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Businesses are going everywhere but New York
New York Post ^
| 05/26/2014
| By John Aidan Byrne
Posted on 05/26/2014 6:13:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: rktman
I'm in the process of relocating to the NYC area and it looks like I'm going to spend $500k at a minimum to get a house there. The only saving grace is that I'm moving from the Boston area which is just as insane with regard to cost of living. I guess that's why I got the job. Candidates from most other parts of the country would just not be able to swing the housing cost - unless they want to live in Bronx or Queens.
I've been looking in areas around Greenwich, CT; Tarrytown, NY and Ramsey, NJ and see endless neighborhoods of million dollar homes. I wonder how it can be that so many people can afford to live there but apparently it is being done. NYC might be on the decline but it's still the largest metro area in the country by far.
To: babble-on
People vote with their feet... New York’s becoming a liberal hellhole. Not as bad as Detroit, but on the way...
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posted on
05/26/2014 8:51:08 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Someone explain why {the MSM} uses the term liberal to describe totalitarian sociopaths? BruceinOz)
To: eyedigress
Yep, it’s all in the database now. I’m not saying that’s a good thing but its just the way it is.
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posted on
05/26/2014 8:52:38 AM PDT
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: SeekAndFind
This article is sooo wrong. California is at the bottom of my list. THEN New York.
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posted on
05/26/2014 8:56:10 AM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
To: RetSignman
...the far left liberals in NY will use fees to reclaim the money they lose in taxes. Or do the same thing California did: decide they were losing too much money with their business-friendly tax laws and pass a new law guaranteed to bring in more revenue by deciding that the current laws were too lenient and pass a newer and more restrictive taxing scheme and make it retroactive.
So all those businesses that had saved so much in less taxes over the years now found themselves liable for several years worth of 'back taxes'.
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posted on
05/26/2014 8:58:33 AM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: molson209; SeekAndFind
Maybe New York should institute caning and the death penalty for drug trafficking.
46
posted on
05/26/2014 9:00:50 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: SamAdams76
I get it. It’s just a shame you have to stay in a part of the country that was once the cradle of liberty, now a bastion of liberalism. I know there’s lots of folks in the northeast that, if circumstances permitted, would be long gone. Good luck with the move, house hunting and your job.
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:03:45 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
To: citizen
No, not any more. That’s the way it USED to be — before they had the police linked to a central insurance database. That’s kind of what the poster was complaining about, as evidence of a “fascist state.”
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:07:33 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
To: rktman
Well I look at it this way, maybe my conservative vote will mean something in the Northeast someday. Remember that a solid 40% of the Northeast votes against the Democrats. The pendulum doesn't have to swing as far as you think. We just need to change the minds of 10% of the people here to achieve parity.
To: SeekAndFind
Not sad. America has ALWAYS been about making your own choices. They chose differently from you.
But what’s sad, is that I can understand why they gave up being US Cits. . .
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:18:47 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
To: SeekAndFind
Just a matter of time until the next Fed bailout of NYC.
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:20:30 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: cloudmountain
Some of them will bring their families to California.
The ones who will be more successful in the long run are the ones who will take their work experience back to India and run competing businesses in the same product fields from a part of the world with a more rational regulation structure.
Exact parallel for this?
Who did better in the Sixties and Seventies - auto engineers who came to the US and worked with the industry here, or the ones who went back to Asia and worked for Toyota or Mitsubishi or what is today Kia?
Short term it looked like the ones who stayed here. Long and medium term, it was the ones who went back to Asia.
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:25:27 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: babble-on
I love the taste of schadenfreude in the morning.
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:28:09 AM PDT
by
allblues
(God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
To: LOC1
You raise good points there, but some of those moves began some years ago — and are also tied to changes in corporate operations in the aftermath of the Exxon-Mobil merger.
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:33:57 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
To: SamAdams76
Well, based on the recent election results in the UK, there is hope. Seems like UKIP has upset the apple cart a tad.
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:39:00 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
To: Alberta's Child
Ah, I see. And even though I said paper insurance cards were ‘backward’, I’m not comforted by all our personal data being in government databases.
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posted on
05/26/2014 9:55:52 AM PDT
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: SeekAndFind
One of the more challenging aspects of living and working in NYC is dodging the little questions meant to reveal one as a fully human being, i.e., a Liberal, or a subhuman cretin, i.e., a Conservative.
Just yesterday, I met a lovely couple with their toddler son. Almost immediately, I was asked if I listened to NPR. Twenty years ago the question was, "Did you see that article in today's Times?" A few months ago it was, "I'm asking people to sponsor me for the (insert leftist charity here) and I'm hoping you'll sign up."
Liberals will not let you live. It is the Fascist Impulse.
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posted on
05/26/2014 10:01:18 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Oratam
“It is the fascist impulse.”
They are the real life body snatchers.
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posted on
05/26/2014 10:09:02 AM PDT
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: SamAdams76
Paramus, NJ has low property taxes due to all the malls. Ho-Ho-Kus has lower property taxes due to not having a high school to support. Glen Rock is a charming little town with good schools and excellent train service to NY.
There really is no such thing as "affordable" in North Jersey.
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posted on
05/26/2014 10:11:58 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Alberta's Child
It's more than just taxes.
I've dealt with a number of businesses in light to heavy industries that fled New York State because they say it has the highest workers' compensation insurance rates in the nation -- by a huge margin.
The saga of the GE plant in Hudson Falls and the massive clean-up costs they've been forced to pay is another case in point about why New York is such a miserable place to do business.You've made your point, in spades.
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