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I’d think the rats & roaches would already deter someone who doesn’t HAVE TO go to NYC from going; what a sewer. A friend of mine works there, and he says you can always tell when they’re filming a movie (besides the streets being blocked off): too many of the extras are “white”. You’d think you were in Edmonton...

I saw how absolutely non-white (at least what most of us would think of as white) NYC is when I visited there several years back. It seems like literally EVERYONE has jet black hair, and some shade of brown or olive skin. Every now and then you see a rather tall, slender, attractive woman with blond hair walking by, and you realize she is a model. The few other white people I saw I overheard speaking German or with a Midwestern accent, and knew they were tourists. I still remember a couple of natives chuckling loudly when a white guy walked past them, exclaiming excitedly as if they had seen an exotic foreigner, "He must be from Iowa!"

They certainly never broadcast the fact. I believe that is why it is a “sanctuary city”: Americans don’t want to live there, less of them even work there since the financial industry’s permanent “contraction”, and if they didn’t open the gates to just about everyone it would be a ghost town.

I’m not even knocking the people there; they are hardly sitting on their asses. Many work long days as taxi drivers, in restaurants, etc.; they exist at a third-world level to make ends meet, because I’d guess it is still better than where they came from.

In the last 5 years I've had no desire to visit NYC when on the annual visit with the LI relatives. The last time in Manhattan it felt like a galaxy a few light years away. I would rather not contribute a dime to such a craphole with it's petty WS criminals and tyrant mayor. FuNY, a state full of rats!