NYC is DONE
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- shellie9
I hope LA is done. Go on... get out of here.
As someone who's from LA, I can do without all the dreamers pushing beachfront property so high the average person can't live there anymore. I was raised by the beach by a totally normal middle-class family. The beach was my back yard and my summertime baby sitter. Come home when the lights come on.
Not even asking for a lot of frills -- but It's a shame that giving that kind of life to a family requires a single or dual income of 500k or more a year to own something, 250k or more to rent and have a separate bedroom for 1 child (or 2 if they share), maybe a home office, a good range of kid activities (sports, dance, tutors, summer camps), possibly private school for pre-school at least, K-12 maybe, savings if the world blows up, a retirement plan so you don't have to work until your 75, and one 5 day family vacation a year. My mother raised me on between 65-80k by the beach in a single-family home, as a single mother, worked the system to get me into the magnet arts schools for free as well as keep me in gymnastics. That is impossible now.
- It really sucks. Problem is worldwide. Real estate just isn't something for the middle class anymore.inteliboy
- Waaaay more people with money, much less beach to go around.nb
- "It's a big club and you ain't in it"Maaku
- Good old timesi_was
- hear hearPonyBoy
- Try London. Same problem but fucking shite weather, terrorist attacks and Boris.shapesalad
- Oh and no beach. Just the muddy river Thames.shapesalad
- Beach life is where its at, that's how I'm raising my daughter now, fuck the states, so many other choices out there, US is just a ghetto.moldero
- what does the world look like when middle class families can't afford children or the enrichment it takes to replicate what their parents provided?shellie
- Who you telling. My rent is 2k and that’s a bargain for a two bedroom decently nice spot. Been saving for a spot and shits slipping out of reach slowly.ArmandoEstrada
- Friend just moved to a new place for 4K month and I’m tripping, for that leave and make life elsewhere.ArmandoEstrada
- PhanLo6
- yeah new york looks like it used to be fun.ben_
- spent a lot of time skateboarding there in the 90's and it's changed so much.ben_
- Do you ever wish you could go back in time to different places and experience them, like a time tourist? I'd love to wander around 70's NY – The Warriors vibesBaskerviIle
- Nope, never.
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Always.
I'd love to visit 1905s metropolises - LDN, NY, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Calcutta, Constant...just, everyfuckingwhereNairn - ...Berlin! And then do the same but 1925, then 1880, then.. Jesus.
The reason we don't have time travel is bound to our not yet being immortal.Nairn - I want to see my hometown across all of its ages, from before the Neanderthals had caves there. Timetravel would be the ultimate timesuck.Nairn
- @Nairn there is a scene in the movie Lucy in which you see a timelapse since the ancient Lucy to current Times Square...grafician
- Last pic, Brazil Terry Guilliami_was
- Amazing photos.. Where they from? Is there any more?dee-dubs
- I'd love to go back to the early 80's new york, birth of hiphop, handball court graffiti, downtown scene, paint a subway car.PhanLo
- Last time I was there I got to see Pete Rock DJ in a tiny bar, which was cool. Folk were dancing like crazy, but we'd not long arrived and had to leave earlyPhanLo
- as we were jetlaggedPhanLo
- Some more flicks
https://www.bjp-onli…PhanLo - @ Dee-Dubs I got them here, there's a few more too https://allthatsinte…PhanLo
- Poor dogs and all those kids making fun of them, who is the animal ?i_was
- nb3
DOJ declares NYC designated anarchist zone!?!
Serious laughs on this one. NYC is super quiet, current protests are sparse and small. Anyone fro nyc knows there is LESS protesting happening right now than even pre-covid times.
Remember the first BLM marches? The almost weekly protests of all types throughout every summer? Remember Occupy Wall ST?!? That was much bigger than even the height of this year’s protests.
Lololol designated anarchist zone is hilarious sounding to begin with, but also it’s not even crazy in nyc right now.
Trump and all his people and Fox are so full of shit about everything. And his followers eat it up because they’re too stupid to think for themselves.
- agreed ... it's incredibly quiet and reserved at the moment and has been for monthsmonospaced
- #ImpeachBarrRamanisky2
- you gotta keep the fox news audience scared shitless - what better way to scare them than using the DOJdorf
- Dont agree on usage of justice dept. But will say nyc politicians and media fanned flames and they don't deserve a bailoutdeathboy
- I also think its a win in finally looking at wasted fed funds. For once some thriftdeathboy
- Shut up deathboy. You’re an idiotnb
- seriouslymonospaced
- https://memegenerato…bogue
- More scare tacticsFNP14
- zarkonite2
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/…
Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’
(It’s not.)By Jerry Seinfeld
Mr. Seinfeld is a comedian.
- AQUTE2
(NYC IS DEAD)x x
~- I wonder if he's of any relation to Woody AllenMondoMorphic
- nb3
Next Year’s Covid?
- nb0
Right, the article and study mentioned that people are leaving Manhattan and SF, but otherwise cities are stable. The spike in sales is attributed to a rebound after the market was sort of “frozen” in the early months of covid.
I will admit the study focuses on sales and not rentals, so there is some uncertainty or at least obscurity.
It also “feels” to me like people are leaving but... on my street in Brooklyn, only two families are moving this summer: one is moving within Brooklyn and the other to LA. No one my street has left. My neighbor owns a handful of walk up apartment buildings in Brooklyn.
I want to ask him how it’s “really” going but it’s a little personal and I don’t want to be rude.
- The only other family on my street to move was right at the start of covid, and they moved within Brooklyn too. No one on my street left.nb
- Anecdotal, sure, but so is your story so I just wanted to counter.nb
- You’re talking to me? My anecdote is about manhattan not Brooklyn. In Manhattan the exodus is real. My new neighborhood is mostly transplants.monospaced
- MAJOR bidding wars on any house under a million here now. 100% covid related frenzy and it is statistically significant.monospaced
- Real estate agents in the area here are going nuts. This is big and it is real. Not being rude but the rush to the burbs is very much a thing.monospaced
- Yes, but it’s a short term boom. Two factors: no one bought for a couple months and people who planned to move “in the next few years” have pulled the trigger.nb
- monospaced0
We left Manhattan and moved to the 'burbs in June. At that time there were over a dozen apartments vacant in our building, which is absolutely unheard of. This is normal, and it took almost 3 months to get a renter for our apartment, when usually it would take a couple of days. No, it's not an exaggeration, people are leaving Manhattan in droves. Thing to note is, it's the people that still have good jobs doing it. People with jobs and the luxury of flexible work arrangements and work from home options.
- That's what the video suggested; the majority of tax revenue coming from the well-employed population that's leaving.MondoMorphic
- ^ this. 100%Gnash
- NBQ000
- What's hard to understand is the disconnect between the political/economic policies and their (inevitable) outcome.MondoMorphic
- That was an 8 min long election year political commercial.toemaas
- From the Escaping CA video, "somehow we've made it untenable for people to run business here." "SOMEHOW," like it's a mystery.MondoMorphic
- toemaas, data is data. The data may implicate the policies of a particular party/philosophy, but it is what it is.MondoMorphic
- I just say that based on the fact that a loooong time ago, I used to make these turd videos. I can smell them from a mile away.toemaas
- For sure, there's a clear agenda/point/thesisMondoMorphic
- drgs0
Where to are they moving?
- teh1
- sarahfailin0
It's the lesser-heralded cities where the action is happening- where you can still find walkable, urban areas at affordable prices. I have been living in Sacramento for nigh on 8 years now and I've watched it transform.
People are fleeing LA and SF to come here. No doubt people are leaving NYC and moving to Cleveland as well.
Rents in the SF Bay Area actually went down 9% in the last year https://www.sfchronicle.com/busi….
- Having lived in both SF and NYC for a decade each I can say that SF is just awful pathetic shit in comparison.monospaced
- Haha u needed a decade to see both as shit. Someone is a bit slowdeathboy
- you’re an idiot.monospaced
- But would that make udeathboy
- Successful and experienced.monospaced
- PhanLo0
Having met loads of NY graffiti writers that grew up that era, modern NY sounds like a breeze. Folk forget how easy they have it.
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Some more here:
http://internationalphotomag.com…- That second one could be easily be in Glasgow in the 70's too.PhanLo
- Apart from the crazy rent, maybe the exodus of people will make the rents a bit less ludicrous in NY.PhanLo
- Rents have gone down a little but not that much. Hopefully, this will purge the city of a lot of people who belong somewhere else.CyBrainX
- That fourth one is very close to where I live. It's on Delancey St. on the north side of the WIlliamsburg bridge entrance...CyBrainX
- ...I was reading in a Lower East Side Facebook group how that record store had a great Caribbean and Latin selection of music.CyBrainX
- Ramanisky20
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jac…
DOJ declares NYC, Portland and Seattle 'anarchist jurisdictions'
- nb0
https://www.curbed.com/2020/8/31…
I know a few people who have moved upstate, but no more than usual. I don’t trust the local tv news to report accurately on these kinds of things. They tend to cherry pick statistics to make the most alarming story possible.