Thoughts on New York City?

[Augie]

7 hours ago, SoTier said:

 

Woodstock, Kingston, Saugerties are about 2 hours from NYC, not "an hour or so".  There have always been people commuting to NYC from these areas but probably not as many as there are now.  Again, this kind of thing is happening all around the country outside major cities.  All of Northern Virginia has become a Washington, DC suburb, out as far as Fredericksburg into the horse country beyond.   The outer suburbs of cities like Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, and Chicago stretch out 50-100 miles from these cities.  Commutes are even worse in California.   Remote work since the pandemic has exacerbated the transition of exurbia into suburbia. 

 

Your claim that recently soaring property values have increased taxes for long time property owners is not accurate.  In NYS, recent price increases are not going to impact long time residents' tax bills until there's a general property reassessment  or unless the owners did remodeling.   It's more likely that new home buyers would see their taxes raised because they paid more for their properties than they would have last year.  Technically, local assessors in NYS aren't supposed to do that but sometimes they do.   An increase in population and demands for new or improved services (example might be establishing a municipal water system to replace private wells or paving more roads) can increase taxes for long time owners, but that's because tax rates increase and it applies to all taxpayers.   This is something that happens whenever there's large scale new development in a formerly largely rural area -- from the Catskills to the South Carolina Low Country to small towns outside Nashville.

 

 

 

Six people were killed and twelve more were wounded in downtown Sacramento, CA yesterday.  Last week, a twelve year old kid in South Carolina shot a classmate.  Violence ain't just a NYC problem.

 

 

Spoken like somebody who thinks he is exempt from having his rights violated by the police or by some government entity just because he's never had his civil rights violated.   FYI, it can happen to you even if it's a minor thing and you are the most upstanding citizen. 

 

We had a townhouse between Buckhead and Midtown in Atlanta that we rented (for half the market rent, I may add) to our son and DIL.  They wanted out and bought a house in the burbs because they didn’t like the increase in hearing gun shots and drag racing. Buckhead had an initiative to secede from the Atlanta metro area to beef up the fight against crime. It is very real! (They are also starting a family, so need the “family home” with a yard, etc, but either way they were getting OUT.) 

 

Atlanta is bad, but NYC is something entirely different. There is only ONE NYC and I don’t know how they compare, but I wanted to mention NYC again because I want to stay focused on the topic.  NYC.