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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Another Rudi will be needed
I dont love nyc
Libtards vote in libtards and have voted to ruin the place they live
And then lament and wonder why things are the way they are
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
none of you live here.
like 10 year olds you read an article and believe every word :)
I’m here.
We’re good thanks.
But you clowns enjoy
for some weird reasons, people whose necks are red enjoy reading this stuff and Hoping NY falls.
an odd pastime
Look at the video footage of the riots in NYC early this summer; I think an argument could be made that the rioters were disproportionately white.
I would have more sympathy for him if he would not keep supporting the “protestors” that are destroying his city by rioting or if I was not 99% sure he voted for every Democrat on the ballot since he began voting.
Either on purpose or by incompetence the elected officials are making decision that just about guaranteed to kill New York.
Since the same decisions are being made by mostly Democrats around the nation I have to assume that they are doing this with the hope of hurting President Trump in the coming election.
I don’t think it is working out as they planned.
The good news for the rest of us is that as the city loses population they will lose Representatives.
New Yorkers want to save your city, vote for a conservative once in a while.
I remember NYC in the 70’s.
It was pretty bad.
But the current city and state pols make those look like pikers. And, unlike the populace, those pols aren’t going anywhere.
Nobody will risk going through this again.
EXACTLY.
People have NO IDEA how bad it was under John Lindsay.
Give NYC to Bernie Sanders.
Haven't been there in three years - swore I'd never go back in after the last time - everything smells like urine, garbage piled high, and vagrants are ALL OVER.
Pathetic.
Such a kewel photo of Times Square
I’ve been to NYC twice in my life. Once in 1950 as a 4-year old and once in 1988 to bury my great uncle. I remember going to a Yankees game in 1950. The trip in 1988 was an eye-opener.
The people of NYC were wonderful—exactly the opposite of the stereotype. They were friendly, and seemed eager to help obvious out-of-towners. There were restaurants every few feet. The couple of slices of pizza I had were fantastic. My mom had worked in NYC during the war years and she was disappointed at the decline. There was graffiti everywhere and Times Square was not at its best.
The funeral director was an Italian who took us to a little restaurant in Brooklyn where we had a wonderful Italian dinner. He sent us home with the best bread I have ever eaten. He was very ‘old school’ and said that the encroaching bad elements would never be allowed in his neighborhood.
The trip to the cemetery on the Brooklyn/Queens boundary was like going through a war zone. Abandoned cars and building everywhere.
I wouldn’t bet against New York City. But I think it has been wounded—especially with the lockdowns that have destroyed business like restaurants. And the ‘mostly peaceful’ looting and riots haven’t helped. But this too will pass.
If mobile phones and the internet had existed in the 1970s, NYC may never have recovered.
Honeymooned there in 1962. Saw Camelot & Sound of Music. Went to the Latin Quarter. Scrambled eggs were $7.50. Some things are hard to forget.
Just like Detroit.
Working remotely will work for awhile, but people need the interaction. New York will come back when they get a mayor and a governor who know business. When it’s cleaned up, when the cops are honored. It needs a young Rudy Guilani, it needs conservatives to keep the creativity of the liberals in hand.
Forget about months—get the _year_ correct.
Wait ten years until there is a decent mayor and the city turns it around...
Are you high or drunk?
Why in the Hell would you want to live in a city where you'd easily be spending $100 bucks A DAY to move around, get food, and pay various fees and taxes?
I thought about doing the New York thing, even under Bloomingidiot when he at least ran the city competently, and my girlfriend at the time said no thanks.
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