Posted on 04/03/2017 7:36:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
My part of NJ is included in this (about a dozen miles west of lower Manhattan); people are wising up to the fact that rather than buying homes here, we were just renting them from the teachers’ unions - and when you own them outright, you’ll still pay nearly one thousand a month in union dues (property taxes).
In areas that aren’t very nice anymore...
All that you say has been my fear for years! I don’t mind these folks moving in, but leave NY & NJ politics behind! It’s (perhaps) the reason they left, anyway.
Rivaling Chicago, in particular, and Kalifornia, in general.
It describes how the Americans fleeing are being replaced by immigrants; the population isn’t dropping, but very much changing.
That is the purpose of “sanctuary cities” - to prevent the high-cost liberal bastions from becoming ghost towns.
Like NJ, NY has tremendous potential; it also is horribly anti-business, and workers are soon disgusted providing EVERYTHING for a growing population that refuses to work.
Again, I don’t see it. Skyscrapers going up all around me and tall ones too. On 57th St alone there are several 1,000+ foot towers either just built or under construction. My Metro North train is increasingly crowded with working people in business suits. So all those on this thread pumping their fists in delight that NYC is crumbling are falling for fake news.
I detest DeBlasio and his policies like everyone else here and believe that any mayor making his town a sanctuary city for illegal immigration belongs in jail. Maybe NYC gets a bette mayor this year. But I’m not seeing “white flight” from NYC. My company is opening up a third NYC office in the Industry City area of Brooklyn and the growth and gentrification of that area over the past few years has been astonishing.
We’re NYSers. We’re not libs. Not on the dole. And we will be bugging out as soon as we retire. To a right to work state with the highest percentage of makers to takers.
15 years ago countless lives were saved by the high vacancy rate in the World Trade Center; the replacement has less space because the demand was already falling.
My area to the west isn’t losing population; it is losing AMERICAN population. The county north of me recently added a third language to government business (ballots and such): Korean. As for NYC, I’ve always thought it was filled with foreigners (not a criticism, just a fact); a friend that works there described how he could tell they were filming a movie there: Too many whites (the extras) milling about.
Well, Upstate looks like a ghost town.
The most blatant admission of what was happening in the NYC area came out a couple of years ago when the project for a third tunnel under the Hudson River was scrapped (due to lack of demand); the supporters, primarily interested in decades of workfare jobs associated with the project, pointed out that people might need it for not work, but to SEE A BROADWAY SHOW.
Yea, because lord knows the world runs on baseball.
I would disagree that there is lack of demand for additional Hudson tunnels. Spend rush hour at Penn Station or the Port Authority bus terminal and you’ll see what I mean. The real issue is that NJ and NY can’t get their act together but I believe Trump’s infrastructure plan will get that much needed project moving forward. The existing rail tunnels are aging and could fail soon, which would be a nightmare for NJ commuters.
I have it pretty good commuting from Connecticut. Metro North is well run and Grand Central Terminal is a model of efficiency compared to Penn.
Let the US taxpayer bailout NYC? No way!
Good or bad, Trump campaigned on improving infrastructure.
Yeah...In red States.
We shall see.
You elected deblasio, you deal with him.
Correct, watched it with my own eyes. It used to be a terrific place. Now Marin County (home to me) is becoming exactly the sort of bourgeoisie vs. downtrodden schism that Commie literature is full of and to hear them tell it, it's somehow the fault of Republicans.
“...turned upstate into a kind if Appalachia...”
So true and sad. So very many of these once beautiful and thriving upstate downtowns are ghost towns now with an occasional tatoo parlor mixed in for the Section 8 residents that are left.
NYC and its liberal poison is a drain on the entire state.
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