Posted on 07/27/2020 12:22:28 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Will people ever return to New York City? Should they?
Walk around Gotham right now, any random day, and you will find an empty, hurting city. Boarded up windows still dot the streets of ghost-town neighborhoods such as SoHo. Greenwich Village is a deserted wasteland of garbage and disarray.
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perhaps the question should be: why would they?
Walk around NYC... it looks like a 3rd world sh*thole not a world class city.
In about 100 AD, the city of greater Rome had a population of about 1 million, which was huge for the ancient world. By the 11th century, the population was 10K or less. These things have very long cycles.
Imagine what NY City would look like if it returned to a village?
Will the people who fled NYC be able to vote in November? Will they come back to vote, register in their new location...or just not vote? It will be interesting to see.
Rich Whites are going to leave NYC. I guess they’ll return when a clone of Rudy Giuliani returns to the city.
They should be brought back. We don’t want them out here.
Dumping that idiot DumBlazio would be a good start,
Rome's cycle went into a bit of a fast forward. The empire split into Western Roman (Capital: Rome) and Eastern Roman (Capital: Constantinople) and all the wealth consolidated in the eastern half. Then the barbarians tore down the aqueducts and sacked Rome, leaving a place without a way to provide consistent drinking water to the large number of people. Lacking wealth and resources and under constant barbarian threat Romans had no way to rebuild their ruined infrastructure. In one fell swoop their death sentence as a major city was signed. They were still a backwater even beyond the renaissance period.
As much as I would not choose to live in NYC they still have far too much wealth and power consolidated there to really take a significant hit in my opinion. Not in the near term anyway.
But then again, Detroit was a huge and powerful city in the USA ... until it wasn't after democrats destroyed it in the 1960s. So I guess nothing is impossible.
What part(s) of NYC do you think are below the waterline? While there are low-lying neighborhoods that have drainage issues, most (nearly all) of the city is above sea level. While there is a need for some pumping after big storms (think superstorm sandy) that’s generally the result of the subways or clogged drains.
Yes, that and wiping corrupt Albany off the map, too.
hey, it’s the 70’s all over again!...................
Detroit 1949 / 2010
I feel like the motto of the democrat party ought to be ‘Did you say it can’t happen here? Hold my beer!’
In the modern age, people of means can move and move fast.
NYC can collapse quicker than any of us can imagine.
I grew up in the Bronx and left for the military after college in 1969. Still always loved to visit NYC and see my family, but knew I would live elsewhere once I saw all that was west of the Hudson River. Not much to back to now - sad!
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