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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‘Tis nothing but a flesh wound, eh?
Better our necks are red. At least we have wide-open spaces, have access to groceries, and the freedom to do what we want, instead of being stuck in traffic jams or paying for subway or bus fare and returning home to a 400 sq ft studio apartment.
“an odd pastime”
Not a pastime at all - just interesting to see the direct observation from someone who lives there, on what the effects of shutting down business and commerce is having.
The city will survive, but the economics of it will be very different, I suspect.
Remember the NYC Bonds in the early 70’s were selling at 4 cents on the dollar. NYC was bankrupt.
Not ever having been a New Yorker, I don’t know how accurate this article is, but Boy, is it well written. The author writes in first person, describing events in a chronological
manner, all the while listening to a variety of reactions.
He is objective enough to include reactions from many New Yorkers, some of whom don’t agree with him. I usually wouldn’t stay with an article quite this long.
Good. The sooner it dies will make Upstate secession more of a possibility. We chafe under the socialist influence NYC has on policy emanating from Albany. Additionally, you know darn well what the Democratic answer to all the problems will be; raise taxes. The rest of NY will suffer as a result. Get the divorce started before this happens.
Some NYers are heartbroken over what is happening to the city we love but you do your little “happy dance” if that makes you feel good.
Bump
Brutal and spot on.
Here in San Francisco I went to my boss and informed him, didn’t ask him; “We should write off San Francisco for a few years. I mean just ignore them”
He agreed and that was the end of the discussion.
We sell coffee service to corporations and the streets of San Francisco are just plain dead as Manhattan.
Actually eerie
Not worth the time trying to find some obscure organization at work
Just another self absorbed Noo Yawker...as tho no other place existed.
Get over yourselves.
“hardly no spring”
This is true. In late May many of us new yorkers are still wearing our winter jackets.
No different than CA. Choking bumper to bumper traffic, way too many people...Mostly the wrong kind, liberal politicians in every direction, crime, millions of illegals, smothering taxes, regulations.
CA was like a big party that got crashed about 25 years ago and it’s steadily gone downhill.
May to October or November or if you like the holiday season (not being PC - I just consider the Holiday Season to be from just Halloween/Thanksgiving thru Christmas and New year), if you like Christmas in the city at least stay until December 26th. Most New Yorkers do not go to Times Square for new Years (mostly tourists do that). They stay at home and watch it on TV if they’re not at a New Years party closer to home in their own borough.
But for the warm to hot weather definitely from May thru september.
Depends on what you think the best month ought to be.
I hate the place in the summer. Then again I hate summer.
Spring is wonderful as the streets lined with trees begin to bloom. Always a great time to take in museums.
Fall is great for letting you know that heavier style meals are coming and I just love seeing the streets decorated as the holidays progress.
Love going to the churches. Not Catholic but, they are so beautiful and I feel like I’m close to God as I light a candle consider someone or something important to me.
Winter is so much fun. Everything is decorated, Wollman is open, eating bagels at Eli’s Bread Factory and having a cup of coffee start my day as I walk from 1st and Lexington down to World Trade and discover sights I missed before
Actually a very extremely good article with most excellent analysis. Oddly when this pandemic is over it will have changed the way business is done and education. My son frequently traveled to New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and London and India and many world wide destinations. Today he does the exact same thing via Zoom from his office in his home. Oddly efficiency has increase and both sides like this.My point is education is far to expensive as it subscribe to the classic method of classroom.
Some areas of study such as medicine, pharmacy,chemistry need much lab and hands on work. Most of the underlying courses could be done on the very cheap.
Higher education is an economic scam.
I just renewed my flight instructors rating, I am really a retired geologist and pharmacist and just do this for fun. I did everything on line for the continuing education. AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) has a web site where one takes all the courses and passes or fails. Once passed they submit the data to the FAA. I am then given a new temporary license oddly from AOPA good for 4 months until the FAA processes everything. I must still take a "check ride" with a licensed instructor. That is the easy part.
AOPA does all this for the grand sum of 100 dollars. In the past I would need to go to Houston and rent a hotel room for two days, attend the seminar, and pay for the seminar.
Oddly when submitting for approval for the course photo ID was required. I simply scanned my flying licenses and drivers license into my computer and then uploaded it to AOPA and they did the rest. 100 dollars well spent.
I’m willing to bet most think it’s blacks..You can see them at the magnificent mile etc.....The rioters are all over the net...Blacks stand out...BLM and ANTIFA.....
October is the best, I’d say.
NY will have to go through needed change before it comes back.
Bandwidth is amazing and has changed things, but people are still by nature social creatures.
Businesses may have meetings remotely, but those remote meetings will find their limitations. When that happens, we will modify.
I hope you’re wrong. I love New York. I’m a native.
Cuomo “was never that great”.
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