Don't count on any drill programs while they are in charge.
This is a hateful liberal’s wet dream.
They want everyone to live in the confines of the scummy cities. More control that way.
It’s a fantasy that city dwellers consume less energy than suburbanites. Most suburbanites work relatively near home, many urbanites have long, subsidized commutes.
Most commuters who travel by car as opposed to subsized rail, already use inexpensive four bangers. The Yukons are driven by soccer moms to travel a few miles around town and on occasional vacations. They are still vastly cheaper for vacations than air travel. The urban dwellers use as much fuel flying off on their Carribean vacations as a commuter uses in two monthes.
This is drivel made up from whole cloth woven at a cocktail party.
Somehow I don’t see all that tsunami of humanity that rides the trains into NYC suddenly forsaking the trains for an overpriced studio apartment up the street from Battery Park.
Sounds like somebody secretly wishes they could have a Yukon and backyard pool of their own.
Liberals are the most jealous people on Earth.
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Whatever his intent, he’s not wrong. Cheap money from the political panderers led people to live above their heads.
He doesn’t know New York as well as he thinks. Their are no ‘Far Rockaways.’ The Rockaways comprise a peninsula with Far Rockaway (furthest east) at its base. There is subway service through most of this narrow peninsula.
btt
“Liberal Democrats really hate those in the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas. They welcome gasoline price increases as an economic weapon. “
Well then the joke’s on them. I’m *not* moving to town, much less “the big city” and neither are any of my neighbors. I may end up having to spend all my cash money on gasoline and taxes, but I won’t be totally dependent on others for my food, heat, and the clothes on my back. ;)
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Ostego and Chenango counties? Closing in on NY's "toniest burbs"? These two counties are too far away and too thinly populated to have any impact on NYC area in any way. BIIIIG STREEEETCH for the writer trying to make a point.
As for Far Rockaway....you get there by subway...it is in Queens, not the 'burbs.
Never going to happen in New York.
Even with the cost of gas, you get twice the lifestyle for your dollar in the suburbs. For families who make $250,000 that means tough choices (small apartment or big house, suburban public schools vs. $30k a year private schools, a second car and a commuter train pass vs. taxis). For families who make $100,000 a year, it’s quite literally no choice at all.
The only way that this could change is if New York City were to clean up the ghettos and create some mechanism so that more than a small lucky fraction of middle class people could have a good quality public school for their kids. If Upper Manhattan and most of Brooklyn became livable by the standards of middle class people, than that might really make a big, big change.
Hell...
I have ABSOLUTELY no interest in even VISITING that POS left-wing northern city.
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.
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???
Fixed it.
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.