Posted on 08/30/2020 3:18:49 PM PDT by blam
A string of moving trucks was spotted in Manhattans Upper West Side on Saturday, according to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.
The mass evacuation of Upper West Siders from NYC is in full effect, he told the New York Post.
Sliwa blamed the citys decision to house hundreds of homeless people in the neighborhoods hotels for the exodus.
The moment I walked out on my block, near Central Park West, there was a moving truck. I asked where you going, and they said, Virginia. They told me, Curtis, first the pandemic hit us and now the quality of life is so bad,' he recalled.
Sliwa spoke to others moving to places such as New Hampshire and Tennessee, and one young family told him they were headed to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
They said in the last month, there have been so many disturbed people in the streets, aggressively panhandling, defecating, urinating they leave the hotels and have no bathrooms to use, he explained.
Following complaints from residents, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) promised August 17 to start removing homeless people from the citys hotels and get them back into shelter facilities.
However, he did not give a timeline as to when that process would begin, according to Breitbart News.
Safety was more a motivating factor for people leaving U.S. cities than the coronavirus pandemic, global investor Barry Sternlicht said Tuesday during an interview on CNBCs Squawk Box.
Theres hundreds of thousands of people looking for suburban homes, and I would say its not as driven by the Covid situation as it is safety and law and order, and that is now pervasive across the big cities of the United States, sadly, he stated.
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VA is already blue unless a miracle occurs.
That short video of folks standing in line to rent a U-Haul, they all seem to be working middle class people that are DIY movers with not a lot of goods.
No big national movers for them.
Neo-Oakies.
I cannot wait until that brilliant governor of NY begs the federal government for financial help. The president will have the ultimate last laugh.
Round n Round
What goes around comes around
I tell you whyyyy
I think the people who actually move, are conservatives
send them back.
Quarantine the infection, don’t spread it. Let them live in the poop they nade
At that risk of being a bit contrary, it is possible that some of these are also conservatives who for one reason or another never really found the impetus to relocate - until now. Maybe not a great many, but surely a few. And a few in the right place can make a difference.
Well thanks for that mention.
Husband and I moved from NY to this little rural town in lower Lehigh County Pa. in 2004. The first thing our new neighbors asked us if we were Republicans or Democrats (with dread in their eyes). LOL.
I wouldnt call that creep a good conservative. Only an arrogant liberal or a drunk would hurl dirty insults like those at a Southerner on this forum.
Something tells me alcohol was involved. The irony is that it was posted by a guy who freely discusses himself hanging out with mafia types and dating a woman from the projects. That said, I've read a bunch of his posts in the past and overall he seems like an okay guy.
Let's see, where's that ten foot pole I plan to use to not touch this conversation...
Forty years plus Keith and Mick were in the neighborhood. Curious if they're still waitin’ on a friend or Shattered by the nursing home fiasco. Regardless I'm sure they'd be heading out on Steel Wheels for somewhere with Honky Tonk
Women and Wild Horses.
I think youre very kind, and I mean it in a good way.
How many of these people are working remotely? Their lease runs out 8/31. They can live in nature and save $50k-100k.
Don’t come to Texas.
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NOOOO!!!
Stay away from NH with your crappy NYC politics.
We like freedom and no taxes here.
Hugenot?
Ditto!
I believe that this unspoken threat is what kept Mike Ditka from running for Senate in Chicago. If he had run, we would probably have been spared the Obama years.
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