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with the attractiveness of NYC suffering badly until then.

problem is, the big sewer has long term problems.

the biggest is political. and given the depressing ethnic/IQ composition, the future is bleak

[Rockingham]

True enough, but New York City has overcome those kinds of problems before. I am not so much an optimist about New York as I am an optimist about Americans and America. Give us a generation or so and we manage to solve even seemingly intractable problems.