Mass Exodus from NYC: Young NYers Join The Affluent Bolting The City As Lockdown Drives Professionals Out and Companies Accept Staff Permanently Working From Home
It’s as if Governor killer Cuomo and NYC village idiot Wilhem de Blasio took a machine gun to this city and opened fire. And haven’t stopped firing.
This is all self-inflicted.
Exodus from NYC: The young join the rich in ditching the Big Apple as the coronavirus economic downturn drives professionals out and companies accept staff permanently working from home
The coronavirus lockdown has left young New Yorkers reconsidering the city’s high cost of living
People who can work remotely are eyeing the suburbs or contemplating moving back home with their parents
A recent survey found 69% of people in tech and finance said they would leave New York if they were given the option to work from home permanently
Twitter, Facebook and Spotify recently announced they will allow employees to work from home long-term
Pat Stedman, 31, a dating and relationship coach, said the pandemic has only sped up his and his wife’s exodus from the city and now plans to work remotely from overseas
Many residents have also expressed concerns over whether New York City will successfully bounce back when it finally reopens in the coming months
Young people are joining the rich and are fleeing New York for the suburbs after the coronavirus lockdown left many professionals reconsidering city life as companies begin to permanently adopt work-from-home models.
As COVID-19 gripped the country in mid March, residents of New York City’s wealthiest neighborhoods fled to ride out the lockdown at their vacation homes, while many young people hunkered down in the suburbs with their parents.
Some were forced to break their leases and move back to their hometowns because they could no longer afford the city’s exorbitant rent prices after losing their jobs, while others have continued paying for their cramped city apartments while they shelter elsewhere.
The majority intend to return at the end of the lockdown period, but the economic impact of the pandemic as well as the shift to remote working has led some people to ditch the city for good.
Young people are joining the rich and are fleeing New York for the suburbs after the coronavirus lockdown left many professionals reconsidering city life as companies begin to permanently adopt work-from-home models.
As COVID-19 gripped the country in mid March, residents of New York City’s wealthiest neighborhoods fled to ride out the lockdown at their vacation homes, while many young people hunkered down in the suburbs with their parents.
Some were forced to break their leases and move back to their hometowns because they could no longer afford the city’s exorbitant rent prices after losing their jobs, while others have continued paying for their cramped city apartments while they shelter elsewhere.
The majority intend to return at the end of the lockdown period, but the economic impact of the pandemic as well as the shift to remote working has led some people to ditch the city for good.
Among them is Shelby Gutleber, who lost her job as a waitress in the Upper East Side in March and moved to Keansburg, in central New Jersey – a move she described as the best decision she ever made.
Young professionals are leaving New York City and flocking to smaller, less populated areas after the coronavirus pandemic left many to reconsider the city’s high cost of living. Pictured: Pat Stedman, 31, looks out at Manhattan after ending his lease on his Kips Bay apartment
New York City has been converted into a ghost town after the March 15 lockdown with thousands of residents fleeing to the suburbs to shelter. Pictured: A virtually empty Fifth Avenue on May 4
The 26-year-old was living in an apartment in Washington Heights and was finishing her degree in political science at Columbia University when the pandemic struck.
‘I was laid off and I couldn’t get unemployment. I just finally got it about two or three weeks ago. So thinking about paying $1,250 in rent when you’re unemployed is frightening,’ she told DailyMail.com.
‘On top of that my roommate and I didn’t get along so I was basically stuck in my room.’
Coronavirus cases and deaths in small East Coast towns where NYC ‘refugees’ have fled
Martha’s Vineyard, MA – 29 cases
Nantucket, MA – 39 cases
Newport, RI – 212 cases
Suffolk County, NY (The Hamptons) – 43,218 cases / 1,814 deaths
Cape May County, NJ (Ocean City) – 545 cases / 46 deaths
Facing financial uncertainty and an uncomfortable living situation, Shelby jumped on the opportunity to move back to the suburbs when her brother offered her a spare room in his house in April.
‘It’s been great. This pandemic is horrible in New York City and there is no place to get out.
‘Here I can hike and bike, walk, run, and go to a store without stepping foot on a subway. And no insanely high rent,’ she said.
The college graduate is among the hundreds of thousands of New York City residents who have fled the Big Apple between March 1 and May 1.
As the lockdown entered its third month, a New York Times report last week showed Manhattan’s overall population has fallen by almost 20 percent, with many residents flocking to small east coast towns or popular vacation home destinations.
The data, collected from smartphones, revealed usually-bustling Manhattan neighborhoods such as SoHo, the West Village, Morningside Heights, the Upper East Side, the Financial District, Midtown, Gramercy and Brooklyn Heights, emptied by at least 40 percent.
For New York City office workers, being able to work remotely has made it easier for them to relocate and do their jobs elsewhere during the pandemic.
But as cities begin reopening, a number of companies have announced plans to keep the work from home model for good, raising questions over whether employees will now flee major metropolitan areas for cheaper, and less densely populated regions.
Pat Stedman, a dating and relationship coach, said the health crisis has only helped speed up his and his wife’s exodus from the city which they were considering before the outbreak. The couple is staying in suburban New Jersey until they move overseasMargarita Lyadova (left) a partner manager for an ad tech company in New York City, let go of her Upper East Side apartment to move back home to Minnesota, and is now looking at cheaper markets. Sarah Moebius, 24, (center in brown) said she doesn’t ‘see the point’ in going back to New York City until she’s back at work
For Pat Stedman, 31, a dating and relationship coach, the health crisis has only helped speed up his and his wife’s exodus from the city which they were considering before the outbreak.
The couple ended the lease on their apartment in Kips Bay last week and are now living with Stedman’s parents in South Jersey until they make the move to Poland, where his wife is from.
The pair hope to buy an apartment and start a family overseas, and being able to work remotely has made it all the more convenient.
‘Poland is very family friendly and the cost of living is very low. It’s an opportunity to save a bunch of money,’ Stedman told DailyMail.com.
‘My business is remote, and my wife may be able to do the same with her job.’
‘That said, it’s hard to be in NYC now, all the energy has been sucked out of it. Aside from Central Park, it feels like a prison where everyone is afraid and subdued, not where people go to have fun and make things happen.
‘We spent last weekend there to soak it all up, and we know our time there is done. NYC will recover – it always does – but it’ll be a different NYC after, just like after 9/11 the city changed.’
Earlier this month Twitter announced it will allow some employees to continue working from home on a permanent basis – a concept other tech giants are also weighing up as they prepare for the post-pandemic era.
Music streaming service Spotify followed suit on Friday, telling employees that they can work from home until 2021.
A recent survey conducted by anonymous professionals group Blind, also found 69 per cent of New Yorkers in the tech and finance field would consider relocating if they knew they could work from home permanently.
Eighteen per cent said they would leave the metro area, while 36 per cent said they would move out of the state altogether.
Fifteen per cent said they would leave the country.
The data was collated from responses from more than 4,000 employees at major tech companies including Facebook, Twitter, Uber and Amazon, in Seattle, San Francisco and New York.
Of those respondents, New York had the highest proportion of those eager to flee (37 per cent).
It reinforces the prospect that big cities could become shells of their former selves as office workers transition to working from home permanently, and huge headquarters, that were once an indicator of a company’s success, become an unnecessary expense.
A recent survey conducted by Blind found 69 per cent of New Yorkers in the tech and finance field would consider relocating if they knew they could work from home permanently
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BanLiberals
3 years ago
This is truly FUNNY!
The very people who elected the garbage destroying the city and who enthusiastically supported the idiocy, are now moaning about it?
As soon as these entitled, elitist pigs don;t get what they want, BWAAAAAAHHHH!
Wake up and WISE up, you little boogers, because this is EXACTLY what you asked for!
I hate to break this to you, but most of them will move on to a nice place with more conservative values. They will proceed to vote in the far left politicians that the locals had kept at bay. Within a decade or so the formerly decent place will be overcome by the values of the far left.
For most people, this is indeed the case. Ever since 9/11 especially, but to some degree before, I have made it a point NEVER to elect ANY Democrat to anything – let alone dog catcher – in a general election. Those that do vote Democrat are basically voting against America’s best interests – and for our enemies.
Elections can be fixed. I don’t believe the 0bamanation won the election in 2012 and I don’t think Marine LePen lost the election in Fwance. Californication’s election process is rotten and corrupt from top-to-bottom I fully expect all Repubs to be “voted” out of office in my lifetime across this rotten, corrupt, degenerate, crime ridden, high tax hellhole state.
In Californication, in the last senatorial election, the voters could vote for anyone, as long as they were a member of the Dem0rat party. A fact which is reminiscent of the USSR, where one could “vote” for anyone as a member of the Politburo as long as they were a member of the Communist party.
lostlegends
3 years ago
Frankly, my dear, I have no sympathy for them. They vote, and they despise those of us out in fly over country. They are getting what they voted for. My zip code has had a miniscule 15 cases of the Wu Flu. Live in Northern California. The county where my gold mine is located has had 0 cases of Wu Flu to date. And the weather’s great.
Indeed, but you still have Gavin Newsom a few hundred miles to the south. And he received the most votes last election cycle.
Not much better here in AZ. The SoCal washover from that state is turning this state from red to purple, including the RINO governor. May be blue after 2020
You might want to reconsider some empathy. Calif. is no better than NY. You’re not getting what you voted for. Newsom is a insane as Cuomo. Northern California is beautiful. It’s a beautiful state.
You might want to reconsider some empathy. Calif. is no better than NY. You’re not getting what you voted for. Newsom is a insane as Cuomo. Northern California is beautiful. It’s a beautiful state.
Mark Steiner
3 years ago
Would be a step in the right direction for Ms. Geller to leave NYC. For good reasons she is longer welcome there. Regardless of family ties, familiarity and traditions from her past. The writing is on the wall. Pam, “get outta Dodge!”
She should! There is nothing there for her but memories. Memories, good or bad can never be taken away. The quality of life there is worse than ever, over rated and over priced. When you live elsewhere and taste freedom, it’s hard to want to go back to an environment loaded with crime, filth and corrupt politicians who can’t tax you enough.
IMO it’s not worth living there and you don’t impress people with a NY or NYC address. It’s unlikely with third world demographics and criminals constantly being released, there is enough decent people there to vote in people to make the needed changes. Of course you can fight it….. I do have empathy for her and other good people who need to live there for business reasons or familial reasons. They are the true victims.
What, because she tries to talk you out of your insane love affair with a medieval religion, you sick piece of junk?
Are you even mentally capable of understanding people’s opposition to ISISlam? Do you have any clue what Islam is really like or are you just a braindead puke who merely responds to the word “racist”? lol…
If your “wonderful” city is full of morons like you, no sane person would want to live there anyway.
Ms. Geller does not voice opposition to Islam only in NYC. Have you never heard what almost happened to her in Arlington, TX a few years ago? She is loved everywhere. And despised by reprobates everywhere with her adherence to Constitutional righteousness.
As for you, McSewage, trolls like you never go away, even in a left-wing inspired pandemic. Not even for Memorial Day. Your carefully thought out response to me is received with gratitude. You are a confirmation of what is best in America. Received as a badge of honor. Keep ’em coming. I have much time and distance to share with you, McSewage. Good day.
No way. You’re reading skills need calling into question, Mr. McSewage.
Back in 2016 Ms. Geller had a speech in Denver. After the visit, I e-mailed her SUGGESTING her she may want to move from NYC to Denver. At that time she was thinking about it, NOTHING MORE. Now, you make an invidious claim I am celebrating her imminent departure from New York.
Pal, you need to do some hard thinking before you put pen to ink. If she stayed in NYC I will celebrate that she is alive to do what she does. If she chooses to leave NYC for another spot, I can celebrate her decision. As for you, let’s cut to the chase …
If you were to die today, where do you think you would go? I could care less about the vituperative spirit of name calling you joyfully possess. Answer, and let’s see what can be done forward.
joe shmoe
3 years ago
NY is the new detroit… thanks liberals
Cameron
3 years ago
The problem is that when these people flee to other places they vote like they always have and ruin everything for the rest of us. They still worship the big government dystopia tthat is being forced on us even though they Don’t like living in it. They are a contradiction unto themselves and I hope they stay where they are rather than spreading their retardation. https://overcast.fm/+YCcpCmOMM
William Svoboda
3 years ago
I am a New Yorker, from Upstate NY. This state belongs to the people not to some politician or political party. So I have a novel Idea, let’s vote out these corrupt politicians starting with the Governor in Albany and working down to a Mayor in NYC. Let’s end the pay to play the graft, the payoff’s, All of it, end it. You don’t have to leave New York, we need to throw the “Bums” out.
Sounds great, until you do the numbers…..
NYC has enough votes to cancel out the rest of the states wishes, that is when a certain % of them will vote for the liberals anyway.
No – voting won’t get us out of this mess…There is ony one way to get out of this mess, and I fear there aren’t enough people with the steel to make it happen
You’re a fool. NY residents made this mess for themselves. Piss off and grow some balls. Your ilk is not welcomed in Tennessee. Enjoy the bed you made for yourself.
Oh surely you jest! When you have half-wits voting, you end up with half-wit LEADERSHIP. If I were Trump, I WOULD TOTALLY IGNORE/REFUSE ANY AND ALL LIBERAL STATES THAT OPPOSED HIM.
I wouldn’t lend a dime to my creepy Cousin who dissed me and called me names, so why would I help him? And, if my Cousin’s family continues to support his recklessness, then THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET, UNTIL THEY GET RID OF HIM!
Sometimes WE JUST NEED TO SAY ‘NO MORE’!
#DoNOTVoteDemocrat
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
And how many of these lieberals from NYC lived in a neighborhood where the f’ing muslums blast their ahdan 5 times a day EVERY day of the week?
famouswolf
3 years ago
Always wondered how the New York in the movie ‘Escape From New York’ could come to pass. So now we find out.
Dmitry Krotchlikmeoff
3 years ago
New York is finished. Interesting to see what the population is after this.
I am hoping NEW JERSEY falls into the ocean. Their citizens also are mostly liberals who don’t have enough brain power between them to make any kind of good decisions.
John Acord
3 years ago
Large cities and metropolises will soon become relics of the industrial and post-industrial. age rendered uneconomical and environmentally unsafe, fit only for the collection and management of that part of the population that doesn’t elect to become part of the new digital age. No longer will young people be forced to migrate to L.A. or NYC to obtain employment and live in an apartment with four locks on the door and a street filled with hazards and crime. They can do their work form the safety of a home or small community in whatever location they desire, close to family, and the pursuits they enjoy. No longer will they desperately look forward to long weekends and holidays when they can flee the loathsome city for a safe, relaxing “vacation.” They can live the vacation 24/7/365and the DeBalios, Garcittis, and lightfoot’s can go pound sand.
CARRENO BARTOX
3 years ago
Those are the kind of human beings who voted for the murderous Democrat alliance between BLASSIO&CUOMHOLE, and for that life threatening dumb moron AOC (I guess she gave up bartending after poisoning clients with her drinks…) :
Liberals and Hedonists confronted with the real world always try to flee into beautiful regions to continue their sucking way of life.
They should stay in NYC and cherish their murderous Democrat tin pot Dictators – instead of to snafu Florida and others.
dingo
3 years ago
Just because they are leaving, to head to a Suburban (Assuming The Bigger destination) haven,
means,they’re also bringing their Problems,and Weaknesses. THEMSELVES. . I can’t feel sorry for the cowards,(Mostly Anger) who brought IN the problem, The same Problem they’re NOW running from.
I AGREE. If your city or town has MUSLIMs, you may want to LEAVE OR FIGHT THEM! In either case, you’d better be sure you can win. ME, I would just move to a CONSERVATIVE STATE, like the one I am in now. Mosques here are NOT ALLOWED to loudspeaker their call to prayer at 6am, at least, in my county. In fact, because of it, the Mosque we did have, MOVED TO CLEVELAND. Residents here were at the Police station constantly demanding they shut down their loudspeakers. A judge finally ruled in our favor. THAT IS HOW IT IS DONE!
SO, STAY AWAY FROM CLEVELAND, OHIO!
Lyle Hartman
3 years ago
Please stay in the NE, we don’t want you here screwing up our part of the world. Basically if you voted for Obama or Clinton we don’t want you, period. Suck up your own mess.
tn_tea _ partyer_420
3 years ago
To all the young New Yorkers seeing the tyranny you enthusiastically voted for. Please stay out of Tennessee your liberal ways will be met with good old southern resistance. I’ll be damned if I sit quietly while these liberal idiots invade my great state
TomSJr
3 years ago
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.
When you vote for INCOMPETENT leaders and you work in LIBERAL-RUN towns and States, AND you continue keeping these deranged control freaks in office, THEN YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET. IF partying is all you care about, PLEASE STAY WHERE YOU ARE! IF you really want FREEDOMs and to take care of your family, THEN MOVE OUT OF NEW YORK!
A real breath of fresh air will be when you move to a CONSERVATIVE state that REWARDS you for re-locating to its State by providing tax breaks and a low cost of living! OHIO COMES TO MIND. Ohio gives a whole lot of tax breaks, except for CLEVELAND, which is essentially LIBERAL and this is why is it STILL a dirty, liberal-infested rat hole. Go south of Cleveland and they will welcome you with open arms, giving you tax breaks and the cost of living IS LOW! Ohio has a no-nonsense Conservative Governor who has never really closed down Ohio. I have never sheltered myself and no one else I know has in Ohio. Yes, we social distance, but that is all!
IF YOU ARE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND YOU OWN A BUSINESS, MOVE TO OHIO!
IF YOU ARE TIRED OF LIBERALISM, which is actually SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM and you want your FREEDOM TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF, move to OHIO!
IF you don’t mind being told WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT; if you don’t mind giving up your rights, THEN BY ALL MEANS, STAY WHERE YOU ARE IN THAT LIBERAL STATE!
DIE-HARD LIBERALS ARE NOT WELCOME! YOU CAN STAY THERE!
Randall Anderson
3 years ago
Commie Socialists are parasites, destroying everything they have stolen in the first place.
Jay
3 years ago
What the Demo☭rat’s will do to create a Crisis and Destroy the Economy:
1. Start The Pandemic To Overthrow President Trump, So Demo☭rat’s Can Get Their Money And Power Back.
2. Use Fake News Media To Falsely Shout Virus, And Cause A Panic And Brainwash The Naive.
3. Pay Hospitals/Doctors More for Labeling Covid19 Death. Cancer=covid, run over by a train=covid, shot in the head=covid, Heart attack,=covid
4. Government Paychecks A Priority, With Or Without Working.
5. More Money To Universities, Museums & Piglosi’s Private Jet Rides & Ice Cream
6. Write Checks To Illegals, Release Felons, Open The Boarders
7. Impose Unconstitutional Orders, Forced Vaccinations
8. HOLD Relief Funds For Small Businesses That Are Forced to Shut Down
9. Close Churches, But Keep Mosques Open
10. Make Abortions And Pot a Priority
11. Implement Mail In Voting Fraud
12. Investigate And Blame President Trump
1. “Gretchen Whitmer Allows Gay Swinger’s Club to Operate While Barber Loses License”.
Fornication, abortion, booze, and marijuana are essential. Church isn’t, if that doesn’t show us who we are dealing with nothing will…
These Doctor’s falsifying cases/death certificates should be imprisoned.
Bernie Sanders, campaign goals have already been achieved.
France-HP-a-ciel-ouvert
3 years ago
You cowards, you created this mess. No one should take these idiots in, they’ll turn your cities into sheetholes like the one they’re fleeing.
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