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I’m a native New Yorker conflicted over leaving. Here’s why I’m doing it anyway(Why one lifelong New Yorker decided to deploy the nuclear option: A move to Jersey)
New York Post ^ | September 10, 2020 | Sachi Ezura

Posted on 09/10/2020 12:03:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway

I am leaving New York next week. Add me to the list. Another tick in the “New York is dead” column. Or maybe in the “Cowards who can’t wait out the pandemic” column. Wag your finger at me or shake your head in disgust. Tut tut. Tsk tsk. Don’t worry. I’m already doing it to myself.

Let me backtrack. I was born at Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side. I spent my childhood in 20 different apartments across the Upper West Side and beyond, shuttling between my mom’s and my dad’s. My dad moved to Connecticut, then Montreal, then Japan. I switched from attending private school on the Upper West Side to a magnet school on the Upper East, where I met most of my best friends. I went to college in Boston (okay, fine, Harvard), immediately moved back home after college, then set up shop in the various neighborhoods young people flock to across New York — East Village, Murray Hill, Williamsburg.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: badabing; badaboom; corybooker; crime; economy; gardenstate; newjersey; newyork; philmurphy
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To: nickcarraway

So glad this UWS liberal is moving to New Jersey where he/she can do no harm with sick liberal voting. New Jersey is already dead anyway.


61 posted on 09/10/2020 4:27:24 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah well, as long as they stay out of NC, SC, GA, FL. We don’t need or want DemonRats fleeing the crap they created coming here and trying to cause the same mayhem they left.


62 posted on 09/10/2020 4:27:28 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: FLT-bird
"...NYC has some of THE most provincial and myopic people you will meet anywhere..."

And yet, so many of them think they are the most cosmopolitan people in the U.S. and the rest of us are just dumb hicks...

63 posted on 09/10/2020 4:45:39 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: McGruff

Can you imagine having this insufferable snob move next door?


64 posted on 09/10/2020 4:54:56 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: nickcarraway

Hello Fire, meet Frying Pan. I think I would get off the stove all together but of course I have not been raised the way most nortenos think


65 posted on 09/10/2020 5:01:50 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: jmacusa

How wide.


66 posted on 09/10/2020 5:03:12 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: FLT-bird

Well said.


67 posted on 09/10/2020 5:06:24 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: jmacusa
Hey, ease up, huh? We’re not all liberals here.

And we're also not all "which exit?" either. New Jersey is actually quite beautiful west of 287; and don't forget the wonderful Jersey Shore and the Monmouth County horse country.

68 posted on 09/10/2020 5:31:09 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: irishjuggler
no part of Utah is south of Vegas

The point is that Noo Yawkuz don't know what the rest of the country looks like and they don't care to learn.


69 posted on 09/10/2020 5:37:51 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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To: nickcarraway
Hey, Sachi. As you move into Joyzee, be careful not to be trampled by the natives running out.


70 posted on 09/10/2020 5:41:53 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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To: nickcarraway

Most of my clan is NYC/NJ people, with a foot in both worlds, the rest have fled to PA.
You can have a great big house with a lot of land around it, and still be less than half an hour from Manhattan, if you want to pay Jersey taxes. The taxes were the deal breaker for my parents, so I grew up in PA.
We are a thrifty breed, so we won’t return to the east, but Jersey is a beautiful state and there are plenty of solid red counties, they only lack the population numbers to prevent liberal politics.


71 posted on 09/10/2020 6:04:17 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: jmacusa
Hey, ease up, huh? We’re not all liberals here.

Trump Rally - Wildwood NJ, January 28, 2020.

Thousands in line for Trump’s rally in Wildwood

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massive-crowds-form-for-trumps-new-jersey-rally-amid-impeachment-fight




Reading many of the responses on this thread is disheartening. Amazing that so many Conservatives are so blind.

With their attitude, we are going to lose.

72 posted on 09/10/2020 6:11:24 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

I am seeing it first hand here in southern NH. People are moving here from NYC, MA, CA and paying prices we see as crazy. The prices people pay at the top of the market. The real estate market has been going up here for eight years straight. The biggest percentage increase is in the last year.

Of course, this is also being pushed by record low interest rates(2.9% for 30 mortgage). My first mortgage was 10.375.

The funny thing about this article is that some of the really rich people on the upper east side of Manhattan never even go over to the upper west side. It is an old money thing vs the new money people. This author sounds like she comes from the old money crowd. Their kids go to $30K/year daycare/kindergarten. Prep schools and Ivy League Universities. If your kid is smart they go to Princeton, Harvard or Yale. If they want to be a doctor the choice is Harvard or Dartmouth. If they are dumb, they go to Brown.


73 posted on 09/10/2020 7:00:12 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: nickcarraway

I’m just glad their not coming to Texas!!!!


74 posted on 09/10/2020 7:05:50 AM PDT by ontap
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To: nickcarraway

Jersey, UGH

This is how Brooklynites feel about Jersey. I have a total of 20 aunts and uncles, over 30 first cousins. All of them lived in Brooklyn. We would get together for holidays, picnics, birthdays, etc. One of my Mother’s sisters family moved to Jersey, and it was like they moved to Mars. No one went to visit, and we rarely saw them at family events after that. They were essentially outcast.


75 posted on 09/10/2020 7:18:59 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I'm Joe Biden and they tell me I approve this message.)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

Your he is a she, but your point still stands.


76 posted on 09/10/2020 7:58:59 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: nickcarraway
From the linked article:”How will you make sure she goes to museums or meets diverse people or understands inequality? “

These people deserve each other.

77 posted on 09/10/2020 8:02:47 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: nickcarraway
For many New Yorkers, moving to New Jersey is worse than throwing yourself in a woodchipper...

No reflection on you...but this is one of the most annoying articles I've ever read. What's the point? The author is a bore. OK...so move 20-30 miles away, the rest of the world will still go on.

78 posted on 09/10/2020 8:04:32 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: JonPreston

I was raised on Long Island but often would visit and lived in the city summer of ‘83. Had a business trip to lower Manhattan last year. Traffic, noise, people bumping into you on busy often dirty streets, crowded trains it’s just not very relaxing and sensory overload all the time. Not for me no thanks and at age 63 I desire less BS nonsense around me.


79 posted on 09/10/2020 8:05:16 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: nickcarraway

I am a native and left for PA years ago. Now the whole place of full of New Yorkers.


80 posted on 09/10/2020 8:05:57 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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