Wife and I frequent NYC throughout the year.

Manhattan, Brooklyn, canal street for silly popups and shit, museums, etc.

New York is an extremely vibrant, wonderful city with tons of different people and that's amazing.

I absolutely could not live there, I need my peace and quiet at a certain point.

Neighborhoods are all being torn up by these foreign developers making these condos that just sit empty. They're razing our neighborhoods for the ultrarich because the city is broke since the pandemic and all our taxes go federally instead of taking care of our own expenses. Mayor Adams sold us off to the highest bidder and changed so many laws to take bribes and for his own benefit. The city also took ownership of so many coop buildings in low income areas in the past few years and resold them for a profit without properly reimbursing the condo/coop owners. This was the worst across the bronx/Harlem.

I don't understand how so many foreign countries can build here and own here. We used to have laws because the city is sinking, we had a curated skyline ect but now its just who has the biggest bankroll. And then these developers leave with cash in hand once they sell and are not accountable at all when their developments fall apart.

My home doesn't look like my home any more. There is not one block in my neighborhood that hasnt been torn up. Youll be hard pressed to find even one where they haven't removed a building to put up one of those empty condos.They come in, buy, even if the building is newish- get permits/pay bribes and tear things up. The biggest punch in the face is when they get affordable housing kickbacks to raffle off a 1 bedroom that you can rent for 3k a month.

We also would always get a lot of people moving here, but post pandemic there has been more new people than ever, which hits harder when you saw how anyone who moved here cause 'nyc is cool' abandoned nyc the second the pandemic hit. Everyone loves the city so much, but almost no one stuck around when it got tough. The majority didn't have loyalty towards the city because they don't see it as a real home and don't work towards community and contributing towards making society here better.

And the most hilarious part is watching these people who just moved here begin to complain "it just isn't the same" and "wow its so gentrified now" like they aren't a symptom of the problem. You miss all the mom and pop shops you had 3 years ago, but you snubbed the buildings we had and got something in a new development that had originally torn up a dozen mom and pop shops. Now you're bitter that it kept happening.

Nyc is nice. But the soul is slowly being erased. They pushed us out. Read the graffiti in Harlem lately, this is the general sentiment.

When they push us out, where will we go?

Well, that's because you actually live there