Posted on 10/26/2014 7:55:57 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- Manhattan is now the most unequal county in America (it was 17th in 1980), with a Gini coefficient — which measures the disparity between the richest and poorest residents — higher than that of Apartheid-era South Africa.
Between 1990 and 2010, the city’s 1% saw their median income shoot up from $452,415 to $716,625 in 2010 dollars, even as the bottom 60% hardly saw their incomes budge at all, according to a recent City University study. The trend precedes Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor who envisioned New York as a “luxury city,” and it won’t be easy for de Blasio to reverse — especially as he rolls out pricey new public-employee contracts and programs like universal pre-K that further expand the city’s dependence on its wealthiest citizens
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Both my family and my husband’s family migrated from NYC to Jersey in the 1960s. All of them were and are conservatives. Not everyone from NYC is a lib. In the 1960s, Middlesex County was Democratic.
and of course that was “San Diego” - supposedly
left NY for good when I enlisted in 1978: Family still there. I totally lost accent and all NY (rudness, swearing every other word, arrogance)attributes. Holiday dinners are sparse b/c of the unrelenting liberal BS and hypocrisy.
Good. They deserve what they get for voting for him.
Hey, I know the solution to this! Raise taxes, spend more, increase government regulations on people and business! Its so simple! Why havent they thought of that before?
My parents from the WWII era were born and raised in NYC.
What a much better place it was back then. Now its overpriced hyped crap full of 3rd world foreigners. Comrade DeBlahzero won his mayor seat by over 70% of the vote. Infested with way too many Rats both the four legged and two legged kind. The Old York was so much better but its long gone.
What amazes me most is that I'm surrounded by forest and wake up to deer on my property every morning - though I'm only 50 minutes from Manhattan - other than the skies being filled with planes headed to and out of JFK and LaGuardia, it's more rustic and scenic here than even New Hampshire.
The demographics of the town I live in and the towns surrounding have more registered Republicans then Democrats and the incomes average over $150k so I guess there is where many of the NYC middle class are coming to live - as well as Westchester and Suffolk counties in NY - which are also booming so far as the middle class goes.
Now I don't find NYC all that bad either. I was reluctant to move and work here because off all the stereotypes about NYC being a ghetto wasteland of crime and violence. Have yet to see violence of any kind and I've been through the rougher sections of the boroughs. The food is amazing and public transportation (in the city itself) can't be beat as it runs 24/7 and all the stations are clean and well lit.
Is it expensive? Yes. Don't even think about moving here unless you are making at least $150k a year. The cost of living is insane.
Me three— I have traveled a lot in my life mainly business and some for vacay. Someday soon I just wanna hang around the house and read, home projects and tend to the lil veggie garden out back. Funny how the years change one’s perspective. Both cities and the process of traveling generally annoy me these days.
Travelers today don’t realize what a joy flying was back before the late 80s, early 90s. They would be highly pi$$ed if they knew the difference.
LOL!
And three grown adults often had trouble raising the $350/month rent, to boot. ;)
Look out NC, SC, TX, TN and GA....northern libscum headed your way!
Tell him to wear a body condom....
Had friends similar to you...moved out of NYC years ago, raised families then moved to S Florida!!! Both neighbors ended up moving away cuz they couldnt stand the NYC libs here in Florida!!! Libtards destroy everything....
A couple of months again I went into NYC with my nephew for my first real trip to the city. Surprisingly, I came out unscathed, and saw nary a drug deal, mugging, or rat. The streets were also remarkably clean, of course, we were in mid to lower Manhattan. All in all, a nice little excursion, and I look forward to returning.
It was the Carter years, after all.
Miami 2017.
a number of studies continue to show that areas dominated by Liberals/Progressives have the highest levels of income “disparity” (and Liberals desire illegal immigrants so much - someone has to mow their lawns, their snotty nosed kids are sure not going to do it)
NYC is FULL of the middle class — but it is mostly an immigrant middle class who overpays (relative to value received) to have the linguistic and commercial amenities of leaving near their people. Once you’re assimilated or intermarried, but aren’t rich enough to live in the upper class neighborhoods, the suburbs are what you do.
The liberalism of the suburbs of New York really needs to have an asterisk on it. Sentimental liberals are certainly more abundant than in Texas or South Carolina — but they run their towns to be very safe, very solvent, very protective of homeowners’ economic interests, with very good schools aimed at a very conventional set of academic outcomes.
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