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I'm a native New Yorker, and I left for the weather. I liked everything else there, but you can't change local climate (and no, I'm not referencing AGW)
Suffolk County PD is one of, if not, the most, corrupt departments in the country.
And the SC government is just as dirty and in cahoots with the PD and the union.
It's disgusting. That's why they are highest paid force in the nation. Dirty. Filthy dirty
Another thing they and the other blue states have in common, is that they are the most productive, have the best-educated people and are the backbone of the entire country.
We will likely see a very noticeable change in this situation in the 2020s. A trend has already been underway for the last decade that involves large corps with highly educated workers relocating to more business-friendly areas of the US (e.g., banks, finance and technology firms moving to NC and Texas). The economy is growing in these areas of the country and stagnating in the liberal, high-tax northeast.
We will likely see a very noticeable change in this situation in the 2020s. A trend has already been underway for the last decade that involves large corps with highly educated workers relocating to more business-friendly areas of the US (e.g., banks, finance and technology firms moving to NC and Texas). The economy is growing in these areas of the country and stagnating in the liberal, high-tax northeast.
Northeast cities are still growing. For example, NYC's GDP has been increasing for the past few decades and is expected to keep doing so.
That's because of the TBTF Banks propped up by the Federal Reserve.
Some of it, but the vast majority of it is from technology companies and fintech moving out of westcoast tech hubs to the eastcoast for the talent. Same thing is happening in NC and TX.
The FR is propping up all states/regions. NYC just has a vast industry to feed off of (diversity, one could say).
Many parts of up state NY are economically depressed as are many small cities and rural areas throughout the US, this is not due to some particular action by the government. NY state always had above average real estate taxes, its not as if three was a sudden shift. People move because of employment and retirement.
Many of these states that experiencing growth will also see tax increases but there are many rural areas and small cities with an aging population that is being depleted. I see some states like Vermont offering cash incentives for relocation. Its alright for you to hate NY but stop making up reasons for people departing.
NYS doesn't have "above average" real estate taxes-they have obscene ones-among the very worst, if not the worst, in the entire nation. I left NYS in 1994. I sold a home there for $75k at that time-and was paying $2700 a year in property taxes on it. My place here in Idaho is now worth nearly 10x that-and it took until this year when I exceeded $2700 a year in property taxes. That is on top of high state sales taxes, high income taxes, and insane fees for everything-to say nothing of a LE organization used primarily as a revenue collection tool. Crazy taxes were one of the main reasons I left, but that wasn't all. The decline of the state economy, particularly upstate, had been going on for decades. The ever increasing civil rights infringements in NYS just added to the motivation. Of the top 10 graduates in my HS class-I was the last to leave the state.
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