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I could never live in NYC (sh.itjust.works)
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"I could never live in NYC" Ya I know Brenda, I take the subway with a chair I just bought, and you don't leave the house. We are not the same.
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[+] -26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I could never live in NYC… the homelessness problem is too widespread in pretty much all of US cities.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm confident whatever you are imagining is not the daily lived experience of new york city. People picture like times square in 1973 on new years eve and also classic film the warriors. Go look at like park slope on google street view (or another similar service of your choosing).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I went through Penn Station more times than I would have wanted. Arriving and leaving from there twisted my stomach in a knot, I wouldn’t be able to handle it every day.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you live here you don't really go through Penn station. That's a major commuter hub.

    I've lived here for years and only go there if I need to go to NJ transit for some reason (which isn't often).

    That's like thinking all of NJ is Secaucus train station, or all of someplace else is just the airport. It's not representative.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    “There is a homeless problem, look there”

    “But if you don’t look you don’t see the problem”

    Rents in NYC are rising higher than salaries, squeezing out the poorer segment of the population. This, between other symptoms, generates homelessness. That’s what I see in NYC.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They said the problem was "widespread". I'm saying it's not like everywhere you look, but it feels worse than it is if you only go to the high traffic areas where homeless people go to beg for help.

    Cost of living is rising higher than salaries everywhere. This isn't unique to New York.

    The fact that homeless people exist is a poor reason to avoid New York, in my view. People act like you're going to be wrestling with the homeless every day.

    We should do more than ignore the homeless, but that's a separate conversation.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The homelessness epidemic is a problem everywhere in the US. You just notice it in cities because of the population density.

    Cape Cod, the famous summer vacation hotspot south of Boston, has the highest rates of drug addiction and homelessness in the entire state. The same is largely true of any vacation area, actually. They often have the highest rates in their state due to high CoL and poor job opportunities outside of low wage jobs in the tourism industry (all of which are seasonal jobs as well, meaning they close when the tourists leave).

    But out of sight, out of mind.

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