Posted on 12/27/2025 5:54:20 AM PST by dynachrome
Droubay said her family's housing costs doubled, but their New York life is a dream come true.
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I have been pleasantly surprised by how kind 99% of people have been. I will get to the subway, and before I even fold up my stroller, strangers pick up the other end and carry it for me. Everyone stands up and offers seats to my kids, or older women have even grabbed one of my kids' hands and helped them on or off the subway for me.
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Yes, that was the one thing that convinced me this is pure fantasy. I will give up my seat to anyone disabled, to a woman or elderly person; but a perfectly healthy child who can stand on their own two feet - No.
This screed exemplifies the old saying, “A liberal is a conservative who hasn’t gotten mugged yet.”
99% of the people are friendly.
Yea, but it’s that 1% who will kill you.
Probably a drug-induced experience...
“Exactly. I believe NONE of this. NO ONE gives up seats to pregnant women, elderly women and especially someone else’s kids. “
YOU are incorrect.
I do not live in Manhattan but get over there often enough. Yes, you do see strangers helping mom’s with baby carriages navigate subway stairs and on and off of buses. You do see people, men and women, offering pregnant moms and elderly a seat on a bus or subway. You do see many other similar acts of kindness by strangers in Manhattan.
One basic problem with crimes stats is often what is reported are total numbers. That distorts the local impact of crime because it does not match those numbers with the total of the local population in a per capita sense. That is the only sense by which local people, in general, “feel” crime. The higher rate per capita, not the total number, is what reflects how widely felt crime is among the population.
Here is the U.S. Violent Crime Rates Per Capita for the top 20 cities. Notice the city or cities NOT on the list. And notice also how Memphis and New Orleans have higher crime rates than Chicago on a per capita basis, though in this forum it is Chicago that is talked about constantly. New York does not even make the list, but with 7 million people spread out 305 square miles, it should not be surprising to see how NYC does not top the list.
https://getsafeandsound.com/blog/violent-crime-per-capita-by-city/
In another set of murder rates for top 30 cities, only a single portion of NYC, the Bronx, makes the list, coming it at 26th out of 30; and look at all the cities ranked worse than the Bronx.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-top-30-u-s-cities-by-homicide-rate/
Whole numbers for crime data DO show “how much”, but per capita numbers show how widespread, or more or less widespread than you imagined. A visitor to New Orleans or Memphis has a greater chance of being part of or witnessing a major crime than a visitor to Manhattan.
They don’t say where they moved to. If it’s that street they are pictured on, their mortgage only doubling is a wonder in itself. A street like that in Brooklyn will filter out a lot of riff raff.
In Alaska we called this “cabin fever.”
wy69
Many years ago I dated a couple of young women in NYC.
The first one bluntly told me (out of the blue) “almost every attractive young women who lives in NYC has been raped”. She said it had happened to her (by street thugs) two times. She also said very few of the women report it.
Then I asked the second young woman the same question at a later time. She confirmed that the first woman was correct.
This is anecdotal—but it totally blew my mind.
What do you think? True or false.
“...Tick, tick, tick...”
And then waiting for a social worker to come down and give them grief counselling after the damage is done and their stuff is gone. I’m wondering since there is so much less actual protection being done if the insurance rates are going up when the protection is cut and there is probably no chance at all of recovery. Look for the new booming business to be followed up on by entrepreneurs... pawn shops.
wy69
Date rape or stranger rape?
Stranger rape—street thugs.
Liberal wife and mom trying her best to convince herself that NYC is a way better place to live and raise a family. Being white and having a job makes that family second class citizens having to cow tow to people who despise them and pretend they like it. I wonder how long that will last. No doubt she’ll blame Trump for a while and get even angrier as time goes by. Will she ever see the truth? Probably not.
This has got be Babylon Bee. Strangers taking my kids hands?? - they gone
Many in New York City when I was a flight attendant, I have had my pocketbook, flightbag and suitcase on a bus and had to stand the entire time in high heels, hanging onto a pole while every single able bodied man remained seated and refused to make eye contact with me nor offer his seat. You still think I’m incorrect?
equality can be a bitch sometimes ...
You misspelled Mad-mani.
Lololol. A hilarious story indeed.
Here's what's going to happen then -- he's got a side in the office and is going to hit the ejection seat and leave her with the kids.
She'll go back to Utah groveling and never once examine her own role in this nitwittery.
Can't exactly make it either. Staten doesn't have that particular kind of brownstone row, so they are in the Heights or probably Red Hook. Enjoy the raw wind straight off the bay 6 months of the year!
15 minute cities. Then the pods and bug sandwiches.
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