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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I wanted to move there for a year. What are the best months weather-wise? I think it’s May and November. Talk to me.
It will eventually bounce back
“I wanted to move there for a year. What are the best months weather-wise? I think it’s May and November. Talk to me.”
I don’t live there, just posted this article Altucher wrote.
Try to contact him on twitter, linkedin, etc or someone like him they can give you the local scoop for sure.
Until the blacks get pissed off again...
When NYC has swirled down and is gone, someone please close the toilet seat.
My son is 55 and has been there for 30 years. He’s very saddened by all this. His first love are the museums.
Yeah.
These types of stories just make the writer sound like an idiot.
NYC in the 70s was far worse.
Agree totally. The giant irresistable sucking sound has started and the whirlpool of NYC’s inevitable self-destruction has begun.
Sadly, millions will be financially destroyed in this disaster, where financial collapse will spread like a fast-growing cancer. One person’s financial collapse will bring about the financial collapse of another 2 or 3. Residents will flea in fear, only making the collapse more rapid, more inevitable.
Same will happen with Chicago, and possibly Portland, Seattle, maybe even San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi will be the last to leave and will turn out the lights - she doesn’t need SF, but SF needs her.
Whether it’s dead or not, it’s voters want this.
Best month is September. We have very hot summers, hardly no spring and cold winters from Nov-March.
I’m sure a lot are saying they’re leaving and not going back. But how many have the means to leave? I hope the megacities perish and lose their political power. But I doubt it’ll happen.
I’ll never forget the first words spoken to me by a native New Yorker (my cabbie):
“So what brings you to this cesspool?”
I wonder if he still loves his hometown.
When you move out please remember the voting habits that destroyed your home in the first place, and don’t repeat.
If I lived in NYC I would have moved out years ago ... but if I could live in the NYC area one month of the year it would be October.
NYC in the early 70s was much worse. It will come back.
When, is the question.
After a forest fire it looks like there will be no more forest. But whole new ecologies develop in succession until you have a full forest again.
And NYC isn’t completely burned down. Sometimes people feel more indispensible than they are.
It will eventually bounce back
Agree. It’s one of the great magnet cities in the world for young people. That will never change.
There is a NYC resident Freeper - name MissDidi
“Three of the most important reasons to move to NYC:
- business opportunities
- culture
- food...”
Three (actually 4) of the most important reasons NOT to move to New York:
1. Gun laws
2. Congestion/crowded (I can’t breathe)
3. Most obnoxious democrat people in the world
4. It’s New York
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