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Pack the City, We’re Moving! - Each year, one Yonkers leaves New York for friendlier climes.
City Journal ^ | 11 February 2009 | John M. Murtagh

Posted on 02/12/2009 12:10:29 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 02/12/2009 12:10:29 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Excellent piece.


2 posted on 02/12/2009 12:19:04 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: neverdem

New York is but a small example of what Obama is doing to the nation.
Look at all the money leaving stocks, and soon to follow- businesses- on wall street’s markets.


3 posted on 02/12/2009 12:19:16 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: neverdem

STAY OUT OF PA!

AND YES, I AM YELLING!


4 posted on 02/12/2009 12:20:21 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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To: neverdem
Could I read into this: "The unions are killing us!"? Or, is it: "Gubment taxing us out of the state!?
5 posted on 02/12/2009 12:21:21 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: Bushbacker1

I couldn’t figure out how many are leaving but if they are the libs that have messed up their own state...STAY OUT OF TEXAS. Conservatives are welcome, of course.


6 posted on 02/12/2009 12:24:26 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: neverdem

It might help the Republicans to run some advertising about people leaving areas of Europe, Asia etc. etc. to come to America for opportunity. Then mention that people leave high TAX low Value states for opprtunity. There are plenty of auto jobs in Alabama, South Carolina and Texas - but not in Michigan and OHIO. If they don’t tell the Sheepal they will never learn, because it hasn’t gotten through in NY, Calif or Penn.


7 posted on 02/12/2009 12:25:32 PM PST by q_an_a
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To: neverdem

Ya’ll are welcome to come down, but just don’t bring the politics down with you. I’m in the most conservative part of conservative state and I’m finally making some damn good money. I want to keep it that way.


8 posted on 02/12/2009 12:28:54 PM PST by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: neverdem

Yea, they leave NY & the Northeast & mess up the new place where they settle with their crap.


9 posted on 02/12/2009 12:29:28 PM PST by vidbizz
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To: neverdem
My mother left Westchester County about 8 years ago. Taxes THEN on her average 4 bedroom/2.5 house (built in 1920 and not updated since the 60s) was $13,000...
10 posted on 02/12/2009 12:31:48 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: neverdem

I’m certain your new neighbors will love another Yankee in their midst.

In South Carolina, I’m considered a Yankee, and I’m North Carolina born and bred.


11 posted on 02/12/2009 12:37:26 PM PST by warchild9 (Starve the Beast: don't buy it if you don't need it)
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To: CindyDawg
Conservatives are welcome, of course.

The only viable relocation that has been considered personally.

TEXAS!

State property tax law before aggressively pursuing land ownership is a prudent endeavor however....

Texas is hard to look away from financially and comfort wise in the long run, IMO.

Considering MY present demise, I guess I'm just biased...

12 posted on 02/12/2009 12:39:46 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: vidbizz
I’m thinking we should move to South Carolina. No, not me and the family. The whole city of Yonkers.

Please tell them to stay where they are I plan on moving to South Carolina as soon as the house sells and not to be cruel but I would prefer it wasn't filled with New Yorker complaining that they can't get good pizza and everything is not like it was in the city.

13 posted on 02/12/2009 12:40:21 PM PST by Recon Dad (Marsoc Dad)
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To: warchild9
I know what you mean. I was born and raised in NC (5th generation UNC). I don't want to move back to NC because too many people from MA, NY, & NJ moved there.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

14 posted on 02/12/2009 12:41:15 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: neverdem

Unfortunately, good intentions or not, the mentality of these liberals moving out just Sh@ts in every next they move to.


15 posted on 02/12/2009 12:44:54 PM PST by poobear (a 2-iron is best for killing Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and Water Moccasins...)
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To: LonePalm

If you get outside the cities it’s okay. Down East, where I’m from, it’s still relatively uncontaminated—except on the coast. A lot of Yankees are moving out around here because they’re finding out they can’t maintain households on $10/hr.

AND leaving their life savings, wives and children behind. We call it the “Yankee Trap”: they sell their bloated homes up north, move here, buy a house, can’t get an adult job, lose their families and homes, move the hell back, divorced, poorer and wiser.

The Yankee Trap Process, brought to them by the local real estate industry. Hah!


16 posted on 02/12/2009 12:47:00 PM PST by warchild9 (Starve the Beast: don't buy it if you don't need it)
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To: EGPWS
We aren't perfect. We have property and sales taxes and too many rules, and we can get quiet ornery.
17 posted on 02/12/2009 12:48:08 PM PST by CindyDawg (hope I spelled that right)
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To: neverdem

The liberal areas of the country should be fenced in so they cant leave and mess up the conservative areas. Their own politics created this mess...they voted for the creation of these messes.


18 posted on 02/12/2009 12:52:00 PM PST by Lets Be Frank
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To: CindyDawg
We have property and sales taxes and too many rules, and we can get quiet ornery.

It's the tyranny of property tax that makes me ornery in MN.

TX is the lesser of evils. : - )

19 posted on 02/12/2009 12:53:20 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: poobear
Unfortunately, good intentions or not, the mentality of these liberals moving out just Sh@ts in every next they move to.

John M. Murtagh, Conservative, Republican

His family was bombed by Weathermen, and you think he's enamoured with the left? That makes a lot of sense. /s

Why does almost everyone seem to assume that it's liberals who want to leave NY?

20 posted on 02/12/2009 1:03:48 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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