Posted on 08/18/2020 4:45:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
One more thing...sideways brain thinking again...my daughter came up to me at poolside and said, “dad you gotta hear this song”...I reminded that to her the other night when she was over with her family because the grandkids love the song...(4 cranes walking outside window as I type making their prehistoric call). Circling back...friend Aaron made the video (Nick’s best man)...I taught in school (sub only)...and worked with Aaron at big box store...great, multi-talented man. Julie was one of my daughter’s great friends. What a vacation (I recommend it...you’ve worked hard...YOU deserve it). What a great life. Enjoy it. It goes by fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO5d6ROAUm4
(yeah wifey and I are in there somewhere)
To the blog pimps, “no, this is not my blog.”
To the paragraph police, “here’s one you’ll like.”
It sums up what I was telling people in April regarding what happens nationwide if the lockdown goes beyond April.
I work in downtown Louisville, except we now all work from home. We had our monthly team meeting and everybody’s doing great, work wise. There is no need to go back except for the human element, which IS taking its toll.
And my son-in-law has a business in Seattle. He has almost 40 employees. They are now working from home and doing at least as well as before. He is not only not opening the office back up (save a ton on rent), but he’s also not hiring any more Seattle workers. They are a tier 1 market. They are expensive. A $100,000 a year Seattle developer (his people are all IT) is no better than a $60,000 Kentucky, Tennessee or South Dakota developer. He’s looking elsewhere for new people now. He won’t fire any of the Seattle folks, but they will go away through attrition.
This will change the country like the depression and WWII did. Actually, the world.
I visited Detroit about 17 years ago and called it the country’s first “ex-city”. It has been on the mend lately, but it looks like I was being prophetic and didn’t even know it. And I doubt it’s on the mend now.
I don’t think so. That was the old model. People in the red states have had it.
It’s a different article. This is not a duplicate.
Yep. See my post 22 about my son-in-law and his company.
Same here. I suppose if you just gotta have that starbucks coffee every morning, or clubbing is your life, that’s one thing. For me, I’ve had the attitude for a long time that cities steal your soul. I moved from Seattle (home for 46 years) to a small hobby farm in rural KY 9 years ago and it still feels like paradise.
I’m looking out my second story window right now at a nine acre yard, with a peekaboo view of the valley below. Of course, it would not be possible without the miracle of a 60” zero-turn mower. :)
Nice wedding video...much fun and great music!
The Democratic Administration is doing a wonderful job for New Yorkers.......
I’m not sure how we fight it.
As FReeper Bonemaker so eloquently stated about the NYC exodus: “New Yorkers are disgusted with Cuomo and DiBlasio and desperately want different democrats to vote for.”
The writer put us through a lot of verbiage before giving the underlying reason: bandwidth.
For those that quit reading before getting to “bandwidth”, he means working remotely has become widely feasible because of our very speedy internet. No need for commuting, high cost of living, bad things associated with large cities. So people will move to smaller towns.
But the counter-argument is that people come to New York because of the excitement, etc., that exists because it is a melting pot and cultural center.
New York would benefit by a reduction in population and cost of living, but that’s all that will happen in my opinion.
LOL! Thanks, RR. It’s good to laugh.
A Free Republic is a Fun Republic. (circling back...a dystopian republic is not fun)
Long ago I read a SciFi book that had the idea people figured out how to teleport. They could “beam me up Scotty” to anywhere from anywhere. It changed city life to where there were only a few of them left. Far fewer people lived in cities, attracted by the art & culture scene.
Well, we can’t teleport but we have the internet.
- Employers THEN realize that they don’t need to pay higher wages to attract employees, because they aren’t asking the employees to live in areas with higher costs of living
Bingo
Debt destruction followed by Asset destruction
Museum Quality PORTL (video)
Ultimately, those reduced costs get passed on to the consumer...which makes it imperative that companies reduce costs (i.e., move employees out of NYC) to keep up with the competition.
Sure, this will pass, but it will take a while. Years, I think. Why?
Because there won’t be any reason for the rest of the world to go visit NYC. Museums are closed, there are no live shows to go to. Stores have been looted and destroyed. Plus, I may have to quarantine for 2 weeks upon arrival.
I think it will be a very minimum of 3 years for NYC to start resembling a shell of its former self, but likely, I think it will be twice that.
Give it back to the Indians.
I’ve traveled extensively for business and pleasure. I’ve been to NYC several times over the last few years. Had family that lived there for a while. Got to see the famous streets, parks, landmarks, etc. I never could figure out why song writers and people like the OP get so maudlin over a crowded, smelly, dirty, decaying concrete jungle like that place. I guess if you were born there, that’s all you knew growing up. I guess I’m blessed that I knew open air and sunshine. I could never live there.
“Somewhere out there on that horizon
Out beyond the neon lights
I know there must be somethin’ better
But there’s nowhere else in sight
It’s survival in the city
When you live from day to day
City streets don’t have much pity
When you’re down, that’s where you’ll stay
In the city, oh, oh.
In the city
I was born here in the city
With my back against the wall
Nothing grows, and life ain’t very pretty
No one’s there to catch you when you fall
Somewhere out on that horizon
Faraway from the neon sky
I know there must be somethin’ better
And I can’t stay another night”
They will move to better, safer cities, and then they will vote for the same turds that ruined the city they left.
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