r85 please, NYC is a salad bowl. goto L.A. if you want a melting pot.
If we're concerned about the locally economically challenged, particularly those most likely to end up homeless or otherwise dependent upon NYC's strained resources... why would you be against improving their outcomes by allowing their own resources and earning potential be maximized by a change of scenery -- offering them more living space and greater opportunities that is more frequently limited to the middle or higher classes?
The city becomes a trap for those near or below the poverty line and this often becomes a multigenerational prison that is difficult to escape from. -- just as the same is true within rural communities.
Our urban centers suffer from the liberal-esque rebranding of the rural's religious distain for achieving economic freedom and prosperity; "But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."
the oversimplification and bastardization of this philosophy has led to more people remaining poor, dependent and oppressed .
r84 agreed. historically, in the long term, unprepared transplants and refugees as well as young adults fare better starting out and building themselves up in smaller communities than in metro cities.
There's many incentives to be in a metro city but it's simply not practical for most, especially those lacking financial security and a localized support network.
it's not for disdain of the lower classes that I say we provide greater opportunities for them to leave the city (or yes, to reduce the number of transplants that are at too high of a risk for keeping afloat) but rather recognizing the compounded problems of living in NYC when you're close to the poverty line... especially for young adults and those with bigger families.
Plus NY, overall, needs more lifeblood outside of NYC as do surburban and smaller towns in surrounding states -- so, it's not as if they can't still commute....
if the idea of providing a NY credit for struggling and at-risk families/individuals to move to states that already offer residental recruitment bonuses, and yes, some of these opportunities aren't limited to just skilled workers, although, obviously that provides additional opportunities and incentives.
Plus didn't y'all want to turn red states blue? That's only going to be achieved by moving people into the communities that middle upper class libs won't relocate to aka the burbs, smaller towns and even the bfe boonies.
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it'd never happen, of course, because like how homeless services are an industry... so, too, is the trap of the welfare system... it provides too much opportunity FOR GOVT to redirect funds for pork spending and appear to be 'working' with the least amount of effort because the greater public are pavlovian idiots that allow it to happen. . . it's feel good for the very public that points to this economically challenged population as the bulk of the problems on its streets and public transport, the lead cause of virtually every strained resource of the city but again, react like hypocritical tards when it comes to doing more than just throwing unclaimed money at it.
anyone remember 80s NYC? Because that was solely the result of this feel good mentality.