Homelessness, Drugs, Budget Crisis: What Pushes New Yorkers to Relocate

New Yorkers have experienced a lot, from the economic crisis to the 11/XNUMX attacks. It would seem that there is nothing to scare them. Still, the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic strongly influenced the decision of many city dwellers to move. What exactly makes New Yorkers leave the city, the video says in the publication CNN.

New Yorkers are used to facing challenges and overcoming them. Hurricanes Sandy and Catherine, 11/2008 attacks, XNUMX financial crisis. However, the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic were so serious that many New Yorkers even decided to change their place of residence.

It all started in early spring when the COVID-19 pandemic swept New York. Many businesses have closed and real estate sales have stalled. Today, the number of vacant homes in Manhattan has grown by 87%.

Many media outlets write that the city will no longer be the same. And if he returns to his usual life, he will lose the magic that the locals value so much.

The 47-year-old New Yorker believes that New York has lost the atmosphere she was willing to pay for. After 25 years of living here, she packed up and moved to live with her parents in Louisville, Kentucky. At first she lived with her parents, and then moved to a separate house. She does not regret the decision she made. “I was in New York during the 11/XNUMX attacks, during Hurricane Sandy and the recession. I had no intention of leaving. But this time everything is completely different, ”said the girl.

New York began to lose its population even before the pandemic, in late 2019. But the coronavirus crisis appears to have heightened New Yorkers' interest in relocating.

State Governor Andrew Cuomo urged people who left to return. “You must go back. When you return, I will buy you a drink and prepare dinner, come, ”said the governor.

But even the most patient metropolitan residents are running out of patience. “Who wants to go back to that? I was here in the 1970s, when everything was very difficult and people are afraid that we will return to this, ”said one of the local residents.

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In addition to the pandemic, New York City is also facing homelessness issues. The townspeople are increasingly talking about the fact that the authorities must do something. “Drugs are being sold and used more and more in New York now,” said one of the metropolitan residents. "This is troubling."

More than 10 people have been relocated from homeless shelters to hotels in the wake of the pandemic, according to the city's welfare office. “I definitely think New York will survive and come out of this (crisis - Ed.). We survived 11/XNUMX. In fact, I was working in one of the towers when it happened. We are very resilient, we can go through anything, ”says another resident of the Big Apple.

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio also believes that the city will recover, but that will take time. “We were struck by an absolute, ideal storm: a health crisis, an economic crisis, a budget crisis, and all this immediately led to an increase in crime. And all this is interconnected. But that too will pass, ”the mayor said.

The "storm" de Blasio is talking about is currently undergoing an Extra Virgin restaurant in the West Village. “I don't think the city is dying. I think that the city is definitely going through a phase when we need to adapt and adapt to the new, ”says an employee of this institution.

Previously we wrote about where New Yorkers are moving en masse, and who most often thinks about moving.