Escape From New York
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I’ve had two different customers this week that are NYC Refugees. They left New York during the height of the panic and can’t bring themselves to go back. Both have bought new homes in Western Virginia (going out by Delaplane, Marshall, etc...) both were very nice people but you can tell that living in NYC in April and May has damaged them. The one customer admitted the thought of getting into a subway makes him have a panic attack.
There are going to be long lasting repercussions from this...
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I believe it.
Though I swore off the subway post transplant. I think I cheated once. Though I have taken subways in other cities outside the US. But that tends to be when they’re not packed.
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@lufins-dad said in Escape From New York:
both were very nice people but you can tell that living in NYC in April and May has damaged them. The one customer admitted the thought of getting into a subway makes him have a panic attack.
There are going to be long lasting repercussions from this...In what way? I'm not sure I'm correctly interpreting what you're implying.
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I assumed he meant the pandemic doesn't end on the day Mr. Biden says "take off the masks".
Some people hate the mask and never want to see one again, the mask is already gone.
Others are so frightened that they won't lose the mask for years, maybe never.
Maybe Mr. Biden will never say "take off the masks". Masks have been very good for him.
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@aqua-letifer said in Escape From New York:
@lufins-dad said in Escape From New York:
both were very nice people but you can tell that living in NYC in April and May has damaged them. The one customer admitted the thought of getting into a subway makes him have a panic attack.
There are going to be long lasting repercussions from this...In what way? I'm not sure I'm correctly interpreting what you're implying.
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A lot of people and money that is fleeing the city. There is going to be long term fiscal implications for the city and you can expect a major real estate correction. A lot of people are going to suffer financially.
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On a personal level, I’m not sure any of us can comprehend what it was like to live in that city in April of 2020. It had to have been like living in a horror movie. These people are are suffering from PTSD.
Me/rry/Christmas
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@lufins-dad Yes and yes. Especially to point #1.
The last 8 months or so, I've essentially gone from being a piano restoration guy that also does some piano moving, to a being piano mover that visits his shop just long enough to grab another dolly.
Real estate prices locally have gone through the roof as tons of people from New York and Boston have moved into CT suburbs.
