Posted on 08/12/2020 4:12:10 AM PDT by karpov
It’s not just a few Upper West Siders who are fleeing New York: Moving companies say they’re 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 who’ve 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.
It’s 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 couldn’t 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 who’ve 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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Dear NYCers. Do NOT consider Louisville. We got enough problems with outside agitators.
“...and the sheer obliviousness of pols like Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo....”
New Yorkers are disgusted with Cuomo and DiBlasio and desperately want different democrats to vote for.
When they leave NYC they will bring their attitudes and voting habits with them. I was born in Manhattan. My surname traces to a settler in New Netherlands in 1664. I grew up in Queens, my siblings all still live there. I left in 1980, and never looked back.
Even with Guliani the place is crowded, expensive and dirty. If you are wealthy, I suppose that the restaurants and theater and museums can make living there tolerable, but for a middle class schmoo you need twice the income for half the lifestyle.
Get out, and when you leave, vote Republican.
New Yorkers are disgusted with Cuomo and DiBlasio and desperately want different democrats to vote for.
Thanks for that moment of inspiration...........truthfully cruel.....
The democRat religion runs deep and strong.
They finally got a clue
That's the objective. There's big money behind all this (no names, please) chaos. His intention is to force liberal scumbags to disperse into civilized states and cities and bring their scumbag liberal politics with them.
And it's working.
“New Yorkers are disgusted with Cuomo and DiBlasio and desperately want different democrats to vote for.”
Perfectly stated. I wish you were wrong, but you’re 100% correct.
They’ll migrate to places with lower taxes, less crime, fiscally responsible politicians — and vote to transform all of that into the Democrat-run hellhole they fled from.
From some random Freepers profile: I was raised one of seven children in Catholic lower-middle class Democrat family. Weren’t we all? Franklin Roosevelt was a secular saint in our house, John Kennedy was just short of being a member of the Trinity.
“Some may even return; a reported spike in storage-space business is a sign they will.”
Doubt it. They probably are storing things until they get settled in their new place of residence and until they can pay the expense of moving their belongings.
Depending on who they elect, the second time around, that might be describing what it’s like to jump out of the frying pan, into the fire. 😁
Jealously is driving this. The NYC “untermensch” are messing up everything. Why? If they can’t have a nice place to live then NOBODY in NYC can have a nice safe place to live. If NYC is a run down mess like it used to be ( pre Giuliani ) it kind of elevates untermensch social status.
A word to the fools fleeing NYC. Don’t come to Colorado and vote your BS. We already have too many fools from CA doing exactly that, and guess what? Yep, they are ruining the State. We don’t need you New Yorkers helping them.
Like the fall of Saigon.
And do not even THINK about coming to Tennessee!
When are these two commies up for re-election? Rudy should run again.
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