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ESCAPE TO NEW YORK:SUBURBAN ECONOMIC REFUGEES ARE HEADING OUR WAY
NY Post ^
| 20 July 2008
| ERIC TORBENSON
Posted on 07/20/2008 5:11:56 AM PDT by shrinkermd
The tenets of suburban life are the oxygen in the economic bloodstream, and the nation is suffering hypoxia. The reason a lot of folks think we're just getting warmed up on an economic swoon is that the global economy has neatly garroted all the drivers that make suburbs flourish.
...America in the early 2000s was a frothy brew of low inflation and cheap houses financed by what we'd later find out were mortgages handed out like those little dum-dum lollipops at the dentist; everybody got one no matter how bad their teeth. Nothing percolates GDP like the need to fill the screaming maw of a new home with stainless steel appliances, memory foam beds and body sculpting equipment that gathers dust while owners horf down cheese fries at TGIFridays.
To transport those consumer goods from Sam's Club, new homeowners found that cheap fuel allowed a fleet of trucks and SUVs. Their viral proliferation helped create the "virtuous" circle of the profits that flowed up and down Wall Street. The big trucks were some of Detroit's most-profitable autos. We fought terrorism with consumer spending and declared victory.
Except today the suburbs have a sort of fiscal staph infection. The nation's middle class can no longer live in a 3,500-square-foot home and drive a Chevy Yukon 30 miles to work and back each day, fork down a $20 strip steak twice a week at Outback and still make the monthly nut. What leaves that party first is the steak, then the truck, then the house, then the color from the face of the Fed chairman.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: masstransportation; nyc; suburbs
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To: shrinkermd
I wouldn't live in "The Peoples Republik of nyc" if you PAID me to live there.
Hell...
I have ABSOLUTELY no interest in even VISITING that POS left-wing northern city.
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posted on
07/20/2008 7:36:22 AM PDT
by
DocH
(hussein and juan - what kind of choice is THAT? God help us.)
To: DocH
Well, we sure don’t need another a-hole here so thanks for staying away.
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posted on
07/20/2008 7:37:43 AM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: shrinkermd
Heating and cooling a huge home and being scattered far enough from work and shopping turns $5 a gallon-gas and heating oil into 20 percent of your total income instead of 5 percent. Oh, SO WHAT?
OK. I'll move to NYC and pay twice as much to live in a little cell and eat wilted produce. I can hardly wait.
They never give up, do they? They so want the little Democrat-filled nests.
I am so tired of having point out to these advertisers that any company worth working for has been moving out to Industrial and Office parks and corporate campuses for twenty years.
Yet, these stories multiply as the "Journalists" trapped in cities hope so much for an influx of fellow miserable sufferers.
To: CapnJack
If this is what city liberals views of us in the country are, as well as the majority view of city dwellers, then I hope the next terrorist attack hits NYC with a nuke and sterilize that Excrement Stain ... I know I won't cry a tear if it happens.
Woah, that's kind of harsh dude. I'd be satisfied if the only skidmark sniffer smoked is Olberfagg.
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posted on
07/20/2008 7:39:54 AM PDT
by
RoadKingSE
(How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
To: wtc911
I feel sorry for anyone, who is even REMOTELY conservative, that lives there.
Poor (stupid?) bastards.
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posted on
07/20/2008 7:40:26 AM PDT
by
DocH
(hussein and juan - what kind of choice is THAT? God help us.)
To: oh8eleven
It may not be Middle America, but people are being told they have to give up enjoying life.
26
posted on
07/20/2008 7:47:48 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
To: rlmorel
The Big Sh*tty Liberals seem to forget that Big Sh*tty living costs are astronomical.
A pox upon all of them!
27
posted on
07/20/2008 8:03:15 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
To: DocH
Save your pity, we’re doing just fine.
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posted on
07/20/2008 8:11:08 AM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: shrinkermd
are these people who left the city and now have given up suburbia returning, OR, are they born and bred suburbanites moving into the city for the first time???
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posted on
07/20/2008 8:23:51 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
To: wtc911
Dollar wise, maybe. Freedom wise? I don’t think so.
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posted on
07/20/2008 8:27:03 AM PDT
by
DocH
(hussein and juan - what kind of choice is THAT? God help us.)
To: shrinkermd
The tenets of suburban life are the oxygen in the economic bloodstream, and the nation is suffering hypoxia. The reason a lot of folks think we're just getting warmed up on an economic swoon is that the global economy democRat Party has neatly garroted all the drivers that make suburbs flourish.
Fixed it.
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posted on
07/20/2008 8:27:29 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: shrinkermd
Kinda hard to grow a garden in the city, isn’t it? A bad economy would drive people OUT of the cities into the country.
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posted on
07/20/2008 8:29:57 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: Chode
My guess is, as another poster noted, these are immigrants both legal and illegal rather than white flight from the suburbs to NYC.
To: shrinkermd
thx... that's even worse. i guess i was just thinking about city people moving back to the city have a better chance of finding adequate housing with an idea where they want to live, than those moving in without a clue.
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posted on
07/20/2008 9:16:39 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
To: DocH
I do what I want, when I want.
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posted on
07/20/2008 9:27:32 AM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: CapnJack
To: wtc911
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posted on
07/20/2008 3:33:33 PM PDT
by
DocH
(hussein and juan - what kind of choice is THAT? God help us.)
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