one of those strange mayors...and although there is a large Christian population it seems with all the northern transplants it was enough to go blue.
I believe SC is going to face some of this in future, with all the new manufacturing like BMW in Greer. Those libs from Michigan and other car plants that laid off will be headed to SC for jobs...