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    Frustrated and struggling, New Yorkers contemplate abandoning the city they love

    Frustrated and struggling, New Yorkers contemplate abandoning the city they love

    High rent and the lack of basic amenities with SARS-COV-2 piling on is forcing people to consider leaving NYC.

    It was laundry that broke Mary Shell. Or rather, the lack of an in-unit washer and dryer in her Brooklyn apartment where Shell, 37, a field producer for reality television, could barely afford her half of the rent before the novel coronavirus pandemic because work had been slow for months. Times are even tougher now that her roommate, also unemployed, has had to move back in with her parents.

    Shell was so financially strapped that she began inquiring about various night-life gigs, only to see covid-19 close all the bars and clubs. ("So that's another job you can't do in a pandemic.") Still, her situation might have been bearable if the nearest laundromat wasn't four blocks away.

    "I just want to be able to do laundry without having to drag it up and down a four-story walk-up or pay someone $40 or $50 to do it for me," said Shell - echoing a gripe of New York City's apartment-dwellers so timeless that "Seinfeld," "Friends," "Living Single" and "Broad City" all have episodes about the indignities of shared laundry facilities. But throw in a pandemic and Shell said the stress has been "exhausting," noting how she recently showed up to her laundromat to find that someone had handled all the clothes she had just washed.







    "Everyone deserves space and basic amenities," she said, lamenting how, in New York, many landlords deem a washing machine a "luxury" item. "It's just insulting to come at us and be like, 'We're going to charge you an extra thousand dollars a month for this standard appliance that's been in American households since the 1970s.' "



    It's enough to make her contemplate leaving, for good.


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    Who saw that coming?

    I mean really...the political class is hopelessly out of touch and the only people who support this are old, retired people who no longer have to make a living and just don't give a $#@!. We have several examples here.
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    I have been to NYC a few times. I don't get it, living on top of all those people, the noise, the smells, the commotion, the cost. I know NYers think that they have it 'over' on us hayseeds. Now, I can at least tell them that "Hey, I have a washer and a dryer."
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    After NYC became the epicenter for Covid, I think it lost some of its appeal, and things like not being able to do laundry conveniently probably seems all that much worse now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I have been to NYC a few times. I don't get it, living on top of all those people, the noise, the smells, the commotion, the cost. I know NYers think that they have it 'over' on us hayseeds. Now, I can at least tell them that "Hey, I have a washer and a dryer."
    I do get it. I lived in NYC for two semesters of school. The food was crazy great and still is. The nightlife second to none. The entertainment, the economy great at the time the city thriving. I would often marvel at how it could be two in the morning....but it looked daylight in New York City. I came to appreciate the Big Apple. But, I'm a country boy. An outsider. I think it appealed to my youthfulness, today, the country appeals more to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I have been to NYC a few times. I don't get it, living on top of all those people, the noise, the smells, the commotion, the cost. I know NYers think that they have it 'over' on us hayseeds. Now, I can at least tell them that "Hey, I have a washer and a dryer."
    I grew up about 30 miles from NYC, 28 years of my life. It was great for the museums and culture in my teens, and the night life in my early twenties.

    And then I grew up.
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