dagblog - Comments for "The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods" http://dagblog.com/link/privileged-have-entered-their-escape-pods-32271 Comments for "The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods" en The more there's uncontrolled http://dagblog.com/comment/288300#comment-288300 <a id="comment-288300"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/privileged-have-entered-their-escape-pods-32271">The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The more there's uncontrolled violent crime, looting, riots and continued large protests obstructing daily functioning in large urban centers, that should help rush this process along. </p> <p>As to NYC, it's already happened, many of the major luxury purveyors have taken leases in Southhampton out on Long Island where their customers have already gone and are staying in their summer estates. Their kids will be enrolled in school there and when it's made sure they are the best available and that the police force has been enhanced, then they will probably be building a toll road into town so that all vehicles entering and leaving can be checked.</p> <p>This, along with the lack of tourist taxes (always had huge taxes on hotels, parking, car service, airport fees and the like)  leaves NYC without much tax revenue to offer services to the poor classes left behind.</p> <p>The upper middle class? They're leaving NYC too:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p>New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: ‘The Demand Is Insane’ "....Buyers have expressed worries about the health risks of crowded urban neighborhoods...."<a href="https://t.co/52vEYvLI03">https://t.co/52vEYvLI03</a></p> — Mary M. Walsh Art Advisory (@MaryMWalsh) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMWalsh/status/1300228174924705805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2020</a></blockquote> </div> <p>So keep rioting looting and demanding less policing, that will help chase <em>all</em> the money away.</p> <p>Chicago should be a real hellhole soon. I imagine: garbage collection once a month...one fire station per a gazillion square miles...</p> <p>Don't forget, the Obama's got themselves a little island joint to go to permanently, you have to take a ferry or a helicopter to get there</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p>Don't worry though, you know very well things to get better <a href="https://t.co/jN1a8Ir3G3">https://t.co/jN1a8Ir3G3</a></p> — Dan Maul (@DanVMaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanVMaul/status/1299744727135383553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2020</a></blockquote> </div> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:59:13 +0000 artappraiser comment 288300 at http://dagblog.com