Where did they move? (FL?)
I moved from Brooklyn to Miami. Mostly because I had a child IMO NYC is not a good place to raise a kid.
Interesting because we moved our family from Miami to the Chicago suburbs for the same reason.
The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
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Re: The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
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I have no problem with sacrificing the elderly for the benefit of the kids. A few months of shutdown was reasonable, but shutting schools down for a couple years is too big of a price to pay. Also, my kids were in daycare the whole time outside of Mar to May 2020, and they were spreading all sorts of viruses just like they were before COVID. How the government chose to allow the most prolific spreaders to congregate…
All parents understand. I would end my life in an instant for my kids.
Would you end the life of others for your kids?
Re: The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
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> The amount of pushback these measures got, when we were literally just trying to save lives and prevent disability through long covid absolutely staggers the mind and erodes my faith in humanity. Or you could reasonably conclude that the policies enacted during COVID are yet another example of how we prioritize the elderly over children in the United States, arguably because children don't vote and the elderly do.…
It wasn't just the elderly. Pretty much anyone over 50 was at higher risk. I'll point out again, covid killed over 1 million people in the US alone. That doesn't even account for the ~ 10% of infected who got stuck with the lingering effects of long covid. Yeah, we asked kids to attend school remotely from home. Some didn't have parents that kept them on task, and suffered. The pandemic was hard on everyone, but even…
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The amount of pushback these measures got, when we were literally just trying to save lives and prevent disability through long covid absolutely staggers the mind and erodes my faith in humanity. Or you could reasonably conclude that the policies enacted during COVID are yet another example of how we prioritize the elderly over children in the United States, arguably because children don't vote and the elderly do.…
It wasn't just the elderly. Pretty much anyone over 50 was at higher risk. I'll point out again, covid killed over 1 million people in the US alone. That doesn't even account for the ~ 10% of infected who got stuck with the lingering effects of long covid. Yeah, we asked kids to attend school remotely from home. Some didn't have parents that kept them on task, and suffered. The pandemic was hard on everyone, but even…
My child's classmate has a mother who has only one lung, and that one lung is barely functional. If she catches COVID, she will certainly be in the ICU. As a class, we all worried about her mother during the entire pandemic.
Re: The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
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If you actually read the article you'll see it has nothing to do with crime. Crime remains at historically low levels: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statisti... It has everything to do with expensive housing. NYC is becoming wealthier and whiter, with low income and minority residents forced to move out over housing costs.
New York has always had expensive housing. It's not as if that became a problem yesterday. On the other hand, crime varies considerably from decade to decade. I'm getting a good chuckle watching people bend over backwards to downplay the issue of crime in NYC. It often feels like crime is to liberals what climate change is to conservatives, a big problem made worse by their policies that's better off ignored.
No it has not always had expensive housing. How do you think artists used to live in Greenwich village?
Re: The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
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>I live in NYC. The problem is that there’s literally 0 housing. That’s it. >Literally so many people want to move here, but you look on all of streeteasy on a given day and there’s like 500 apartments. In a cities of millions. I'm currently in my mid-30's. Throughout all of my 20's, I thought it would be a blast to live in NYC. Then I had a good stretch where I visited it a whole bunch of times, hanging out with fri…
I moved here about 10 years ago in my mid 20s. It's certainly more expensive and annoying to find housing here than other places I've lived, but it's more than balanced out by needing to own an automobile. The average cost of car ownership in the US is in the $10k-12k range. I certainly don't spent an extra thousand dollars on rent here vs say, any other place I might reasonably move. So I figure I'm still coming out…
One can easily buy a car for $30k that will operate for 200k miles/10 years with no problem. That is $0.15 per mile, add $0.45 per mile for insurance/fuel/maintenance/savings to buy new car.
$0.60 per mile is $6k per year at 10k miles per year, which is a decent amount of driving. $9k per year at 15k miles per year.
However, you can usually get more than 200k miles/10 years out of a car, so those costs above are very high end costs. Unless you opt for luxuries, I think annual car spend can easily be brought down to $6k, or $500 per month. Even less if you opt for liability only insurance, and live in a place that does not require you to drive 10k miles per year.
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I mean if you want police to get public support perhaps it would make sense to change the rules so that any racist highschool graduate with a superiority complex could not do 3 months of training and become a police officer. In Europe that would be unheard of. In Estonia you have to do 3 years in a university studying policing specialty, and then pass a psych evaluation.
Re: The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
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> It’s still great. I’ve been to NYC many times and have friends in their late 30s that live there. The ones that live there say the same (“it’s great”) but never elaborate. From the outside, it honestly looks like a dirty, difficult, chaotic city. Many restaurants, but all seem to be copy+paste coffee shop, Italian, etc or very low quality cafe/deli. Coming from the Midwest, it feels very old, dirty and poor yet som…
> Coming from the Midwest, it feels very old, dirty and poor yet somehow expensive and desirable. What am I missing? A counterpoint. I don't live in NYC but do live in a similar major "coastal elite" type city. When I visit the downtown areas of cities in the Midwest I'm always flabbergasted at how bad they are. Car culture reigns supreme, there's sprawl, while there's usually some portion of the inner downtown core…
Living a carless life is amazing. It gets hard if you're starting a family though, depending on what lifestyle you want to live.
Re: The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
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Only around 0.4% of the city's population died of COVID, as of March 2023.
That's crazy high isn't it? That's 1 out of 250 people!
Sources like [1] put New York at 379 in 100,000 people, or 0.379% making it the 15th worst hit US state.
Bear in mind that even if everyone in the country lived to 100 then died of old age, you'd still have a 1% of people dying every year.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm