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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Well I am in El Dorado Hills and I have noticed the same.
My conclusion is that BECAUSE they are Conservative, that is why they are moving out.
Housing prices are rising here.
The useful idiots in ny city deserve to suffer with their democrat government.
People who vote for democrats are your enemy.
JoMa
Virginia was flipped DEEP BLUE in a very short time.
Secure your properties and advise your local real estate offices, folks. Here comes the tyranny. They’ll regulate everything up and push your grandchildren into homelessness.
Your idea of how higher culture is fooling around with barn animals.
Don’t send me a reply redneck. You’ll get worse
Wow, Can't imagine why people don't want New Yorkers in their state, you'all seem so nice. Bless your heart!
I’m from rural Louisiana.
Cousin marrying: false stereotype
Barn dancing: never seen anyone dance in a barn
Pickup driving: better than a car that can’t haul anything
Illiterate: false. College level reader in the 5th grade and state spelling bee runner-up when I was 11
No high school diploma: self employed, so unnecessary. I do have my GED, however
Shotgun toting: actually it’s a scoped AK, which at least I am permitted to own by my state
Beer swilling: HEY! You got one!
Moonshine dinking: no thanks. I don’t drink paint thinner
Intolerant hick: is that why I married a Mexican?
Way to unfairly label the entire South, Yankee.
Why do you think that is?
These limosine liberals didn’t seem to mind that their policies were destroying the lives and families of the poor as long as they “kept their place”.
They don’t like the smell so much up close.
I sincerely hope you are right. It saddens me that Va has been hijacked by the leftist traitors. Va was perhaps the most important original colony and to see it run by the rats is just sickening.
At that risk of being a bit contrary, it is possible that some of these are also conservatives who for one reason or another never really found the impetus to relocate - until now. Maybe not a great many, but surely a few. And a few in the right place can make a difference.
Grow a thicker skin friend.
I’m a 75 year old retired U.A.W. member in ILLINOIS. who does NOT support the death penalty.
Yet, I’ve never voted for a democrat.
Go ahead, throw some bombs my way, I’ve heard them all
Give the rat credit.
HE/SHE is taking care of itself, chances are WE (indirectly) paid for the the Pizza anyhow.
Oh, great. The locusts are on the move.
Please stop that! The problem with NYC is that it is actually impossible to vote for anybody except Democrats there. Sometimes there isn’t even a GOP candidate on the ballot. Voter turn out is very low because nobody likes the fact that there are no choices, and the current pack of loonies was elected by a very tiny percentage of the people in New York.
I grew up on the Upper West Side and lived there off and on for a number of years and yes, the liberal presence is pretty overwhelming. But there are a lot of people who probably would vote GOP, even quietly, except that there’s simply no possibility in New York City. The problem is that the party has let itself be marginalized and offers nothing to give the voters the courage to get out and vote.
That is one determined rat.
I lived on the Upper West Side for 10 years. Owned property there 17 years. I’m conservative. Married in a church in the neighborhood.
And TX.
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