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I forgot which channel, but there was a news story on this. Many blacks living in the northeast are moving back to the south for a number of reasons:
1) They fled the south to get away from the racism there, nowadays the south is not the same place and race relations are much better.
2) Cost of living, taxes, etc. The northeast is very cost prohibitive in terms of real estate price and sodomizing tax rates.
3) They miss the south, it's home. They moved to the northeast begrudgingly. Now that the problems they fled are no longer an issue, there's not much incentive to remain in the northeast.
Yes, blacks are moving back to their family towns and areas in the South, but I fear that the Southern places like the Carolinas are going to get too crowded with the whites all going there, too. The infrastructure: Can it handle all of these new people? Is the population growing too fast down there?
Lower cost of living, 300 days of sun, 45 minutes to actual spectacular Mountains, decent restaurants, less crowded, nicer folks, much less of that "keeping up with the joneses" mentality so prevalent in the Northeast, sunny dry summer days and cool nights, etc...I've lived in both NYC and Philly, and you can have them both. Time to rediscover my inner Mountain-Man haha!!
300 days of sun? Is there a water shortage? Just wondering.
Yes, blacks are moving back to their family towns and areas in the South, but I fear that the Southern places like the Carolinas are going to get too crowded with the whites all going there, too. The infrastructure: Can it handle all of these new people? Is the population growing too fast down there?
Most of the resevoirs supplying greater Denver with water are located in the mountains. Because the mountains usually get pounded with snow during winter, water shortages aren't a major concern. There has been some mild rationing recently, according to some friends of mine, but nothing major.
Pop on over to the Colorado forum if you want to read about water issues. I lived in Colorado for 4 years. Unfortunately, the cities of the front range are a water crisis powder-keg waiting to explode. I'd love to move back at some point but I don't know if I could move that far away from family again.
I'm very surprised when I hear people say they want to live in NYC. All I can imagine are people thinking they will live a "Sex and the City" lifestyle when in reality NYers are: overworked, overtaxed, overstressed, covered in pollution/pee fumes, bitter, cold, always late to something, etc.
There's nothing glorious about NYC except jobs, entertainment and "culture". I can easily live without the latter two, especially since they come paired with an exorbitant cost and low quality of life.
Any time someone from the south, mid-west or basically any other place in the country tells me they want to live in NYC, I ask them if they really want to leave their 5BR house to live in a 450 sq ft studio of the same price.
I'm very surprised when I hear people say they want to live in NYC. All I can imagine are people thinking they will live a "Sex and the City" lifestyle when in reality NYers are: overworked, overtaxed, overstressed, covered in pollution/pee fumes, bitter, cold, always late to something, etc.
There's nothing glorious about NYC except jobs, entertainment and "culture". I can easily live without the latter two, especially since they come paired with an exorbitant cost and low quality of life.
Any time someone from the south, mid-west or basically any other place in the country tells me they want to live in NYC, I ask them if they really want to leave their 5BR house to live in a 450 sq ft studio of the same price.
Get me out of here!
Anytime I meet somebody on a plane when I am traveling back and forth from Florida, I tell them DON'T move to Florida from NY. LIVING in "paradise" year round is nothing like VACATIONING in Florida. They seem stunned, but to a person, they all tell me, "Thank you".
Anytime I meet somebody on a plane when I am traveling back and forth from Florida, I tell them DON'T move to Florida from NY. LIVING in "paradise" year round is nothing like VACATIONING in Florida. They seem stunned, but to a person, they all tell me, "Thank you".
Anytime I meet somebody on a plane when I am traveling back and forth from Florida, I tell them DON'T move to Florida from NY. LIVING in "paradise" year round is nothing like VACATIONING in Florida. They seem stunned, but to a person, they all tell me, "Thank you".
That's exactly how I feel about NYC. Manhattan is a *fantastic* place to visit once in a while and take advantage of the experiences it offers.
I've eaten at more high end restaurants than I can count (and probably spent enough over the years to have paid for a vacation to Bora Bora), seen more than a dozen Broadway shows, participated in several bizarre yet free NYC events, etc. It's fun for a while, but it's extremely costly to maintain that kind of life and loses the specialness of it all after a year.
I would rather live somewhere with a better quality of life and travel occasionally to interesting places, such as Manhattan.
Lack of cultural and intellectual offerings, really crummy weather 6 months out of the year, and pretty much artistically dead. Whenever I visit mom in Floriduh I feel like hanging myself. Other that, it has nice beaches.
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