Posted on 07/06/2020 8:27:04 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
A combination of the coronavirus pandemic, economic uncertainty, and social unrest is prompting waves of Americans to move from large cities and permanently relocate to more sparsely populated areas. The trend has been accelerated by technology and shifting attitudes that make it easier than ever to work remotely. Residents of all ages and incomes are moving in record numbers to suburban areas and small towns.
A perfect storm of factors makes the decision to leave major cities like New York very obvious. The dense nature of urban living and the lack of proper local government planning led to the coronavirus spreading five times faster in New York than the rest of the country. The city that never sleeps now resembles a ghost town in many areas after thousands of its wealthy and middle-class residents fled early in the pandemic.
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I called this a month or two ago.
Guess who else will relocate there?
The Cops ;-)
Excactly! STFO!
Only problem with that is retirees have a high need for medical services, and those services become more sparse the further you move from urban centers. Many suburbs are close enough to make it work.
“The tax base is leaving the cities.”
That’s one way to defund the police, I guess.
I don’t know of a website which specifically offers the statistics (it would probably be bashed as racist) but just do an internet search on your city and “section 8 housing” and look at the map.
Landlords who specialize in this seem eager to rent, due to tax and government benefits they get, and also, the gamers and leftist-organizations who profit from this massive government program are happy to advertise themselves.
Atlanta is ruined. We are heading to the N GA mountains where the southern culture still exists.
The left wing San Francisco rental prices are dropping like rocks dropped in the ocean:
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The decrease in Bay Area rental prices has been significant this year, especially in the most expensive cities. Some median prices have even dropped by double-digit percentages.
San Francisco is still the most expensive city in the country to rent an apartment. But new numbers show there’s been an exodus of residents who have better options. Renters are simply walking away from their leases.
“People are leaving and ditching their apartments, or leaving roommates hanging, or trying best to find a sublease or just leaving San Francisco and moving back home,” said tech salesman Anthony Natoli, who decided to move back to New Jersey with his parents after paying more than $4,000 a month for his apartment in Cow Hollow.
“All of the normal things that we see as driving demand for rental housing in San Francisco have pretty much dried up,” said J.J. Panzer, President of Real Management Company.
In June, rent prices year-over-year dropped more than 9% in San Francisco, Mountain View more than 15%, and Cupertino down 14% according to Zumper, which provides listings of available rental properties and services.
“A lot of people are moving out to Southern California, moving out to Central Valley, moving up to the Sacramento area, Tahoe, and Sonoma County,” said Bobby Fallon of Shamrock Moving & Storage. “It’s definitely been a trend that’s going on. ”
A new survey from the San Francisco Apartment Association shows more than 7% of renters simply broke their leases over the last three months.
Some 2.7 million adults in the country moved in with their parents in March and April. That’s a trend that could lead to more than $700 million in lost rent for landlords this year according to Zillow, an online real estate database company.
“Landlords want a commitment that they’re not going to have a vacancy at this time when we’re looking at with such incredible supply and lots of units opening up and no demand to fill it,” said Panzer.
There may be a way for renters to take advantage of the trend if they approach it correctly.
“You’ll get farther by recognizing landlords want that base rent to be kept basically where it’s at,” said Panzer. “Ask for a free month’s rent. Sign a new one-year lease and the effective rate goes down for 13 months essentially.”
According to Zillow the most affordable cities in the Bay Area now are Vallejo and Concord with the median rent for a one-bedroom going from $1450-$1750.
KENNY CHOI
This was predicted in 1992 by Harry S. Dent. He was ahead of the game and we liked his projections. We left the city and split our seasons between two small towns.
It can’t be beat, the police reports are more humorous than bloody. Most of the criminals are bears and moose.
My wife and I are 66 and have no health insurance except medicare A, which we really don’t expect to have much use for.
We trust in the Lord for our health and our ability to maintain our bodies until we die. We don’t take any drugs and have no intention to.
Meanwhile, pretty much any doctor can set a broken bone or sew you up. And I’m 75 miles from a bunch of hospitals in Louisville, which are just across the freeway from my office. There is also a crappy hospital ten miles from my property.
The taxes in suburbia NJ are beyond ludicrous!
Actually property taxes will not be payed.
The record of Deetroit and Baltimore clearly shows that real estate owners prefer preserving cash rather than pay taxes on what have become worthless buildings. The building becomes a capital loss to be used to off set capital gains on realestate elsewhere.
In Deetroit, literally square miles of deserted real estate that became city property after foreclosure on unpaid taxes was bull dozed. Even the Streets were destroyed.
In Baltimore, the buildings were left to crumble and decay. Unlike Los Angeles, the homeless of Baltimore had an abundance of places to squat besides intents on public lands
A spiral to the bottom. The tax base is leaving the cities. These “demonstrations” these city leaders allowed will be harming those who needed help the most...just like most Leftist policies.
The cops, entrepreneurs, hard workers and investors are in the process of leaving or will soon. The left wing blue cities.
Bears and moose have never virtue signaled—and never will—no dumb lawn signs either.....
Is there a site that lists the density?
In the early eighties there was an influx of NJ and NY folk into Vermont.
They thought the whole state was what they had seen in Bing Crosby movies and Newhart.
In short order, they started getting elected as Selectmen and Reps. Then they started changing laws “to keep Vermont, Vermont.”
By the time I sold my parents home the taxes—that were $1,200 a year—had shot up to $13,000. I couldn’t cut down trees on my property without a literal act of God. I could not use the brand new septic system installed on a small lot because it was put in before the permit system was in place.
It had become a marxist sh!t hole—and this was in the Northeast Kingdom; one of the most depressed counties in the country.
So my advice to anyone in a rural area: Treat the newcomers as we were when we moved to New Hampshire. Don’t elect them to anything. Remind them they are outsiders. Don’t deliver food to their new housing areas. It will keep them from trying to run the place.
NYC is F.*.*.K.E.D. First it was the harbor and being the gateway to the mainland that kept it rich. Then it was the European migration. Then it was finance/banking in addition to being the media/entertainment center of America.
NYC doesn't have anything to justify the massive edifice it's become. It repels free enterprise, production and the young.
BUH BYE.
See reply #25
Good description of the process.
The coexist bumper stickers are absolutely the worst. I get annoyed every time I see one. All I can think is “You’re stuck on joy joy happy thoughts as they’re plotting how best to separate your head from your body.”
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