Posted on 08/18/2020 6:07:30 PM PDT by amorphous
Everyone has a love/hate relationship with New York City. It has some of the worst qualities, but it's unlike ANY city elsewhere in the world. But now, the city that never sleeps may be gone forever. In a recent LinkedIn op-ed, New Yorker James Altucher wrote why he believes "New York City is Dead Forever." And Glenn agrees: not only is the city completely boarded up due to ongoing violence, but New Yorkers are leaving in a mass exodus. And they're not coming back. This time, New York may not be "bouncing back" like it's done so many times before.
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Watch Madison county AL as a canary in the coal mine.
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Actually the entire South has been adversely affected by modern-day carpetbaggers, especially those fleeing the cesspools they created in the Northeast States. Despicable people that should be shunned in every way possible.
In addition to no tourism, most office buildings in Midtown are still closed. People don’t want to commute in on crowded trains when they can work from home. There is no indoor dining and when gyms finally open, the restrictions are so crazy why bother. I live in Manhattan and all I see are moving trucks all day long.
I LOVE New York....
If you have never been .....GO. JUST FOR THE HISTORY.
I have spent my life working as an Institutional Stock trader.... I have spent much time there. But I also love e American history. NYC is jammed with hisrtory...espec rally WAL;L STREET.
First time I went, I got there early ....I walked to Trinity Church but it was locked. I turned around and leaned on the large staircase. I looked down....and there was Alexander Hamilton’s grave. the whole yard was Revolutionary heroes!!!!
Go to NYC sometime ...just for the incredible history.
I didn’t get Uptown! ;-)
Nope. They vote in the new place and absentee vote in New York City. Its a plot go expand the blue to surrounding states.
Thanks for the plug, but NYC is pretty far down my bucket list. I don’t like large cities. Too many people. I prefer open spaces or deep forests and woodlands with few people around. I spent most of my childhood, alone at home in the swamps and forests of the Deep South - people said I was wild and I was to some degree. I ran away and missed 72 days of the first grade, but still won 2nd place in the 1st thru 12th grade science fair. I dearly love science and history tho. To visit the natural museums in NYC is tempting.
Lol...that’s from the movie, “Escape from New York (1981)”.
Brooklyn was originally a separate city.
It used to be people moved to the city because that’s where the jobs were. Covid-19 has shown that people can work remotely and be even more productive than in an office environment. That’s win-win for companies who can vacate their exorbitantly expensive NYC office space and have more productive employees working from their home anywhere in the country. In turn, all those businesses in the various service industries will shut down for lack of customers and it becomes a vicious circle. I can definitely see major urban area populations contracting as more and more people flee as more and more businesses close and crime gets worse.
Visiting NY is on my bucket list right after:
I rub Alpo on my body and go make friends with the pitbulls next door that always bark mean at me!
Eat those weird looking mushrooms that grow on that purple moss in the dead tree stump near the toxic waste site.
Ask that caged chimp that looks crazy to shake my hand for a peanut.
And after Joe Biden passes his senality test, first flight out!
“I don’t know, but let’s just hope these NY leftists don’t move into red states and start turning them blue.”
The problem is that these people are like a plague of locusts - they destroy one area and then, still hungry, move to another area. Having learned exactly NOTHING, they ruin that area...and if there’s enough time left in their life, they go to a 3rd area and destroy that one.
Sometimes I wish that we had interstate limits on immigration.
FWIW, I left NJ almost 20 years ago* and settled in TX - and I’m loving it. Going from the gun-wasteland that is NJ, to TX where there are plentiful gun shops and ranges, and 1.4 million carry licenses, it is like going from Hell to Heaven.
*Interesting story connected with that move. From roughly ‘93 - ‘98, I regularly went with a friend (or several) to gun shows in PA (and even one in NYS), where I bought 20- and 30-round magazines that were illegal in NJ. Once I even had a bunch delivered by mail to me at work in NYC (of all places) where they hadn’t yet caught up with NJ’s draconian laws.
Fast forward to the move - I packed all of my guns, ammo, mags and other accessories in the car, buried under suitcases and blankets. As my (then relatively new) wife and I passed the “Welcome to Delaware” sign on the Delaware Memorial Bridge, I casually turned to her and said, “Well, now you don’t have to worry anymore about having to bail me out of jail.” She responded with pie-eyes and an open mouth, and sputtered a request for me to explain. So I told her all about NJ’s magazine ban. She asked me how many I had. “Well, about 18 inches behind my ass is roughly 200 years’ worth in Rahway State Prison.” She turned pale and said nothing at all for 30 seconds (and let’s just say that this is EXTREMELY unlike my wife). She then asked, “They don’t have laws in Texas like that, do they?” “No, babe, Texas is in America.”
I still enjoy thinking about that conversation - not just because I really got her good, but because it was the perfect teachable moment for her (and she was never anti-gun, quite the opposite, but rather uninformed).
Could it be that people fleeing large cities, like NYC, is part of God’s plan? As your tagline suggests, it may for reasons we aren’t aware of just now. Maybe God is working behind the scenes to prepare us for something that’s coming in our near future?
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Incredible. I can’t believe Comrade de Blasio and his Marxist wife haven’t been tossed out of Gracie Mansion yet either.
I have two friends who walked off Manhattan and another leaving when lease is up in October.
I can see the city from streaming cams and I can’t recall ever seeing so few people at Times Square.
Not on any day, at any time....
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Are you kidding? That’s exactly what they will do, just as they have been doing for generations! Historically, that has been the primary catalyst for transforming the political culture for decades!
Yes, that is exactly what happened to California in the 1970s. Once home to Gov. Ronald Reagan.
“run by five Italian families, perhaps?”
Or just one Italian, named Giuliani.
Actually that’s 750,000 flips while CA is 1.5 m flips from turning. So NY is closer than CA.
NOW IF 1m libs already fked?? You’re looking at 359,000 flips.
Highly unlikely.. but not impossible.
“I wonder what percentage of those leaving have been diehard Democrat voters(?)”
I was talking to a Portland diehard democrat and mentioned that Portland was getting what they had voted for. Their reply was “not me”.
And yes they are planning to leave because of the deterioration of the city.
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