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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Think again about leaving NY. What you think you see on the other side of the Hudson is only an illusion. Don’t cross it and fall off of the edge of the world! ;)
I’m doing the same “happy dance” for the now filthy city of Chicago dying that I grew up in and identify with and used to love. Evil must die. Elections have consequrnces.
Exactly, the Government
Enabled every bit of This
Combined Destruction,
Covid,
Lockdown and Riots.
No one would Reinvest!
“ Friends of mine moved to Nashville, Miami, Austin, Denver, Salt Lake City, Austin, Dallas, etc.”
James is your classic NY liberal trump hater.
NYC will be destroyed by a tidal wave after a giant meteor strikes the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, Sept. 20th 2020 or a within few days after. Two thirds of the US population will die on during this period.
It will never be inhabited again.
How do I know? The Day of the Lord is here. Research it. You have very little time.
Jesus is Lord
Cities like London, Paris, Rome and Berlin have risen, fallen (sometimes several times), and risen again.
New York is just now on a very low point in the changing tides of fortune that come to and depart from every municipality of size and note. Most cities worthy of note sit astride either a port that has means to connect with the interior, or upon a land route that passes through, and that locality has means to provide a rest point and provisions for passing traffic. Cities do not thrive in isolation, and New York City is effectively isolated from much of the rest of the United States.
You couldn't have read the article or watched Tucker tonight.
NYC is deader than Kelsy's nuts and it's going to stay that way.
You would want to visit NYC in the Fall. Please note there is a lovely song “Autumn in New York “ there’s no Springtime in NY or April in NY. Spring is cold and then it goes instantaneously to hot and miserable. I was born in NY and lived there until I was 30 years old. There’s pretty much no Americans who live there any more and it’s a shame to see the hard work that Rudy Giuliani did be destroyed.
WOW...that is hard to imagine.
Tucker... is that a show?!?
The U.S. version of urban blight, if you rely on ample empirical evidence, is largely a non-reversible process. Once money moves out, it ain’t coming back. They may try to ‘renew’ an area, but it’s usually lipstick on a pig, like upscale condos in a high crime area.
All the major cities have damaged themselves by electing socialists. They may not die today but they are in definite decline. I think the major American city has seen its heyday. And really we dont need them to be the center of everything. People generally want more breathing space and are able to work outside of the major cities and thrive. They health of the United States doesn’t have to be measure in the greatness of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
R U Kidding?!
Restaurants didn't shut down. Macy's wasn't looted. Broadway didn't shut down. The Metropolitan Opera didn't shut down. The Metropolitan Museum of Art didn't shut down. The subways ran 24/7. Now they shut down for four hours or something like that) every day. The mayor may have been inept but he wasn't a Communist.
ML/NJ
For a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, you sure are sensitive.
No, he's a homeless wino who lives under the 59th St bridge. Just your typical NY'er.
New York City in the 1970s still had the Stock Exchange and the Wall Street financial firms. Now that it's gone digital, there's no entity in New York to bail it out - which is why these failed Democrat States are trying to sabotage OUR economy to force productive states to pay for THEIR poor management.
No Bailout for Failed States!
LOL, your comment. Sad, but true.
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