New York, Once a Lure, Is Slowly Losing the Creative Set

NY Times ^ | December 18, 2005 | JENNIFER STEINHAUER

[Pharmboy]

Notice the "left leaning?" I've never seen a conservative group described as "right leaning;" always "right wing" or "conservative." If the Times says "left leaning" they must be Marxist.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Way out there past tin foil land is the nexus of right and left. If the NYT says left leaning, that is the place.

[OldFriend]

Thank heaven they're moving from one left wing America hating bastion to another.

Seattle can have them!

[kittymyrib]

Lots of ad business in Dallas now.

[libertylover]

I the "old days" I can see the advantage of businesses being being physically close together..."Here boy, run this box of documents over to Smith and Jones on 34th Street"...But with phones and the internet etc., one can be almost anywhere in the world and do many of those jobs.

If you call Dell's support number, you end up talking to someone in India (and hope you can understand their accent).

[battlegearboat]

Yeah, before long, Dallas and Houston will have it all.

[ncountylee]

Don't forget the AIDS contribution.

[the invisib1e hand]

If the Times says "left leaning" they must be Marxist.

Actually, I think "moderate" means "Marxist" to them. "Left leaning" would be a circle all the way back to "Fascist," I'd say.

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The person pictured is named "Hope?" As in, a "she?"

[randita]

New York commuters are moving to the Poconos (in PA) by the droves. Pike and Monroe Counties are the largest growing counties in PA. Closest place to NYC where they can get affordable housing.

A planned high speed train line from DE Water Gap into NYC will increase the influx to the Poconos even more. Alas, the Poconos, once a lazy, quiet retreat, is quickly growing to resemble North Jersey.

[KarlInOhio]

"...But with phones and the internet etc., one can be almost anywhere in the world and do many of those jobs.

But just make sure that New York can collect taxes on them. I saw on FR one man who lived in Tennessee but worked for a company in NYC and either New York State or City (or both) required him to pay New York income taxes.

[Pharmboy]

Yes...excellent point.

[TheGeezer]

potters

New Yawk leads the nation in the number of potters in the city? We certainly must be talking about more than throwing a few pots from clay, right?

[Max in Utah]

But New York City's creative sector - which includes architects, potters, filmmakers and clothing designers - has long helped fuel the city's economy because of its size and its role in drawing the wealthy to town.

The potters are leaving? Wow, old NYC is certainly doomed now.

[Max in Utah]

LOL! Those darned potters!

[montag813]

I can assure you that the "artists" who enjoy rent-controlled apartments are not going anywhere.

[uglybiker]

Yes. Potters are leaving.

But only the ones named 'Harry'.

nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!

[cgbg]

"artists" who enjoy rent-controlled apartments aren't going anywhere

Even when they die they are not going anywhere. :-)

I remember hearing Rudy G. praising rent control in Manhattan. "It is the most valuable real estate in the world so we have to do it" he said.

Such flawed economic thinking in a potential Presidential candidate is very scary.

For those who don't understand try reading Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson".

Rent control grossly distorts the real estate market and its second, third, and fourth order effects are incredible.

[Pharmboy]

I forgot about that...excellent point.

[bert]

The artists are starving because they have gone too far into esoteric pursuits to make products for which there is no demand.

New York is too expensive for the starving artists to exist even by historical standards. They flee to academia where artistic idealism has built inassailable defenses supported by tax $$$

[mollynme]