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NYC IS DEAD FOREVER. HERE'S WHY
Linkedin ^ | August 13, 2020 | James Altucher

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. =

(Excerpt) Read more at linkedin.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: dsj03; jamesaltucher; jerryseinfeld; newyork; newyorkcity; ny
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A very good article from a New Yorker on the damage that has been done to NYC and why recovery is very unlikely
1 posted on 08/13/2020 4:03:20 PM PDT by GaltMeister
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To: GaltMeister

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.


2 posted on 08/13/2020 4:05:12 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: GaltMeister

It will eventually bounce back


3 posted on 08/13/2020 4:06:25 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“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.


4 posted on 08/13/2020 4:07:04 PM PDT by GaltMeister (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Until the blacks get pissed off again...


5 posted on 08/13/2020 4:07:47 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: GaltMeister

When NYC has swirled down and is gone, someone please close the toilet seat.


6 posted on 08/13/2020 4:08:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

My son is 55 and has been there for 30 years. He’s very saddened by all this. His first love are the museums.


7 posted on 08/13/2020 4:08:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Yeah.

These types of stories just make the writer sound like an idiot.

NYC in the 70s was far worse.


8 posted on 08/13/2020 4:09:44 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: GaltMeister

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.


9 posted on 08/13/2020 4:09:48 PM PDT by Arlis
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To: GaltMeister

Whether it’s dead or not, it’s voters want this.


10 posted on 08/13/2020 4:10:30 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Best month is September. We have very hot summers, hardly no spring and cold winters from Nov-March.


11 posted on 08/13/2020 4:12:26 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: GaltMeister

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.


12 posted on 08/13/2020 4:12:59 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: VanDeKoik
The one and only time I was in New York City was 1984.

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.

13 posted on 08/13/2020 4:14:17 PM PDT by daler
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To: GaltMeister

When you move out please remember the voting habits that destroyed your home in the first place, and don’t repeat.


14 posted on 08/13/2020 4:14:44 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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.


15 posted on 08/13/2020 4:14:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: VanDeKoik

NYC in the early 70s was much worse. It will come back.

When, is the question.


16 posted on 08/13/2020 4:15:10 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: GaltMeister

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.


17 posted on 08/13/2020 4:15:32 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Pikachu_Dad

It will eventually bounce back


Agree. It’s one of the great magnet cities in the world for young people. That will never change.


18 posted on 08/13/2020 4:17:39 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: DIRTYSECRET

There is a NYC resident Freeper - name MissDidi


19 posted on 08/13/2020 4:18:14 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: GaltMeister

“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


20 posted on 08/13/2020 4:19:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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