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.
Please don’t come south...
Recruiters keep calling me about northeast and cali jobs. I keep telling them no thanks and they don’t get it....well some of them do...they’re having trouble filling some of those roles...and it ain’t the money
Is this enough for them to lose a seat in the house of representatives? That would confirm the exodus of legal citizens moreso than any report.
NY is hiring for a ton of construction type work jobs.
Having crapped in their bed, they’re moving in to yours. :)
Like cancer cells loose in the bloodstream, liberals fleeing the hells they have created threaten to infect the rest of the nation.
Poll shows 46% of millennials in the San Francisco Bay Area want to leave.
www.businessinsider.com/millennials-are-fed-up-with-san-francisco-housing-2017-3
3 days ago - It’s so expensive to live in San Francisco, almost half of millennials want to leave
Poll shows 46% of millennials in the San Francisco Bay Area want to leave.
www.businessinsider.com/millennials-are-fed-up-with-san-francisco-housing-2017-3
3 days ago - It’s so expensive to live in San Francisco, almost half of millennials want to leave
but the state pensions...that is who is leaving .....all those fat sucking state retirees and their fat pensions...
hey my leftist retired NYS teacher sister is buying in Florida....why she would want to be around a bunch of church going conservatives and pubs is beyond me....maybe its the taxes...
Who has the dealership for the Droves?
Last century New Hampsihire was converted into a colony of Massachusetts. Colorado is well on its way to being California East and even Idaho is being yuppied to death. Florida has lived with the problem for a century already and has not quite succumbed. Being a long skinny state helps as the New Yorkers almost all go to way down South Florida. Sometimes I wish we could cut the state a bit south of Tampa and give the south part to Venezuela or Cuba.
Last century New Hampsihire was converted into a colony of Massachusetts. Colorado is well on its way to being California East and even Idaho is being yuppied to death. Florida has lived with the problem for a century already and has not quite succumbed. Being a long skinny state helps as the New Yorkers almost all go to way down South Florida. Sometimes I wish we could cut the state a bit south of Tampa and give the south part to Venezuela or Cuba.
John and Martha are sharing breakfast in their new home in Kansas. “Martha, isn’t it nice here without all the crime and the code enforcers all over and all the regulation?” Yes, dear, it really is.” And Martha it would be truly ideal with a few more services, wen need to vote for the compassionate candidates in the election next month.”
Just not seeing it. I commute to NYC nearly every day and I have never seen it so crowded. Skyscrapers going up by the score. Brooklyn and Queens continues to have explosive growth.
Many of people in my FL subdivision are from NC, SC, GA, IA.
But there are also others from NY, MA (Kerry sticker on car!), NJ.
Heraldo keeps saying there are ONE MILLION ILLEGALS in NY City!
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