Bert I was in Manhattan last week with 4 boys under 15
Just me....in a Suburban driving all over the island that was my home in the 80s....yep crazy on both fronts and honestly it was best time in years
It was like I never left
It’s different now...safe...more gentrified and granted a bit more ethnic
But everywhere we went....people we dealt with from hotel doormen to clerks at Bergdorfs to the Manalo store to livery and cab drivers to literally wise guys I’ve known for 30 years in Bensonhurst to just total strangers we ran into
When they heard our thick Deep South accents they all perked up and would ask if we were Trump people
And we’re like damn right we are.....hell yeah and everyone is so excited to take our country back
And besides my dear friend miss marmelstein there are a number of other New Yorkers here I am fond of from the lower east side even all the way uptown
It’s not as bad as the media makes it look
Just saying
New Yorkers are just like any other Americans - some good, some bad. But for the most part they are hard-working, nose-to-the-grindstone types who love America in the same way other Americans do. That they vote in the wrong way generally perhaps should be more pitied than censured!
Perhaps it is pointless to return to this thread but I must define my point further. My post that started all this was made with out of the usual context.
New York is no longer America...... neither is Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and perhaps Maine. I have received thought both pro and con on New Jersey so it is a tossup.
Collectively they have politically ceased being America and are Neo Europa. The majority of the people favor being Europeans rather than Americans. They are doing their dead level best to insist the transformation of their states to the Euro model remains permanent.
I know it is relatively safe on the Streets of “the City” and it is much changed from the bad old days of 30 or 40 years ago. But there is safety in Paris and Munich and Milan...... Europe
BTW..... Happy Valley is up the road a piece, near Elizabethton Tennessee. I wouldn’t recommend it as a retirement site for a refugee fleeing the city, but you could do worse.
Upper East Tennessee FReepers have lunch about once a month and guests are always welcome