Posted on 05/17/2020 2:42:27 PM PDT by absalom01
New York City has long been a cheek-to-jowl town with cramped apartments and determined strivers. But starting in March, as the coronavirus outbreak here began, parts of the city emptied out, with many leaving from New York's wealthiest neighborhoods. Mail-forwarding requests show where a number of them went. Some abandoned the Upper West Side for sunny Miami. Others left Gramercy Park for New Jersey. Some left Brooklyn apartments for California.
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Thanks guys, that's just great.
East, go east!
Did you really expect anything less .... you are talking about the elite bottom feeders of the world.
Many of the people who left were millennials just starting out who were paying enormous rents to live in Manhattan. Obviously, if your office is closed and you can’t go out this makes little sense, so they left for the suburbs.
Back on March 21 I was saying to quarantine New York.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3826812/posts?page=3#3
You can’t keep me out Del Boca Vista!
If, like Rush said the other day, they move to a in home office deal, why in the hell would anyone pay high rent in NYC when they could work at home in a low rent town?
The place could see a huge surge in people getting to hell out.
Or Tuscany.
PA.
Assholes.
Did it really say “California”?
Chamomile tea just shot out my nose.
I know some who went to the Catskills to escape.
Crap, now they are going to turn California into a blue state.
These scum bring two virus: WuFlu and Liberalism.
As long as they stay above the North Carolina Border, I don’t care where they go but do NOT come to florida.
Good call. I seem to recall that Rhode Island had a similar idea, but now it’s clear that Trump’s early action to shut off travel from China prevent significant infection from coming directly from Wuhan.
It had to travel first to Lombardy, then to NY, and then throughout the US.
Good to note for the next wave.
No, there's nothing available in Tuscany, the houses are passed down from generation to generation, it's very hard.
Unless they can sublet an awesome rent controlled unit for $600/month.
A lot of the NYC millennials are Trump-hating trust fund brats. They all voted for Warren Wilhelm Jr who has now, in his tireless quest to outshine the incompetent corruptocrat in Albany, out-killed the 9/11 terrorists.
Of course, the Corrupto-in-Chief won the prestigious Zeke Emanuel Award for healthcare cost cutting via senior population control..
Sympathy is in short supply.
Any New Yorkers ‘escaping’ to Aiken County, SC can leave their NY attitudes and politics at the county line. Thank you.
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