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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May/June and Sept/Oct
I moved to NYC in the late 60’s and lasted 4 DAYS!
Currently the cost to rent a 26 foot U Haul truck for a week to transport 3/4 bedroom house furniture from NYC to Florida is $3128 while the cost for the same truck rental to transport from Florida to NYC is $768.The law of supply and demands tells the story quite succinctly. Simply put, most folks prefer to sip their iced covid cocktail beachside watching dolphins rather than curbside, unemployed and watching riots.
If you are not old yet, stick to the similar 40th latitude locations. If you are old go to Florida. it’s hot, you won’t be cold, that’s why they do it.
Please God they don’t move west of the Appalachians. Unless they go straight to Kalifornia. We don’t want their voting patterns.
New York will come back when:
Law and order mayor
Slashes taxes
Slashes regulations and bureaucracy
It becomes cheap enough
Business is a face to face relationship game.
The businesses that want to thrive must do this.
But in the back of everyone’s mind will be ...When are the blacks going to be pissed off next time and how much business will I lose or will I have a job ????
lol NYC is absolutely going to come back
“I don’t think I have an answer but I do think it’s clear: it’s time to move out of NYC.”
I’d like to know who that guy voted for. That just might provide an answer.
Its is different this time. With so many working from home, there is no need to move to shithole cities like New York.
Broadway and many other of the niceties are gone now and most likely will never return as they were. Too many businesses are destroyed permanently and there are more opportunities elsewhere.
Watching the government actively destroying your life and encouraging more from the mobs is not going to make people want to stay.
I can’t believe that graphic showed ppl moving from NYC to SF.
Talk about gluttons for punishment.
When did he move there; 1920?
Last I read, a couple years ago, it took a minimum of 2 years to open a restaurant in NYC and $500,000 just to get through the permitting process.
Yes you can open any business you like if you are a multi-millionaire.
Then, yesterday I read that the rent for the GAP was over $120K a month. Yep, I am going to move to NYC and open a clothing store.
The new technology is undercutting the economic rational for urban centers. First demand for retail space began to decline as people used their computers to order directly and more cheaplly from warehouse type vendors such as Amazon. Now innnumerable companies are learning that a majority of their employees can work efficently and profitbly from home on their computers and there is no need to congregate in huge , expensive central locations. Those big office buildings are declining in value and the resteraunts and botiques that servied them now have little or no business.The port of New York is antiquated and inefficent.Mass transportation cannot run at low capacity without huge subsidies. NYC still has unique cultural institutions but even in the best of times few were self supporting and now even larger subsidies are needed for fewer patrons. The bad socialist government has its consequences. Bureaucracies are bloated and inefficent. Government public schools are horrible. People are not confident about law and order which is an essential condition for urban living. Many who can are leaving. Share the author’s love and nostalgia for New York as it once was but it has changed and not for the better.
Yes, but as writer of an article posted here on FR pointed out, there really is no need to go to any city anymore. Stock markets, trade, goods, and all commerce all now does not require going to a city.
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
Billy Joel - Miami 2017
The summer humidity is gone, the weather is pleasant, and the cold weather hasn't arrived yet.
Anyone who visits during the summer or winter months certainly isn't doing it for the weather.
I answered! Greetings to you!!!
Sounds like never from your list.
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