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Maybe for Americans, but tons of French young people come to New York/USA post college years, and have done so for ages.
In fact have made several long term French friends over years from those who came to USA after college to work, but eventually went back to France.
If you roam around Manhattan and certain parts of Brooklyn you can't get away from hearing French and or French people. Some are here permanently, but good portion are young people on various temporary visas.
What parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn specifically?
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For certain demographic moving to NYC or some other large urban American city for several years post college has been a right of passage.
If you're from Podunk, USA or even good part of many places in Europe there is nothing that compares with NYC. Money you can make, things you can do, etc..
Females come here to live out their SATC fantasy, dating and laying up with all sorts of guys they never would find back home, and of course what happens in NYC, stays in NYC. Then they marry and or go back home to live out rest of their lives.
For guys it is pretty much same thing. Money is good here, there is a wealth of things to do, females to date/lay up with, etc.....
High rents, high cost of living, etc... are all part of the cross they must carry for living the NYC "experience". Most don't plan on ending their days here, so will put up with things for two, five or whatever years before high-tailing it back to Podunk, USA.
Of course a percentage like it here and never leave....
Talk about making up things. I have a very wide range of people in my life and not one that moved here from another place ever returned to that place.
I mean are you speaking of people from New Jersey and Long Island that moved to the city for a few years and then move back to The burbs?
One thing for sure.
Mayor Billy is gone in 17 days. Good Riddance.
People will flock back to New York City along with
hundreds of thousands illegal migrants job seeking.
Rents will skyrocket, basic costs will rise, property taxes
will rise, more homeless will be visible, crime will escalate,
and many homeowners having been bitten will prefer to keep
their apartments empty until the mention of Covid becomes as
faint as a whisper.
Maybe for Americans, but tons of French young people come to New York/USA post college years, and have done so for ages.
In fact have made several long term French friends over years from those who came to USA after college to work, but eventually went back to France.
If you roam around Manhattan and certain parts of Brooklyn you can't get away from hearing French and or French people. Some are here permanently, but good portion are young people on various temporary visas.
If I was non American, I'd probably choose to relocate to cities like London, Paris, Lisbon or Milan. Those cities have less crime, less poverty and are far more integrated (racially and culturally) than NYC.
It's not just the skyscrapers, restaurants and entertainment venues that make a city; it's actually the people.
Many native New Yorkers have moved on, and what is left unfortunately, are large swarths of transplants who bring their small minded thinking from Podunk USA. Most of them are from wastelands like Kansas, Alabama, Missouri, Arizona, Montana, etc. Needless to say, NYC is not getting the "best and brightest," these days...
I actually saw a middle age woman in a tulle (tutu) skirt, with heels and a tiara waiting for a bus in midtown. I've never felt so embarrassed for a total stranger in my life. I'm sure she wouldn't wear that in Kansas City or wherever she was initially from, but somehow, she thought it was appropriate in NYC.
What I dislike most is when people have zero originality and copy something, merely because they saw it on a TV show or on social media.
Talk about making up things. I have a very wide range of people in my life and not one that moved here from another place ever returned to that place.
I mean are you speaking of people from New Jersey and Long Island that moved to the city for a few years and then move back to The burbs?
No they aren't talking about the B&T Joisey crowd...
The people they talk about are the majority. This is why I'm not interested in Manhattan except for medical care. They have taken over...
If you haven't seen the tasteless tutus, perhaps take the rose colored glasses off.
Young affluent white children fighting over hole in the wall apartments and to ride big aluminum sardine cans.... all funded by allowance from Daddy
You just can't make this stuff up
I seriously doubt that most of them are truly "affluent." If they were, they wouldn't have to live with 2 or so roommates to afford a 3.5k-4k/month apt.
Most affluent people purchase their apartments, they don't rent them.
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