Posted on 01/31/2008 9:39:40 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
Edited on 02/01/2008 2:28:16 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Imagine living in a city with the country's highest rate for violent crime and the second-highest unemployment rate. As an added kicker you need more Superfund dollars allocated to your city to clean up contaminated toxic waste sites than just about any other metro.
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Yes Newark is and has been considerably worse than those places because it is considerably larger. Camden is a wreck, but it is tiny in comparison. Newark’s sprawl brought down suburbs for miles around. Camden hasn’t. There is Camden, the Camden River, and then healthy to affluent suburbs.
Well, I hope the Rhode Island refugees bring Portuguese restaurants whereever they go.
How does NYC end up between the other two?
I would say the below paragraph sums it up:
"The Big Apple is the nation's center for financial services, publishing, advertising and countless other industries, making job opportunities plentiful. But the costs can make all but the super-wealthy miserable. Housing costs are through the roof, and income tax rates are 10.5%, more than twice the U.S. average. Commuting times are also the worst, at an average of 36 minutes each way."
In other words, in New York it takes forever to get to work, you pay most of your salary for a tiny room to live in, and the government takes the rest of your money in taxes.
Considering that Philly is now the Gay Mecca of the East, that might endear him to the residents.
No, they were angry because the Eagles had won a meaningless game to finish the season 2-11, making them ineligible to receive #1 draft pick OJ Simpson.
Of course this is hardly an isolated incident. The Eagles fans cheared when Michael Irvin broke his neck ending his career.
The City of Philadelphia set up a courtroom inside Veterans Stadium to speed the booking of the many fans arrested each game.
Thank you! (See name)
As far as misery is concerned....
Seattle.
Wet.
Gray.
Full to the brim with liberal slime.
Bigger homosexual population that San Francisco.
Both Senators, Governor, and Mayor-all staunch Democrats.
Need I say more?
Suburban South Jersey is mostly blue collar hell, but you are right that Camden is small relative to the surrounding area.
Believe it or not, your average Chinese/Albanian/Dominican/Ecuadorian/Nigerian would much prefer a large house on a large lot in suburbia than a row house/flat in Queens or Brooklyn.
And living in NYC is the way they will acquire that American dream one day. NYC will also serve to assimilate their children
From the article (which takes income tax into consideration) :
Housing costs are through the roof, and income tax rates are 10.5%, more than twice the U.S. average.
Folks in my neck of the woods look at Philly the way the Corleone’s looked at Fredo. ;-)
I was just glad that for once the rust belt wasn’t picked on. Pittsburgh (and Cleveland) flew under the radar...or maybe we have lost so much of our populations that we are not in the top 150 :( PaMom
Interesting list. But how does New York get a rating of 86 for weather and Philadelphia get a rating of 64 when they’re only about 90 miles apart and have almost identical climates?
LOL! I actually heard that phrase in Atlantic City NJ when I was there for a summer.
“Whats a hoagie? Oh, you mean a sub!”
Of course, that was in the 70s. :)
I knew a (rather attractive) lady from Albania who talked to me about how happy she was to move from Astoria to Staten Island recently. To me, anyone who would think Staten Island is “nice” is insane (breath in all that methane and hair spray!), but to her, it was nice to have a yard and some space.
It’s the horrendous commute times and income taxes, I guess. New York City ranks dead last among the 150 cities in both of those categories.
BTW — the writer, Gary Shteyngart, the author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, wrote a brilliant piece for the NYTs after 9/11. About how growing up as a young immigrant from Russia he wanted a suburban house, lawn, etc. etc. then came back from college and fell in love with the city — after realizing it was his home.
Astoria has an Albanian population? I thought they were all uptown.
When I lived in Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), it took me 45 minutes to get to Midtown on the express bus. Where I live now near Princeton, it takes me 45-55 minutes to midtown by train. This is why I laugh when folks who live in Brooklyn or Queens act as if I live in the boonies and that I have a “long trip.” If you live in the Rockaways or Canarsie, it actually takes longer to get to midtown than if you live in Princeton.
Where is New Orleans on this list?
The Bronx (and Yonkers) have the bulk of the Albanian population, especially in Morris Park and Throgs Neck, where they have replaced the Italians (even buying up all the pizzerias). Nevertheless, a sizeable number moved to Astoria (especially near Steinway) during the 1980s and early 90s.
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