A string of moving trucks was spotted in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday, according to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.
“The mass evacuation of Upper West Siders from NYC is in full effect,” he told the New York Post.
Sliwa blamed the city’s decision to house hundreds of homeless people in the neighborhood’s hotels for the exodus.
“The moment I walked out on my block, near Central Park West, there was a moving truck. I asked where you going, and they said, ‘Virginia.’ They told me, ‘Curtis, first the pandemic hit us and now the quality of life is so bad,'” he recalled.
Sliwa spoke to others moving to places such as New Hampshire and Tennessee, and one young family told him they were headed to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
“They said in the last month, there have been so many disturbed people in the streets, aggressively panhandling, defecating, urinating — they leave the hotels and have no bathrooms to use,” he explained.
Following complaints from residents, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) promised August 17 to start removing homeless people from the city’s hotels and get them back into shelter facilities.
However, he did not give a timeline as to when that process would begin, according to Breitbart News.
Safety was more a motivating factor for people leaving U.S. cities than the coronavirus pandemic, global investor Barry Sternlicht said Tuesday during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
“There’s hundreds of thousands of people looking for suburban homes, and I would say it’s not as driven by the Covid situation as it is safety and law and order, and that is now pervasive across the big cities of the United States, sadly,...
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Build a wall on the Mason and Dixon line. We don't want and more Yankees down here.
ReplyDeleteTypical the one saying they're going to Virginia as my wife and I just moved to PA from VA because these northern liberal transients have ruined that state. I am assuming they will be relocating to Northern VA as that is where all the libs relocate to there. They're worse than the 3rd world folks who refuse to adapt to U.S. way of life as they bring their liberal thinking with them and proceed to turn they place they relocate to into another liberal 'Utopia" which is what they've done to VA.
ReplyDelete"Turd world folks". There, I fixed it for you.
DeleteI live in a rural, safe, friendly area. People live here because it is a hidden gem. Excellent schools (our football teams pray on the field and students are expelled upon the first marijuana possession finding), outdoor activities, and quiet neighbors (well, except target practice).
ReplyDeleteNow home prices are rising fast. People are moving in. Lots of people. I hope they aren’t bringing hard left “values” with them.
"Bringing their blue values" to red states was considered and adopted as part of the Demoncrat way to change this 2020 election. I remember this back in the "Not Our President" days of 2017.
ReplyDeleteMore blue states. Texas was a major target. This has been going on for years but now become a crescendo as things blow apart and the wealthier can afford to move and infect new parts of the nation. They don't learn from experience...