Posted on 08/13/2020 4:03:20 PM PDT by GaltMeister
I love NYC. When I first moved to NYC it was a dream come true. Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me. So much personality, so many stories.
Every subculture I loved was in NYC. I could play chess all day and night. I could go to comedy clubs. I could start any type of business. I could meet people. I had family, friends, opportunities. No matter what happened to me, NYC was a net I could fall back on and bounce back up.
Now it's completely dead. "But NYC always always bounces back." No. Not this time. "But NYC is the center of the financial universe. Opportunities will flourish here again." Not this time.
"NYC has experienced worse". No it hasn't.
A Facebook group formed a few weeks ago that was for people who were planning a move and wanted others to talk to and ask advice from. Within two or three days it had about 10,000 members.
Every day I see more and more posts, "I've been in NYC forever but I guess this time I have to say goodbye." Every single day I see those posts. I've been screenshotting them for my scrapbook.
Three of the most important reasons to move to NYC:
- business opportunities
- culture
- food
and, of course, friends. But if everything I say below is even 1/10 of what I think then there won't be as many opportunities to make friends. =
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All good Brudda!
California gets it’s
Slams all the time,,,
Fa get about it!
If they ever invent time travel, I want to go back and live in New York in 1946. I’m of the opinion that it was all down hill for New York from there on.
They will move away and vote for the same a$$holes that caused them to have to move in the first place.
“A very good article from a New Yorker on the damage that has been done to NYC and why recovery is very unlikely”
Yep, he NAILS IT when he says that Bandwidth is the end of NYC. It is the end of every city, other than maybe DC. Cities had their place in human history, going back thousands of years, but, at this point, they simply serve no purpose in a world where people are connected and commerce can move cheaply over long distances. The virus only (greatly) accelerated their decline, but our cities were able to hang on, until they elected their current crop of leaders - now it’s game over for them.
Thank you for saying a few good words about city with a lot of history and charm if you look in the right places.
I toured the biggest data center in NYC a few years back. It’s on Hudson Street, near the Brooklyn Bridge. The building is the old Western Union building built when only telegraph existed. Girls wearing rollerskates used to skate from one side of the building to the other to deliver paper messages to be telegraphed.
Fascinating buildings everywhere. It will certainly come back once real leadership returns. I wouldn’t care to live there, but it’s a fascinating place to visit.
It will not come back because the country is going Marxist/Communist.
What is happening isn’t just a phase unless the people want to rise up and put a stop to it.
So far, the bad guys continue the destruction of the economy and the personal wealth and freedoms of Americans.
Thinking otherwise is daydreaming.
I used to spend a lot of time in and around the Loop in downtown Chicago. Had a dozen years where a third of my time I lived and worked there during the week and commuted home on the weekend.
The blacks and other minorities I was around in business, at my condo I rented, at hotels and just on the street were very fine people. I base that assessment on spending time in dozens of large and small communities all over the nation.
Now, I was in the Southside a time or two late at night and I know there are places that are not like downtown, but I wouldn't begin to think that AntiFa and BLM are about Racial issues. This is the Armed Left -- the Communists.
The 30s in NY were wonderful too. I was a new Yorker buff and read a lot about the 30s and the culture and theater of the times
So do you have any teeth left? Or has the meth gotten to them all.
Several cities are becoming the next Detroit.
“The U.S. version of urban blight, if you rely on ample empirical evidence, is largely a non-reversible process. Once money moves out, it ain’t coming back. They may try to ‘renew’ an area, but it’s usually lipstick on a pig, like upscale condos in a high crime area.”
Ayn Rand wrote a book or three about that very point.
That is especially the case for cities that were built along waterways when they were the “highways”; trains and tractor trailers have made those locations meaningless with the exception of major ports - and unfortunately for NYC, Port Newark/Elizabeth to the southwest is better positioned to take in goods for shipment to the northeastern section of the country.
They won’t remember and they will vote to destroy the new host, it’s already happened to my beloved commonwealth of Virginia.
From whom will they rebound with since most parts of the State are enamored by Marxism and secular humanism?
Sure you want to use that analogy? Toilets are useful.
It’s about free stuff and an opportunity for causing chaos, nothing more. Those fine people you speak of live primarily on a voting plantation (Well over 80%) that gives authority to these “people” to do their will.
There should be no excuses for those who vote for any democrat, for they are misguided and intellectually reckless.
Leftists kill. End of story.
We moved to Pennsylvania in 1963, because of Mayor Lindsay.
We love it here.
Never regretted the move.
Fuck the CCP, deep state DEMs & NIH that sen billions of $ in aid there during nobama years by Fauci to create the WMD CV that has been used to declare war upon us! Why in the hell we aren’t fighting back beats the hell out of me!
Did that DC couple times in late 90’s when working for Comcast...
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