Le Sigh

Yet another story about how New Yorkers are "fleeing" the city for the suburbs. Oh yes, they're marching on out of the mean-pandemic infested five boroughs and into the arms of the everluvin' clean suburbs in hordes. 

Le sigh.

This is the kind of myopic nonsense that makes our world all kinds of eff-ed up. Yes, ok, so some New Yorkers are leaving the city, and the stress of the pandemic is what's obviously causing this unusual spike in people moving to the suburbs. But it's not like the city is emptying out, a metaphorical draining bathtub, soon to swirl the drain. It's a bunch of people who were thinking about moving to the suburbs before the pandemic anyway and decided to go sooner rather than later. Or they're idiots who think the city is somehow doomed and think in the very short term. 

But if you read this story you'd think it's a phenomenon, and a huge crises for NYC. Just wait -- in a few years you'll see stories about people who left NYC during this time and now regret it, trying to find some way back into the place they abandoned. They'll discover that the school and services are no where near as good as they were in NYC -- and that the property taxes are way higher than they thought. And I will laugh and laugh! 

By the way NYC itself has great suburbs. I know, I live in them -- and love it!