Posted on 08/30/2020 3:18:49 PM PDT by blam
A string of moving trucks was spotted in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday, according to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.
“The mass evacuation of Upper West Siders from NYC is in full effect,” he told the New York Post.
Sliwa blamed the city’s decision to house hundreds of homeless people in the neighborhood’s hotels for the exodus.
“The moment I walked out on my block, near Central Park West, there was a moving truck. I asked where you going, and they said, ‘Virginia.’ They told me, ‘Curtis, first the pandemic hit us and now the quality of life is so bad,'” he recalled.
Sliwa spoke to others moving to places such as New Hampshire and Tennessee, and one young family told him they were headed to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
“They said in the last month, there have been so many disturbed people in the streets, aggressively panhandling, defecating, urinating — they leave the hotels and have no bathrooms to use,” he explained.
Following complaints from residents, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) promised August 17 to start removing homeless people from the city’s hotels and get them back into shelter facilities.
However, he did not give a timeline as to when that process would begin, according to Breitbart News.
Safety was more a motivating factor for people leaving U.S. cities than the coronavirus pandemic, global investor Barry Sternlicht said Tuesday during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
“There’s hundreds of thousands of people looking for suburban homes, and I would say it’s not as driven by the Covid situation as it is safety and law and order, and that is now pervasive across the big cities of the United States, sadly,” he stated.
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Stay out of southern UT, you LIB/leftist nitwits. We don’t cotton to that kind of uncivilized behavior here in UT’s Dxie.
“Which disease? Covid? Or socialism?”
Liberalism, socialism and communism.
They don't stop being rats once they flee the sinking ship.
City people disease.
Aha. State of Jefferson. We came up to butte county from the Bay Area 25 years ago.
Escaping from New York without the Duke?
Oh come on. You know he doesn’t mean good conservative types such as you from New York. He means New York liberals.
Go on and stay where you are cleaning up the collective mess y’all made for yourselves. We don’t need or want you in GA or NC.
What? No slams about their tooth?
move where you want as long as it’s not my state. We don’t need more toxic NY ideology here.
The cancer spreads
Soros and Steyer will likely buy it all on the cheap.
No one from the upper West Side will be conservative.
we are nothing but a bunch of freaks and fairies up here right?
And even with that we were still able to beat the ****!!! out of you in the civil war :-). What does that say about you?
About a third of a plethora.
Virginia is not lost and I think you will be surprised in November when Trump gets Virginia. But with these carpetbaggers coming it might be nail in the coffin.
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