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It has started: Lefty prof says fleeing New Yorkers not a problem because immigrants will replace them
American Thinker ^ | 08/24/2020 | Monica Showalter

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: immigration; jamesalschuler; newyork; newyorkcity; professor
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Here's the view of a leftist professor, explaining why human and capital flight is no problemo in New York City, according to Axios:


1 posted on 08/24/2020 7:47:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And when they run out of other people”s money, NYC becomes Beirut


2 posted on 08/24/2020 7:50:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: SeekAndFind

How does replacing productive and wealthy folks with those that require government welfare and services...

Make this work out...

Exactly?


3 posted on 08/24/2020 7:51:02 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: SeekAndFind

It seems to me that it’s quite accurate to observe that new people, including people with money from all parts of the world, will be moving into New York. For example, South America is imploding again.

Housing prices in New York have been falling for a few months, but the cycle will turn as it always does.


4 posted on 08/24/2020 7:51:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What we can see of God's canvas is laughably small." ~Bp. Barron)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure, millionaires leaving, immigrants will replace their bodies but not their incomes. Good luck with that one.


5 posted on 08/24/2020 7:51:53 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell w ill surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We don’t need more people in NJ.. We already have too many.. Especially Leftists!!


6 posted on 08/24/2020 7:51:55 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: SeekAndFind

The illegal aliens will bring vast wealth to NYC by taking in each other’s laundry!


7 posted on 08/24/2020 7:52:09 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dumb asses about to get a lesson on the differences in people.


8 posted on 08/24/2020 7:53:13 AM PDT by riri
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To: 2banana

Eventually they just tax the place that people with money left too.


9 posted on 08/24/2020 7:53:45 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

I just hope that these people moving out didn’t fill out the census before they left, otherwise NYC gets to count them.


10 posted on 08/24/2020 7:54:21 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

People were leaving Portland before the riots because it was a shithole. Now more are leaving because it’s become a war zone.


11 posted on 08/24/2020 7:55:55 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: SeekAndFind
Coming to New York soon.


12 posted on 08/24/2020 7:57:04 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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13 posted on 08/24/2020 7:57:28 AM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: doc maverick

RE: People were leaving Portland before the riots because it was a shithole.

Sad, real sad. Portland used to be called the City of Roses and Californians who wanted to flee their state moved to Oregon in large numbers from the late 90’s on, Portland being their main destination.

Well, it looks like these migrants from the south took their politics with them. You can rest assured that this same phenomenon will occur in Red States elsewhere


14 posted on 08/24/2020 7:58:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The people coming in will demand more social services while the tax base will shrink. Good luck with that. Of course, they will continue to elect Leftist/Marxist politicians by default. Which is kind of the point.


15 posted on 08/24/2020 7:59:12 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: SeekAndFind

Perfect storm. The COVID-19 pandemic forced people to work and shop from home using the new technologies. Many companies found that they could not only function but prospered. They have concluded that they really don’t need a large central location. That is bad news for commercial real estate and the resteraunts and retail stores that depended on the people congregating daily in central locations. Retailers have lost business for years to the big internet warehouse marketers. Combine all that with the perverse lawlessness, horrible public schools and high taxes associated with Democrat/marxist rule. People legitimately do not feel safe or their future secure in cities. The economic rational for big urban areas is ending.


16 posted on 08/24/2020 7:59:47 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind
My grandparents landed in NYC late in 1927 with their three young kids. They lived in the Bronx and worked their tails off. Less than five years later, in the middle of the depression, they moved to a rural hamlet in Westchester County and built a home.

People fleeing NYC is nothing new.

17 posted on 08/24/2020 8:00:03 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: SeekAndFind

They can follow the California model. Take advantage of every dime of Federal assistance for “immigrants”. Without it, California would be in deep water.


18 posted on 08/24/2020 8:00:04 AM PDT by robel
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To: SeekAndFind

Good news for landlords. Although a new immigrant cannot typically afford $3,000 per month for a studio apartment, if you divide it 12 ways equally that is only $250 per month per person. So you move 12 immigrants into the studio apartment and voila! The landlord does not need to drop the rent!


19 posted on 08/24/2020 8:00:29 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind
It's more like 20, 30, 40" to New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island

Then it changes nothing. NJ and CT and LI are not far behind NYC in their insanity. It will turn Suffolk County blue though. :/

20 posted on 08/24/2020 8:00:54 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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