[KellyAdmirer]

If you move out of NYC, you better be making big money or you won't be able to afford Nassau County, Westchester, White Plains etc., let alone the Connecticut suburbs. I doubt many want to trade NYC for Newark, either. So, if people are leaving the area completely, it makes economic sense.

I like how the Times gets in a few insinuations about how this is the first time blacks are leaving since "mobs attacked blacks during the draft riots." Just another step in the Times' subliminal campaign to make post-Clinton times seem deadly to the poor little minorities.

[durasell]

A lot of them are retired city and federal workers. They've put in their 25 years in working. They can sell the house they bought for $80,000 for $350,000 or $500,000 and split for a state where living is cheaper. A pension and $500,000 in the bank at age 50 is pretty good.

[Clemenza]

Why oh why anyone would choose "Na-sawer" County (where I grew up) I have no idea. Ugly, overpriced houses, low class people who live in $500,000 little homes they inherited from their parents, obnoxious attitudes, mediocre schools.

Better to go to Connecticut or North Jersey if you have the bucks.