Posted on 08/31/2020 9:06:58 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
In modern American history, we have never seen such a sudden mass exodus away from our major cities. Overall, the U.S. economy is a complete and total disaster in 2020, but moving companies and real estate agents that work in desirable rural and suburban areas are absolutely thriving right now. Each weekend we are seeing long lines at U-Haul rental facilities, moving companies can’t handle all of the requests that they are getting, and property values are shifting at a pace that is difficult to believe. Homes in our core urban areas are losing value very rapidly, and at the same time we are seeing bidding wars for some rural and suburban properties that are absolutely insane.
I certainly can’t blame anyone that wants to escape the violence. If I was living in a major city that was being torn apart by violence, I would want to move too.
At one time we had some of the most beautiful cities in the entire world, but now the word “apocalyptic” is being used to describe them. The following comes from an article by Victor Davis Hanson…
Nine months ago, New York was a thriving, though poorly governed, metropolis. It was coasting on the more or less good governance of its prior two mayors and on its ancestral role as the global nexus of finance and capital.
The city is now something out of a postmodern apocalyptic movie, reeling from the effects of a neutron bomb. Ditto in varying degrees Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco — the anti-broken-windows metropolises of America. Walking in San Francisco today reminds me of visiting Old Cairo in 1973, although the latter lacked the needles and feces of the former.
Chicago is one of the cities that has been the most affected by the violence, and the Chicago Tribune recently posted an article about the mass exodus that the city is now experiencing…
Incidents of widespread looting and soaring homicide figures in Chicago have made national news during an already tumultuous year. As a result, some say residents in affluent neighborhoods downtown, and on the North Side, no longer feel safe in the city’s epicenter and are looking to move away. Aldermen say they see their constituents leaving the city, and it’s a concern echoed by some real estate agents and the head of a sizable property management firm.
Following the horrific looting in Chicago a couple weeks ago, a Tribune reporter visited some of the wealthier parts of the city, and that reporter encountered residents that indicated that they would be leaving “as soon as we can get out”…
The day after looting broke out two weeks ago, a Tribune columnist strolled through Gold Coast and Streeterville. Residents of the swanky Near North Side told him they’d be moving “as soon as we can get out.” Others expressed fear of returning downtown in the future.
Of course Chicago is far from alone. In a previous article, I discussed the fact that the New York Times has reported that hundreds of thousands of people have already left New York City. After losing so many residents, you would think that the mass exodus would be slowing down, but that does not appear to be happening. In fact, we are being told that “moving trucks were out in force” on the Upper West Side on Saturday…
Moving trucks were out in force on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday — leaving Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa practically tripping over them.
“The mass evacuation of Upper West Siders from NYC is in full effect,” Sliwa, who lives on W. 87th Street, lamented, blaming the city’s decision this summer to house hundreds of emotionally disturbed homeless and recovering addicts in neighborhood hotels.
And someone filmed a stunningly long line at a U-Haul rental location in New York on Saturday. In all my years, I don’t think that I have ever seen anything like that at a U-Haul facility.
Of course all of those people need to have somewhere to go, and this is creating massive bidding wars for properties in the suburbs…
Over three days in late July, a three-bedroom house in East Orange, N.J., was listed for sale for $285,000, had 97 showings, received 24 offers and went under contract for 21 percent over that price.
On Long Island, six people made offers on a $499,000 house in Valley Stream without seeing it in person after it was shown on a Facebook Live video. In the Hudson Valley, a nearly three-acre property with a pool listed for $985,000 received four all-cash bids within a day of having 14 showings.
Isn’t that crazy?
But this is what happens when vast hordes of wealthy people are trying to relocate all at once.
On the west coast we are seeing similar things happen. Property values in rural and suburban communities are being driven up, and meanwhile prices in core urban areas are falling very quickly. For example, just check out what is taking place in San Francisco…
San Francisco has seen a greater increase in price drops than any other U.S. metro, with the share of sellers slashing prices more than doubling from a year ago as the COVID-19 related panic drives homebuyers out of the Bay Area, reports Redfin.
A quarter (24.5%) of San Francisco-area home sellers cut their list prices during the four weeks ending Aug. 16, the highest share since at least 2015, when Redfin began recording this data. That’s more than double the rate from a year earlier, marking the largest annual increase in the share of active listings with price drops among the 50 most populous U.S. metro areas.
Some Californians are choosing to relocate within the state, but of course many others are fleeing the state entirely.
One of the places many of them are heading to is Arizona, and one recent Yahoo News article commented on the “surge in California license plates” in the state…
Driving across Arizona, it’s hard not to notice a surge in California license plates. The reason for this is becoming more apparent every day. California is a failed state.
If you currently live in an urban area and you are still thinking about relocating, I would make a decision rapidly. Summer is almost over, economic conditions are going to continue to deteriorate, and much more civil unrest is coming.
In an interview that I just did with Greg Hunter, I explained why I am so concerned about the times that we are moving into.
And countless other Americans also seem to be deeply alarmed about the near future, because we have never seen a mass exodus of this magnitude in modern American history.
The times, they are a-changin’, and life in our country will never be quite the same again.
Liberal refugees, don’t vote for what you fled.
Fleeing to go to suburbs and vote Democrat and make them unsafe as well. A-holes.
The Rats doing what Charlie Manson couldn’t do. Start a race war.
Yeah. Stoopid people.
Americans in every big city in the USA are leaving behind those “BATMAN, JOKER, GOTHAM CITIES” by the thousands. Thanks to failed, twisted, nutcase, Democrat Party retards like New York, Governor, Andrew Cuomo & Democrat, NYC Mayor, Bill DeBlasio and many other Democrat Party, retards, hate America, Governors & Mayors throughout the USA. the developing outcome result will outcome, two fold, one the cities are dying and two, civil war is about to begin marching on a large scale.
I will skip the dialogue on this matter, other then to suggest, every single American voter should 100% cast their votes for the re-election, POTUS Donald J. Trump!!! Failure to do so, will bring down the country into a civil war, which for, people that call themselves Democrats & American Haters will not fare well!!! Democrats & Rioters, be careful what you wish for, You many suffer from a gift you will not be happy with!!! End of story....Case Closed!!!
So glad I inherited a house in Tyler Tx from my mom and my two siblings gave their blessing. We are in year 4 of remodel and starting to rip out floor in kitchen area to re-level. Not many people move to Tyler but it has a little city life with a quick drive into the East Texas woods with loads of retirees settling there.
We noticed that there was about 25 acres split into 3 sections with a big sign for sale. This was right next to my husband’s 118 acres. He was in the middle of trying to buy a sliver off the back to gain easier access to his acreage. About two weeks later all 3 sections were SOLD...People from Dallas/Houston buying up land in E. TX. This is near Henderson TX/Mt. Enterprise.
brownsfan wrote: “Fleeing to go to suburbs and vote Democrat and make them unsafe as well. A-holes.”
Nothing has changed. When I was in Utah in the 90s, people there complained about the influx of people from California bringing their liberal ideals about how to run a state, ideals that had caused them to leave California.
I think now the worst of the Left is staying - they have “won”, after all, and hope to take advantage of long-awaited lower prices in their Utopias.
My kids were in Camp Pirtle out there this summer. It was I think the only Scout camp in the eastern/central part of Texas that was open at all.
Haven’t heard of it..my son is in the scouts and has been to quite a few camps over the years...now we have to camp out at the DPS office to try to get his Learner’s Permit. I’ll be doing lots of thread work at the DPS....
“Nothing has changed. When I was in Utah in the 90s, people there complained about the influx of people from California bringing their liberal ideals about how to run a state, ideals that had caused them to leave California.”
I hate them.
Last week my niece and her husband sold their suburban house in one day, $22k more than they asked. 12 showings first day, 8 bids. Town of 5000 people.
Buyers are fleeing their inner city home just outside of Baltimore as crime is creeping in their once safe neighborhood.
My mothers Sarasota home sold before even being formally listed. For cash. For asking price. Closing is this Friday.
Oh and it was over half a million dollars.
It’s still disturbing to want to live in a house where people defecated in places other than the toilet,
Get the productive people out of the cities.
That leaves only liberals and college profs/students there.
Wall off the cities.
Wait.
Then we can bring the cities back to the 20th century.
We wish. Oregon was turned leftist by Californians fleeing the results of their votes. I once went to a dinner party. As an ice breaker, they had people say where they were from. Out of 23 people, only my wife and I were native Oregonians.
I remember a joke about a Texan, a Nevadan and an Oregonian ... at the end, the Oregonian shoots the Californian instead of the glass bottles they’re destroying. “That glass bottle is worth ten cents recycled, but we’ve got too many Californians and we can’t recycle them.”
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