There is a fairly complex negativity going on in NY City...maybe for a decade now. I can’t see why any Fortune-500 company would keep it’s headquarters there. With the collapse of real estate properties...I would imagine most remaining, have a view of exiting.
Tax revenue? They got problems.
The subway system? In decay since the 1960s.
Crime? No prosecution going on, unless you are deemed an enemy of the state/city.
Central Park landscape? Dangerous and not a place to venture after dark.
Covid simply turned the exit light on.
The Green Mountain Boys in Vermont were organized in the 1700s to fight the New Yorkers.
Donald Trump reminds one of Ethan Allen. The NY governor had put a bounty on Ethan of 10,000 pounds to anyone who captured him.
Ethan rode to Albany, went in a large tavern, ordered and drank a tankard of beer.
He then turned around, facing the crowd, drew his saber and said, "I understand there is a bounty on my head, does anyone want to try to collect it?" Nobody tried.