Posted on 03/29/2020 7:39:58 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Interesting Watch...
When I visited there on vacation last year, I looked into their job classifications. It seems like many of the jobs in NYC are now done by people sitting at computers. Which means they can be done in a lot of places not NYC.
My son in law works from home for a company in downown seattle.
He lives in a rural area outside of Louisville, KY.
I can understand the appeal of the big city to some (not me).
But I wonder about the high costs of doing business in NYC.
Everything is very expensive.
This is well-worth the 9 minutes or so it takes to watch, particularly for anyone in the NYC tri-state area who is considering a move in the near future.
Why would you want those people moving out of their cesspool. All they are going to do is change the political landscape of rural areas which isn’t going to work out well for conservatives.
The number of tourists from around the world that the city attracts every year plays no small part in its prominence.
good watch. Thanks for introducing me to BCL.
He’s right about the change in attitude but the reality of such a shift of population trends will take more then this. In other words people may want to spread out from NY but can’t. It’s not that easy. Many have but way more are unable to for a variety of reasons. I’d rather keep the Dems right where they are, they cause enough trouble as it is.
“Why would you want those people moving out of their cesspool. “
The democrat diaspora from filthy northeast big cities is already infecting the rest of the country. Unless/until they can he screened out from normal decent people it’s a bad deal.
It depends why people live in New York. Are they tied to the media, entertainment industries such as the opera, the theater, or ballet? Some other specifc jobs such as on Wall Street which compels them to live there for those unique jibs which aren’t found elsewhere?
And numerous people there may have grown up there , have family and friends, and can’t imagine moving away.
Exactly. So the inclination to leave may be there but the reality is most won’t.
Unlike the frog in the pot of boiling water, most people do know when to pick up and leave an area. (See: "white flight".)
If this is someone's first negative experience with NYC, it's true that they may not be inclined to go. But if it's their third or fourth, the decision to pick up and leave has already taken root in the back of their heads.
Mercy killing?
Between 1980 and 2010 (the most recent census before this year's), the state of New York lost TWENTY seats in the House of Representatives, due to the departure of residents from that state to southern states. New Jersey is currently the state with the largest outflow of its citizens to another state.
People aren't leaving all at once. Nobody's pulling their kids out of school mid-year, suddenly quitting a well-paying job, or selling their house at a loss simply to flee NYC and its environs. But it's safe to say that a lot of people in the NYC area are most certainly leaving it.
NYC has been done for quite some time.
The original Dutch harbor, expanded greatly in influence by the Erie Canal linking the Great Lakes and America’s Heartland to the port by the Hudson River.
Wall Street blossomed, NY City used to make EVERYTHING, Post WWII United Nations helped build the modern International Metropolis that attracts the Urban Professionals.
That’s all over now.
Comparatively, NYC makes almost nothing now. Wall street shipped its back offices to New Jersey. Empty Downtown Office Canyons converted to overpriced residential crypts. Over taxed, gripped at the throught by criminal Private & Public sector unions, crumbling infrastructure and public schools, families on welfare for three generations, and now overrun with third world sponges.
Glorious while it lasted, but its toast.
True. But there’s only one New York City. It’s why MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL all have their headquarters in NYC.
I didn’t intend to watch the whole video, but I did. The guy provides some interesting observations and perspective. Stuff the MSM should provide, but doesn’t.
As of now we have: 1 SIL, 1 niece, 3 nephews, 2 grand kids, 1 grand niece and 1 grand nephew and several friends staying in their homes working or going to school or attending college across the nation.
We have siblings watching, monitoring and helping the kids on the internet.
This is happening from Africa, to PR and of course in our 57 states.
One descendant had his office equipment duplicated in his home and some in his big pickup. His secretary for over 30 years will be going out in the work areas and doing her job as it happens.
A good friend is chomping at the bit and licking his lips.
He created an outstanding MBA program on line, and he feels that can be replicated from k-12 and most college degrees.
One SIL and a good friend of my wife are now working from their homes in offices equipped by their bosses.
One female rel. is running her morning adult dance classes on line and is creating an online site for a small clothing store. The store is closed to the public and is serving as a warehouse and an order receiving and shipping point.
My wife and 19 other members of our church are contacting 2-3 dozen members weekly to see how they are doing and if they need anything. They enter the data into an online Google spread sheet set up by a retired IT in our church. If there is a request for help, that request is sent to people to help as the callers enter the needs.
Many if not most churches are using the internet for videoed services and messages from the church to its members.
This has happened in a few weeks. One can only imagine what will be happening work wise in our homes before this issue is resolved.
When I have to go to the office, the puny equipment set is like having to sit at the kid's table at a party. So I'm discouraged from going in.
When the big COVID-19 crisis hit, I had already had in place, for a decade, everything I needed to continue to work for $DAYJOB from home. And $DAYJOB’s customers are all remote users of $DAYJOB’s products, so the revenue stream has increased, not decreased. $DAYJOB has customers world-wide, more so now that WFH has become universal.
Yes, the stock market sag has hurt my retirement possibilities, but that's fine. I wasn't planning to retire soon anyway — what would I do all day? I'm having too much fun, which is why I love my job. I'm content to let everything sit while the market recovers. As long as $DAYJOB lets me work, I continue doing what I do.
In the meantime, I'll be a hermit in this suburban town.
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