Four tales of city dwellers who fled New York

NY Daily News ^ | September 16th 2007 | KIRSTEN DANIS

[mewzilla]

On a related note, from last December...

People Abandoning New York State, New Data Indicates

And, more recently....

Failing grade for Chemung National economic study gives F to 31 New York counties.

Note to the nation: Keep voting for 'Rats and RINOs and all this, too, can by yours...

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Have him comitted.

[Ditter]

My last visit to NYC was more than 20 years ago, I can still hear the constant honking of the car horns. Our hotel room must not have been very high up because I went to sleep at night to the sounds of car horns and woke up to them the next morning. Do NYers still do that?

[Cacique]

ping

[Hot Tabasco]

I am Catholic - no divorce.

I was just kidding . Don't know what to tell you other than you have major problems considering he is also a Clinton fan..........

[Melas]

There probably isn’t anything you can do. My wife convinced me to move to the country in 1994. I somehow lasted almost 10 years before I told her we had to move back to civilization for my sanity. Country life, or even small town life isn’t for everyone.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

I’m working on it! ;-)

[Rome2000]

You gotta understand that people who are born and raised in the city who have never traveled outside the city have no idea what a cesspool they live in.

When I was growing up we were told everybody outside NYC were hicks and rednecks, there were no jobs except low paying ones anywhere ouside NYC and that we were tougher and better than anyopne else because we lived in the "Big Apple" and "if we could make it there we could make it anywhere"

I escaped 15 years ago at the age of 29 and only wish I left 20 years sooner.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

NYC... A great place to visit, but you have to be rich or insane to want to live there. Often, the two are combined. Of course, those born and raised in NYC believe it is the center of the Western World, er... center of the known Universe, actually.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Sitting on a tour bus in NYC, an ambulance came up behind us in gridlock. The ambulance squeezed by eventually but it must have missed 4 light cycles before getting through the street light to the next block of gridlock. By then, it had long since turned off it’s siren and was just flashing it’s lights. The street was packed and there was simply nowhere for it to go.

I sat watching that Ambulance locked in traffic and thought, “buddy, you are going to die.” LOL!

[lowbridge]

Of course, those born and raised in NYC believe it is the center of the Western World, er... center of the known Universe, actually.

You say that like it isn't true. ;-)

lowbridge (Born in Brooklyn, NY. Or, as Ed Norton of The Honeymooners puts it: "I live in the garden spot of the world: Brooklyn, USA!")

[Kozak]

The author must be a graduate of the NY public schools....

[Ditter]

We have streets blocked with traffic sitting at lights here in Houston but the Ambulance will just go down the wrong side of the street, against the traffic, making the on coming traffic move over and stop. When they get to the intersection, all the traffic will be stopped in all 4 directions they just switch back over to the proper side of the street. It takes a little more time than zipping along past all the cars but it is better than what you witnessed. I can’t believe NY doesn’t do that.

[Ditter]

I will certainly agree with you on country living. We lived in the country for 16 years. We were outside of a small town, about 50 miles from Houston where we were born and had always lived. It was terrible, I hated every minute of it. When we finally moved back to Houston in 1979, I felt like I had been awakened from a long sleep. Houston is a much more pleasant place to live than NYC and has all the amenities you could want plus you have PRIVACY, something you will never have in a small town. gossip gossip gossip gossip I will never ever live in a small town again.

[skr]

I’m not a fan of city-living, but after checking into Nashville activities on the web, it’s hard to believe that the Bogens couldn’t find anything better to do than to watch TV.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

You may not understand traffic in NYC. There are times when there are no open lanes anywhere, in any direction. The lanes in all 4 directions are completely clogged with traffic and even the intersection is clogged. It is gridlocked. Trying to get anybody to move out of anybody else’s way becomes difficult because nobody can move to create an opening for anybody else to move into.

And ambulances just sit there and wait like everybody else because their is nowhere for anybody to move out of their way.

Welcome to the Insanity if NYC. A great place to visit but hell on earth if you had to live there. You almost couldn’t pay me enough. I say “almost” because, obviously, if you paid me enough, I would have a limo, chauffeur and helicopter pad, etc... and living life on my own schedule. Otherwise, you can flush the whole city. It’s a mess.

GREAT, GREAT fun to visit, though. I have to confess, half the fun is watching what a circus and zoo the place is.

[Ditter]

Yes I have seen NYC several times...... and that was enough. LOL!

Houston has Life Flight helicopters, surely NY has those.

[Clemenza]

What the Daily News is NOT telling you is that a slight majority of those leaving are black or hispanic, different from the waves of “flight” in the past.

[Melas]

You said it better than I ever could have. It was exactly like I awoke from a long sleep. I guess some people love it, but it wasn’t for. Even the people were something else. I never even began to fit in.

[firebrand]

Couldn’t wait to get here and I never want to leave. I LOVE the sound of honking car horns.