Posted on 08/24/2020 7:47:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Blue cities have become socialist hellholes, and not surprisingly, people are fleeing.
High taxes, extended lockdowns, massive crime, and rioting and looting have all driven taxpayers from Portland to New York to pack up and leave their cities, heading to friendlier red climes where rule of law is a thing, taxes are low, businesses are easy to start, and public officials show common sense on COVID risks. According to the New York Post:
FlatRate Movers said the 100 moves a day it does in the city are very different from previous years.
"We used to move a lot of people from Brooklyn to Manhattan or Queens," said David Giampietro, the company's chief administrative officer. "Now it's the mileage. We're not going 5 miles anymore. It's more like 20, 30, 40" to New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island and upstate.
More than 16,000 New Yorkers changed their address to Connecticut from March through June, the Hartford Courant reported.
United Van Lines and Mayflower movers said it had done 1,000 out-of-state moves from New York City starting in March, with 28 percent to Florida and California, and 16 percent to Texas and North Carolina.
Writer James Alschuler notes that it's gotten very bad in New York, indeed — so bad that he forecasts that the city won't be recover. His must-read piece is here.
It ought to be a point of embarrassment for these blue leftist ruling claques that people are fleeing. People flee the chaos of systemic socialism wherever it is found, sometimes on leaky rafts, sometimes by barreling over walls, and sometimes by UHaul, and all these elites can think is, they're in good company. Like shortages, people voting with their feet is found wherever socialism is found.
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Well, on the bright side, once the ‘big bucks’ pull out the city will be able to transform all the fancy hotels (I guess a lot of them are now bedbug lice infested hellholes with the guests tending to drop trou and do ‘business’ wherever they want) and turn them back into flop houses which will give cheap rents to all.
They could call it the UNurban Renewal plan and -except for demolition of ‘obvious’ real FLEA BAG hotels, there won’t be a lot of expense building new buildings.
Better pray that the requests for ‘rebuilding/renewal’ that was caused by poor leadership are turned aside.
Then again, it took DC many years to rebuild the 7th St corridor after the 68 ‘(mostly) peaceful demonstrations’ which left the area looking like a bombed out zone and neglected.
My ‘favorite’ comparison question is
Which is worse..
An atomic attack on Japanese cities some 70 years ago (which was purportedly going to end civilization)
OR
50 years or so of DEMOCRAT/LIBERAL rule in the nations cities.
Check out pics of Nagasaki or Hiroshima then and now
THEN
Check out pics of Det and other inner cities then and now.
CASE CLOSED!!!
Didn’t matter. West Germans were not allowed in East Berlin anyway.
Professor Hacker apparently is visualizing streams of stockbrokers, venture capitalists, brain surgeons, physicists, and engineers crossing the lone prairie to inhabit his city. A quick visit to downtown LA will disabuse him of that notion and show him what he'll really be getting. It ain't pretty.
Yards in NYC will be super immaculate
Look up the ‘Curley Effect’.
Ah. So this prof sees wisdom in the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe model of induced white flight. I think I am going to prescribe for him a repeat of history 101. Doubt he’ll take the medicine though.
Housing prices in New York have been falling for a few months, but the cycle will turn as it always does.
I’m not feeling it. Wealthy foreigners want to leave a socialist dystopia to go to another socialist dystopia exactly why?What we’re seeing is a cycle of self-destruction of a socialist dystopia. We had another one during the Mayoralty of David Dinkins. The cause of this one is more precipitous than that one, and it’s causing a lot of readjustment in response. The internet is enabling those adjustments, and people who don’t have to live in NYC don’t even have to live in commuting distance of NYC.
It’s not a lack of people, it’s a loss of the economic viability which sustains a population.
Democrats talk of being “woke,” but the cultural impact of this dystopian government of NY (city and state) will reverberate for a long time.
I love that socialists always leave out the ‘illegal’ part. Perhaps he could elucidate on how ignorant, unskilled, non English speaking invaders will fill the void of tax contributing residents who have fled the city? Who will fill the void of skilled office workers, executives, renters of expensive properties? How will Wilhelm continue to fund his wife’s playing when there are no more taxes to misappropriate?
Not without jobs.
Not a lot of immigrants go to longtime static places like Portland OR.
Metropolis had thinkers and doers.
The modern problem is not either of those.
It is the unemployable, the cannot-think and the cannot-do.
The useless mouths.
No early 20th century dystopic writer anticipated that.
Who wouldn’t have lost a war against the US, UK, and USSR among others?
Compared to Buenos Aires or Caracas, New York is in fine shape.
You might be right, but if I believed in gambling, I would bet on the worlds’ rich people’s deciding they’ll keep NYC in play.
How does that rent control thing work in NYC? If someone moves out, is that a green light for landlords to charge new tenants whatever they want?
Poor lefty, bodies make replace bodies moving out, but will the skills lost be replaced by those moving in?
Good luck with that.
Don’t forget the French!
“Don’t forget the French!”
Yes, the underground as well as the same in
other countries like Poland, Czech., Holland etc.
Here’s the problem in trying to replace makers with takers: states can’t print money.
No, I meant that we let the French pretend like they were a full partner of the winning coalition of powers that defeated the Axis. They got occupation zones in Germany, Berlin, Austria, and Vienna.
The movie The Third Man is an interesting view of Vienna after the war. Jeeps with soldiers from each occupying nation, USSR, USA, UK, and France, running around.
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