NYC is Dead Forever

TPD

TPD

the poor dad
I have know desire to visit NYC again. Did once about 8 years ago and that is enough for this family! Same for Seattle, Portland, San Francisco.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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* Ive seen several single parents with a child asking for money for food. And then, when someone gave them food, tossed the food right back at them.
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This has been the case forever. They want the money, not the food. But the point is taken.

Very sobering. Very discouraging. It will come back, as will other cities, but it will be years away and will not be the same by any means. It also made me realize there could be a demise of the traditional NY pizza and bagel. Once those places shut down, the process, recipies, brain trust, etc.... will all disappear.

:ohwell: I'm sad now.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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TPD said:
I have know desire to visit NYC again. Did once about 8 years ago and that is enough for this family! Same for Seattle, Portland, San Francisco.
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I liked going into "the city" as we called it, a couple of times a year. Seeing it at Christmas, window displays, people enjoying themselves at Rockefeller Center, the Christmas show at Radio City... Also at Thanksgiving. We'd go in the evening before and walk around near the Museum of Natural History and watch the Macy Day ballons being inflated.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Here is my response to him:

Did you vote for Di Blasio? Cuomo? If so then you shouldn't be allowed to vote like sh^t, then leave the mess you made to go screw up someplace else. This is what happened to Austin, which used to be a lovely hipster city until all the Californians got tired of the cities they screwed up and came to screw up Austin.

You seem like a nice person and I genuinely wish you well, but you need to have learned your lesson and not go foist your poor social ideology on well run cities that don't want your "progress" because they see what that did to places like, well, NYC.

If you didn't vote for those aholes, I apologize for ASSuming and good luck in your new home.

Let the flaming begin, but I won't care because I said what I said.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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Just saw an interesting report on ABC. The 'silver lining' of a downturn in a major city like this is that rent for businesses go does to the point where new businesses and entrepreneurs can now afford to rent and created new and innovative startups. She mentioned a number of businesses that were created out of past recessions, but the only one I remember is NetFlix.
 
Kyle

Kyle

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Sneakers said:
Just saw an interesting report on ABC. The 'silver lining' of a downturn in a major city like this is that rent for businesses go does to the point where new businesses and entrepreneurs can now afford to rent and created new and innovative startups. She mentioned a number of businesses that were created out of past recessions, but the only one I remember is NetFlix.
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Furniture Moving is a booming business for NYC.
 
Grumpy

Grumpy

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The biggest issue in the biz section of the original post. The broadband effect is gonna be a bigger issue than most people realize. Sure, new businesses will move in, but a TON of the large corporations are going to downsize to probably 10-20% of their former footprint. With all the commericial office space in NYC, it's gonna kill commercial real estate companies. I know with the company I work for, they are cutting their main office space from 34 floors in a high rise to 10 floors, and its not because they are downsizing, they are taking advantage of the workforce being able to work from home. I am 99% sure that I will not be going back into the office, and if I do, it will be to a cube farm set aside for temporary use.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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Grumpy said:
The biggest issue in the biz section of the original post. The broadband effect is gonna be a bigger issue than most people realize. Sure, new businesses will move in, but a TON of the large corporations are going to downsize to probably 10-20% of their former footprint. With all the commericial office space in NYC, it's gonna kill commercial real estate companies. I know with the company I work for, they are cutting their main office space from 34 floors in a high rise to 10 floors, and its not because they are downsizing, they are taking advantage of the workforce being able to work from home. I am 99% sure that I will not be going back into the office, and if I do, it will be to a cube farm set aside for temporary use.
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Absolutely agree. The concept of not having to work out of an office never gained momentum until it was forced upon everyone, and lo and behold, it was good. Huge paradigm change.
 
gemma_rae

gemma_rae

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Here's a dirty little secret, all of NYC's problems have two legs. Some are hosts that created the situation, others are parasites that thrive in that situation, and when the hosts are gone the parasites will follow them or expire.

As far as broadband, wireless 5G is on the horizon, and the radiation levels of the future may be what ushers in the Zombie apocalypse and we'll all flock back to NYC, or a shopping mall, to find safety in numbers.

I saw the movie!🧟‍♀️
P.S. The meteor might get us first.🧟‍♂️
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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I couldn't find my tin foil hat guy, so ...
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B

BernieP

Resident PIA
gemma_rae said:
As far as broadband, wireless 5G is on the horizon,
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Don't wait for it to come to St. Mary's county and other areas. High bandwidth but the range is limited, which means more towers.
It's why cities and towns are talking about using light poles to put the antenna up.
 
gemma_rae

gemma_rae

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BernieP said:
Don't wait for it to come to St. Mary's county and other areas. High bandwidth but the range is limited, which means more towers.
It's why cities and towns are talking about using light poles to put the antenna up.
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Oh, they're not talking about it. It's is happening right now in D.C., Baltimore, and Ocean City, MD.
 
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