Posted on 07/26/2017 9:06:34 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Winter is coming for the North.
Last year, three states in the Northeast New Jersey, New York and Connecticut landed in the top five places people were moving out of fastest, according to 2017 data from United Van Lines. (The other two states on the list were Illinois and Kansas.) And data from Pew Charitable Trusts found that while people are all about moving to the South (their population grew by nearly 1.4 million people from 2014 to 2015) and the West (866,000 more people,) the population growth in the Northeast is sluggish.
The Northeastern exodus is particularly acute in many big cities like New York City. Since 2010, more than 1 million people have moved from the New York area which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island to other parts of the country.
So why are so many northerners packing their bags? The insanely high cost
Data released on Wednesday by personal finance site GoBankingRates.com reveals that the No. 1 financial fear of people who live in the Northeast is that they will have to live in debt forever; the Northeast is the only region of the country that ranked this as No. 1. (The other regions put retirement as their No. 1.)
And no wonder theyre worried. The cost of living across the region is among the highest in the nation and three of the five most expensive states or districts in the country (New York, Washington DC, Massachusetts) are in the area. (The other two states are Hawaii and California.) Having to spend so much just to get by can make getting out of debt seem much harder. And housing costs and taxes in many of these states are also sky high.
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That is a darn shame. I was shocked the last time I visted Brooklyn. There were Chinese woman going up and down the streets in the Terrace, pushing shopping carts and going thru everyone’s garbage. They were filling the carts with aluminum cans! Who do they work for? It was like a scene from a third world country.
When your tax base moves away(or isn’t reproduced because of a plunging birth rates} two things happen; a higher more sustained pressure on the welfare state and more taxes on those who stay.
I am well aware of the pension sinkholes that our cities are becoming but it’s the plummitting birth rates that I view with concern. We have legal abortion and large groups of women libbers. Or is it the new phenomenon of beta males? What gives?
That is true for a great many although it defies logic.
They escape the clutches of the leftist tyrants and then try to convert their new communities into replicas of the dysfunctional places they left behind.
Look what they have done to parts of North Carolina and Florida!
"That's not the way we do it back in New _______."
"Why don't you backward people have a government supported philharmonic orchestra?"
"You should have better public transportation and higher welfare payments."
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Beta males are a byproduct.
Yes, forgot to mention the Sweeney Todd BBQ chain has stores in every city.
Lucky to live in a state with less people that is Republican. I’ll take KC.
Ah yes, the grandmother bottle collecting cartel. It seems ancient illegal grandma feels, either from her Chicom indoctrination or from family demands, that she must contribute to the family coffers & earn her keep. Since she speaks no English & has no American market skills, she can steal bottles & cans from peoples' recycling bins or, as you frequently see, she hawks pirated DVDs in parking lots, often right next to a Redbox kiosk! While raiding bins for bottles, they scatter trash all over the lawn & very likely add anything not tied down to their collection. While selling DVDs, they are breaking the law, driving up prices for the rest of us, & making the area look like a slum.
It's not "comfort". I need the accouterments of my religion in my area. I have to have synagogues I can walk to, because you are not allowed to drive on the Sabbath or holidays. I need kosher grocery stores, Jewish bookstores, etc. It's nice to have stores which specialize in modest clothing in the neighborhood, too. I could not lead an observant Jewish lifestyle somewhere in the boonies in a town consisting of two roads which cross one another.
Why should we be forced from our neighborhood, where we've lived for years, to make way for a bunch of illegal Chinese GARBAGE? It's now a constant drumbeat of worry to me, how long will this remain a Jewish neighborhood (of which there are very few) and what can I do if it ceases to exist? I certainly would be miserable in a sea of unassimilated Chinese, speaking a language I don't understand and practicing customs such as I described in my first post which I and most other people I know find loathsome.
Even the conservatives are obnoxious when it comes to other facets of life. If you move to the south, don’t demand the bartender switch the TV from the race to a Red Sox game. It’s simple really. If they (those who wish to flee the northeast madhouse) want to come south, then come on. Just leave the northeast behind.... All of it. And stop honking your horn. If you’re not there in time, maybe you’ll learn the next day to leave a few minutes earlier. :-)
Both are hellholes
Windham and Litchfield Counties voted Trump (Windham has the town of Mansfield (home of UConn), and Windham (home of ECSU), but the small towns voted Trump. Litchfield has Winsted (Ralph Nader’s hometown) but the small towns mostly went Trump...New London and Middlesex almost went Trump...
Are you in Ellington? I think the local elections in CT will surprise people...(Connecticut is not as liberal as some blue States...)
If you get away from the area around the coast from Kittery to Portland the ‘woods’ of Maine is Republican.
Kittery to Brunswick.
This is what happens in big cities. Neighborhoods turn over. Whether it's Chinese or other nationalities. I grew up in the Newtown section of Elmhurst...solid German and Irish with a sprinkling of Italians. It's not like that anymore. Spent 30 years in Woodside, but that changed too.
I could not lead an observant Jewish lifestyle somewhere in the boonies in a town consisting of two roads which cross one another.
You definitly couldn't with that attitude, but the neighborhood you remember is gone and it's not coming back. Perhaps if you talk with others who have contacts outside you'll find someplace that will suit your needs. People left the lower East side, Harlem, even now they're leaving Brooklyn. These folks didn't just evaporate. Maybe New City or places in the surround will meet your needs. Whatever neighborhood you live in has already become an island....and it will continue to shrink.
Good Luck
Duh...it's not "attitude", it's just FACT. I have to be able to walk to my synagogue. A little bitty town in the boonies is likely NOT to have a synagogue that I could walk to. Nor would it have a sufficient quantity of fellow observant Jews to conduct many of the prayers and rituals. Would not be a place I could live and practice Judaism. Therefore, would not be a viable place for me to live.
I am seeing way too many out-of-state tags around here. It’s getting crazy Pennsylvania Ohio New York Massachusetts and they Will vote their same crap into place that turn Massachusetts from the center of the American Revolution in to center of American communism I wish they would just go home.
Yes Madam, it is. Once again, this old shabbos goy wishes you "Good Luck."
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