It has started: Lefty prof says fleeing New Yorkers not a problem because immigrants will replace them

American Thinker ^ | 08/24/2020 | Monica Showalter

[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. 

[minnesota_bound]

Jerry Seinfeld Defends De Blasio’s New York, Slamming Writer Who Declared ‘NYC Is Dead Forever’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/08/24/jerry-seinfeld-defends-de-blasios-new-york-slamming-writer-who-declared-nyc-is-dead-forever/

[timestax]

What say YOU Larry ???

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

would bet on the worlds’ rich people’s deciding they’ll keep NYC in play.

Who do you suppose will lead the charge - Carlos Slim?

Will they keep the deBlasios of the world in charge, on the theory that they will be eaten last???

[Tax-chick]

I don’t know. I just think that’s how it’s likely to work out.

[Bonemaker]

“The movie The Third Man is an interesting view of Vienna after the war.”

Yes it was and the theme is haunting. I like “Funeral in Berlin”...it captures the zeitgeist. I know...I was stationed there when movie was made.