Posted on 08/12/2020 4:12:10 AM PDT by karpov
Its not just a few Upper West Siders who are fleeing New York: Moving companies say theyre swamped with calls from residents looking to ditch the city even though the COVID crisis has waned.
One likely reason: The virus was but the last straw; New Yorkers are fed up with the shootings and lootings, homelessness on the streets, sub-par online schools, sky-high taxes and the sheer obliviousness of pols like Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
On Sunday, The Post highlighted families whove given up on the Upper West Side now teeming with junkies, the homeless, convicts and others and are headed for greener pastures outside Gotham.
Meanwhile, Fox Business reports that moving companies are seeing a continuing surge in citywide business that began soon after the COVID outbreak. And while many of those fleeing may come from Manhattan, the trend is surely not confined to the Upper West Side.
Its been insanely busy, Roadway Moving President Ross Sapir told Fox. Indeed, he says this has been the busiest summer ever for the company. For the last three months, we couldnt keep up with demand.
Oz Moving says the number of relocations continues to rise at a substantial rate. It was booked to capacity earlier in the year than in any of the previous 27 years.
United Van Lines, too, cites a whopping 95 percent spike, year over year, in interest in moving out of Manhattan between May and July, versus just 19 percent nationally.
Sure, many of those whove headed out were merely trying to escape COVID, which socked the city in the spring. Some may even return; a reported spike in storage-space business is a sign they will.
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Florida is full, don’t go there, I hear that its even sinking in some areas from to much weight.
I left in 1985 for Japan and have never looked back . Here , in “some ways “ , I feel like I am re-living USA 50’s .
These are New Yorkers fleeing in droves....
gangs, "the virus"...rats, and RATs...it's all the same thing.
If you have any doubt what kind of Politics they will bring with them, just look at what the California Migrants have done and are still doing to the once Conservative City of Austin Texas.
They’re doing that to Charlotte. I work for banks. I know a few people in banking up there who are DYING to get transferred down here. Even taking the 20% haircut in salary the banks demand, their standard of living still rises dramatically.
The problem is this place is getting swamped with Leftist Yankees who vote for all the same crap that ruined where they came from. They even sheepishly laugh when you point out that the things they voted for back home (their utopia!) ruined it. Yet they keep right on voting for the same crap. Its amazing.
And they will if the people fleeing New York and other leftist hellholes vote in the same policies, in their new locations, that caused them to flee.
Absolutely! Move! But, don’t bring your NY politics, and attitude, with you!
...and the knowledge that it will only get worse, and quickly.
If they all migrate to, say, the east coast of Florida, it might tip over!
Thank you!
Congressman Hank Johnson
What a moron! “Liberalism” is indeed an incurable mental illness.
Will Rogers said, “Some men learn by reading, some learn by observation, and some just have to pee on the electric fence.” Those that leave NYC, then continue to vote Democrat in their new location definitely fall into Will’s last category. Unfortunately that category will be very large, and they will poison the well at their new location. They are simply stuck on stupid.
I find it interesting that there were electric fences in Will’s day
Or Alabama!
Shoot!!! Theyre coming to Florida and texas!!! NO VACANCY HERE IN TEXAS... Crawl over to New Mexico and California you will feel right at home there!!! The red east coast states will feel the need influx badly!! UGH!! Stay home and fix your damn LIBERAL HELLHOLE STATE!!!
Dear New Yorkers, if your a Liberal, Texas doesn’t want you either. Go North to Canada. It’s Liberal and much closer for you.
They are flocking to Atlanta and already turning it into a chithole. We are packing up and moving to the mountains as are many other southerners. We have had all the diversity we can stomach.
Yep, Texas doesn’t want them. We have enough already with Austin - quickly turning into a liberal hell hole, Houston - just dumped a lesbian ultra liberal mayor for a black ultra liberal mayor, and was already not a nice place to live...not to mention Dallas and little mexico, I mean San Antonio...
We don’t want ya, stay in New York...you voted for it, now live with it.
Seems like most nu yoikers go to Florida? Giving it a purplish hue.
The fact that residents of NYC are RENTERS makes this exodus more likely to continue to happen. No worries about trying to sell their house.
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