Bemoaning NYC’s ‘Mad Rush’ for the Exits | Eastern North Carolina Now

Publisher's note: The author of this post is Mitch Kokai for the John Locke Foundation.

    Editors at the New York Post lament the sad, but predictable, outcome of government failure in New York City.

  • It's not just a few Upper West Siders who are fleeing New York: Moving companies say they're swamped with calls from residents looking to ditch the city - even though the COVID crisis has waned.
  • One likely reason: The virus was but the last straw; New Yorkers are fed up with the shootings and lootings, homelessness on the streets, sub-par online schools, sky-high taxes and the sheer obliviousness of pols like Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
  • On Sunday, The Post highlighted families who've given up on the Upper West Side - now teeming with junkies, the homeless, convicts and others - and are headed for greener pastures outside Gotham.
  • Meanwhile, Fox Business reports that moving companies are seeing a continuing surge in citywide business that began soon after the COVID outbreak. And while many of those fleeing may come from Manhattan, the trend is surely not confined to the Upper West Side. ...
  • ... Oz Moving says the number of relocations continues to rise at a "substantial rate." It was booked to capacity earlier in the year than in any of the previous 27 years.
  • United Van Lines, too, cites a whopping 95 percent spike, year over year, in interest in moving out of Manhattan between May and July, versus just 19 percent nationally.
  • Sure, many of those who've headed out were merely trying to escape COVID, which socked the city in the spring. Some may even return; a reported spike in storage-space business is a sign they will.
  • Yet the fact that the rush for the exits continues to grow, even as new coronavirus cases have plummeted, suggests other reasons. Like the crime wave: The number of shootings per day, for instance, has doubled since last year. Other crimes are up, too.

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