New York City, which has been hit by the new crown epidemic for nearly two years, seems that in addition to the declining level of security, the rest of the guidelines affecting people's lives are continuing to rise, house prices, property taxes, inflation, etc., making the middle class at the mainstay of society overwhelmed, and have decided to evacuate this city that has struggled for nearly half a lifetime.
Before the new crown, New York's unique humanities and urban resources gave me a lot of spiritual and ideological gains;
But wages have not kept pace with inflationary growth, and rents have risen to the same level as before after a brief pullback.
Ms. Zhou, an assistant professor at Columbia University in New York, is about to move to the West Bank with her husband, and gradually loses the rich and colorful cultural scenery of New York, leaving only an expensive shell, and I don't know why I should continue to stay here.
Under the pressure of strong inflation, high taxes and poor security, leaving has become the new normal for New Yorkers after the epidemic Figure: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Transportation Department
Ms. Zhou, who studied hard at Columbia University for five years and got a doctorate in economics, never thought that one day she would leave this ideal city in her heart, if economic problems can be gradually overcome through struggle, then the crime of qiuya and the bad law and order have become the last straw that crushed the camel, the tramp has actually existed in New York, but it is not as serious as it is now, before I felt that as long as I hid a little farther, they would not take the initiative to hurt me, but the recent incident of Gao Huimin, Let me know that as long as I have an Asian face, I can be the target of attacks.
Before the epidemic, Ms. Zhou, who liked to watch dramas near Times Square, experienced extreme inner suffering in just ten minutes after the first time from the Broadway Theater to the subway station, around 9 p.m., it used to be the beginning of New York nightlife, but this time walking on the road, I always saw some strange eyes, and I was afraid that someone would suddenly pull out a gun.
Frequent public security incidents have always made Ms. Zhou's heart have a shadow, the life experience is really reduced a lot, and after a long time, I will think about why I live in a city that makes people feel so heavy psychologically.
Liu Ling, a senior software engineer who has been working at Google for five years, recently shifted the focus of buying a house from New York City to New Jersey across the river, in the eyes of others we may be a high-paying group, but in a society where everything is rising and becoming more expensive, money must also be saved, especially the cost of buying a house.
Compared with New York, New Jersey has a lower tax rate and a more open and beautiful living environment, and has become the first choice for New York office workers to buy and rent after the epidemic.
After all, in New York today, even the middle class with a fixed income and stable housing can't keep up with the soaring and growing tax bill, I bought a house in Kew Gardens, Queens, in 2001, when the annual tax was 4,000 yuan, now rose to 15,000 yuan.
Kathryn Donnelly said that although the income is still passable, I find that everything is getting tighter, living in New York is getting harder and harder, and I have to work non-stop until the day I die.
The slowdown in the epidemic has brought about a continuous recovery in rents in New York City, and the rent appreciation of many high-end properties is even higher than before the epidemic.
Many young tenants, after carrying the coronavirus, have not survived the pressure of inflation, soaring housing prices and high taxes, and gradually moved out of New York to live in New Jersey, across the river.
According to a report by miller Samuel, a real estate valuation firm, the median Manhattan rental price achieved its first positive growth since May 2020 last fall, with an increase nearly the same as in December 2019, with new and luxury buildings growing faster, with house prices rising 12% to the median of $5,170.
As a result, young tenants who had been living in high-end real estate had to start looking for another way.
Chen Yi, who lived in Hell\\'s Kitchen in Midtown Manhattan in 2019, the apartment renewal period just caught up with the warming period of house prices, the new contract price really frightened her, my one-bedroom apartment rose from 3500 yuan in 19 years to 4900 yuan, and the landlord did not accept bargaining, saying that the rent of the nearby real estate was over 5000 yuan, and they were already giving preferential treatment to old tenants.
Chen Yi said that the first year of the epidemic to renew the lease when the property market was depressed, the owner in order to retain the old tenants also provided free network and other preferential packages, did not expect that the treatment is now very different, and then I searched for nearby house prices, found that indeed all rose very badly, may be retaliatory recovery, the epidemic period losses are earned back.
Wu Kairui, who has lived in a high-end apartment in The Forest Hill in Queens for five years, also encountered the same problem, originally planned to rent a new two-bedroom apartment for her parents in her own community, she found that the 2500 yuan seen half a year ago directly became the recent 3800 yuan, a little regret did not rent it earlier, did not expect the house price to warm up so quickly.
Wu Kairui began to consider moving to NSW.
A report by the real estate website StreetEasy late last year showed that New York's popular rental areas have gradually recovered to pre-pandemic levels in the fall, and I have decided to move to Jersey City, where the property near the Hudson River and Hell's Kitchen are of comparable quality, but the price of a room is less than 2500 yuan;
Moreover, NSW's tax revenue has a considerable advantage over New York, and the recent inflation trend is becoming more and more obvious, and it also has to save living expenses.
Chen Yi said that ms. Wei, a housing agent, said that Jersey City has indeed become a new joy for New York office workers and international students, and coupled with the recent rise in rents in New York City, many young people who were originally looking at houses in Man Island and Long Island City have finally chosen NSW.
Jersey City's youth-populated neighborhoods have extended from the early Newport to the inner Courtyard Square and even Newark;
Many real estate developers value the dependence of young people on transportation convenience and price advantages, and have created new high-end apartments next to the main Path station, before the epidemic, young people prefer Long Island City, but with the post-epidemic wave of housing prices, I think Jersey City will become the first choice of more people in the future.
New Yorker Talk, The Capital of Empires, The Appeal Is No More
Once New York has become a dazzling pearl of the empire with diversity and tolerance, and is also the world's financial capital, trade capital, fashion capital, cultural capital...
More is its innumerable titles and unobstructed glory.
And as the covid-19 pandemic continues for nearly two years, the light of the Imperial Pearl seems to have long been obscured by a depressed economy, falling stock prices, fleeing tourists and dirty cityscapes, replaced by the brutal truth of the capital of crime, the capital of inflation, the capital of the homeless, and even the left-leaning capital.
New York, which has gradually lost its once rich and colorful cultural scenery, has only an expensive shell left, and I don't know why I should continue to stay here.
In the 24th month of semi-isolated life, the disappointed viewer could not stand the city's high prices, soaring taxes, disorderly security and the mutant virus that did not know when it would strike again, and decided to leave with the youth and broken dreams that had been struggled, and what attracted me to New York before was the outside world, not the small room now, and I wanted to change the city and return to normal life.
These people who underpin the functioning of cities and social innovation are choosing to leave, and perhaps in the eyes of the authorities and capitalists, they have a more important identity - taxpayers, more bluntly, leeks to be cut.
Due to the government's unfavorable response to the new crown virus, the high fiscal deficit owed is waiting for the leeks to repay, but the public security problems that are killed halfway out make it difficult for the leeks to survive.
After all, a city that cannot even guarantee basic personal safety, a capital city where ordinary quality of life is difficult to maintain, even if it enjoys a century-old reputation, it is difficult to tie up the heart of those who love it that has long since lost expectations.
Perhaps in the near future, a New York City with no prosecution for misdemeanors, legalization of guns, and unpaid wages will be left with only streetless people who will become voters for the government to please.