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Originally posted by xo_kathy
And it was such a different town since I'd been in 1993 (due to Guiliani who "real" New Yorkers will tell you was the downfall of the city!
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NOT TRUE!!! I'm as real as they come, and I love living in what is now the safest big city in America. The only thing that sort of changed for the worse is Time Square. It used to have lots of porn and crime, which was bad. Now it is sterile, and its redevelopment has been called the "Disneyfication of Times Square" which is also bad. But this was being planned since the 1970s.
One of the reasons that real estate in Manhattan (and Brooklyn) has gotten so expensive is that people aren't leaving. The best and brightest in America come to Manhattan. They used to start there careers here, and then move back to be near their families.
Now that it is so safe here, leaving all that NYC has to offer is like moving to a living death. Everyone that I know who has moved back to their hometowns, only did so to raise their children by their family, or because their career never enabled them to afford living here while raising a family. Some planned on moving back, but can no longer bring themselves to do so.
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