Posted on 04/03/2017 7:36:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York, New York. So nice they say it twice. But it’s apparently not nice enough anymore for people to want to stick around. The NY Post highlights some recent population figures which indicate that a growing number of Gotham residents (that would be rapidly growing) either don’t want to live there anymore or simply can’t afford to. In either case, there’s a bit of an exodus going on and the Big Apple is losing residents faster than any other major metropolitan area in the country.
More people are leaving the New York region than any other major metropolitan area in the country.
More than 1 million people moved out of the New York area to other parts of the country since 2010, a rate of 4.4 percent — the highest negative net migration rate among the nation’s large population centers, US Census records show.
The number of people leaving the region — which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island — in one year swelled from 187,034 in 2015 to 223,423 in 2016, while the number of international immigrants settling in the tristate area dwindled from 181,551 to 160,324 over the same period, records show.
More than a million people in six years is not normal ebb and flow. To be fair, we should emphasize the fact that this isn’t just New York City… it includes the outlying areas of New Jersey and the inner reach of Long Island. It also doesn’t include the rest of New York State. (You know… the unfashionable, more rural upstate region where I live.)
Part of it is certainly the cost of living and that’s what the Post article focuses on primarily. When the economy improves, rent and mortgage costs skyrocket faster in that town than almost anywhere else and it’s already one of the most expensive places in the country to live. According to Fortune Magazine last December, the average price of an apartment in the Big Apple is now over two million dollars. Yes, you read that correctly… that’s for an apartment. By contrast, a bit more than five hours away to the northwest, a three bedroom colonial with a fenced in yard a couple of blocks down the hill from me sold for $85K this winter. If you could plunk that property down in the middle of Manhattan it would probably cost at least $25M.
But that’s not the only factor. Another cost of continuing to elect Democrats for generations is that New York State is one of the most heavily taxed states in the nation and the city is even worse. Progressive policies have led to some of the most invasive regulations and childish rules imaginable. (Though that’s something the true, diehard liberal progressives shouldn’t be complaining about.) All in all, if you want to live in New York City you’d better like a lot of government in your life and be prepared to fund it out of your paycheck every week at a steep clip.
In any event, you can add all of those factors up and it’s no wonder that people are fleeing. At this point we can only hope that the trend continues until the upstate population outnumbers them and we can get the state government back under control. Well… we can dream, anyway.
Yup. I live in a small Washington state town that is now the 23rd fastest growing urban area in the US.
There is affordable housing and very liberal politics so the medium and low income people are both happy.
“crap...that means they are coming here.”
My thought exactly
Then they come south and crap in our homes. Liberals are cockroaches
“Quick blow all the bridges over the Potomac.”
I think you may want to do that on the Hudson River. The Potomac keeps the people in Washington DC.
People just want to live without unnecessary government interference, regulations and oppression.
“People just want to live without unnecessary government interference, regulations and oppression.”
No, they can see that “other people’s money” in New York is running out. But here’s the clue, it’s also running out here in California, so stop somewhere else.
Don’t want them either!
Without New York, America would tank. It has the financial corporations, it’s the media capital of the world. The farms in upstate New York. The Hamptons and suburban Long Island lifestyle.
Don’t mess with New York. I travel there occasionally. Staten Island is a good place to visit. Queens is a good place to visit.
Don’t mess with New York—also—the state with the most baseball championships—New York Yankees.
New York will be back—trust me.
Then they come south and crap in our homes. Liberals are cockroaches
Don’t mess with NY.
And call 911 constantly about hearing gunshots at night.
RE: New York will be back—trust me.
Of course. AS soon as we get rid of the De Blasio’s and Cuomo’s in Albany.
There used to be a time when NYC was considered an ungovernable hell hole until Giuliani became Mayor ( and Bloomberg, to his credit, until he went Nanny State, continued his law and order policies ).
But first, the residents will have to come back to their senses.
They and the New Joisyites bring their politics with them.
I read that over a thousand transplants are moving into Florida PER DAY. I'll bet the farm that a disproportionate number of them will be from these two northeastern states. I live in a subdivision that is loaded with them.
A couple more elections cycles, Florida will become a permanently-blue state.
Leni
STAY!!! You people turned New York in to a fetid swamp. We don’t need you infesting any other states.
RE: Without New York, America would tank.
We’ve had 3 prominent New Yorkers in Washington DC. One thankfully, did not get to the White House ( again ).
But the President is a New Yorker and so is the Senate Minority Leader, and so are a lot of folks in the present Cabinet.
That is funny because that is happening here, complaints about gun shots shooting squirrels or noise from my gun range.
Going to Florida, and voting in both states?
They infested that state in the 70's. That is what ruined the state and turned it into the liberal hellhole it is today.
That was fun.
You say that like it is something to be proud of.................
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