Rural Revolution: Leaving the city

I've been collecting links to articles about people leaving the cities. Here are a few:

• Massive exodus from NYC leaves apartments empty

• New York City Residents Flee In Mass Exodus – So De Blasio Doubles Down With Call For ‘Redistribution Of Wealth’

• Why There’s an Exodus From California Cities

• Escape From San Francisco: Sales Tax Revenue Plunge "Worst In The State" Amid COVID Exodus

• America's Summer Exodus: Thousands Flee The Cities Every Day Because They Don't Feel Safe

• Shaken by summer looting in affluent neighborhoods, some Chicagoans moving away

• New Yorkers are leaving the city in droves. It will be decades before the city recovers(video)

• "A Lot Of People Are Leaving": COVID Shutdowns Have Turned San Francisco Into A Ghost Town

• Mass Exodus: People are Fleeing Democrat Cities

• The Great California Exodus

• Businesses LEAVE PORTLAND After DEMOCRATS FAIL To Secure The Streets For Months

• "She Hasn't Done Her Job": Looting, Riots, & Mayoral Ineptitude Prompt Mass Exodus Of Chicago Residents

• Residents fleeing North are voting against 'policies of blue state America,' economist says

• New York exodus accelerates amid pandemic as some residents head south

• Portland’s Endless Riots Are Destroying Lives and Businesses

• New York City exodus and de Blasio’s response

• California is a failed state. How do we know? They're moving to Arizona in droves.

• Housing boom: Lumber Spikes To Unprecedented Level After Soaring 240% In 5 Months

• "Pent-up Supply" in San Francisco Turns into Record Glut of Houses & Condos for Sale. Prices Weaken

• From 'I love New York' to 'I leave New York'

• Affluent Chicagoans Fleeing Due to Leadership Inability to Calm BLM Violence

• Slammed NYC Movers Turning Away Business As Residents Flee City

• People And Voters Leaving As Democrat-run San Francisco Crumbles

• New Jersey Is Becoming The Most Hated State As Households Flee In Record Numbers

• Bill De Blasio Says NYC Indoor Dining May Not Happen Until June 2021

• Businesses leaving downtown Portland over 'lawlessness'

• "Demand Is Insane": NYC Movers Turn People Away, Suburban & Rural Housing Snagged Up, As Big City COVID-Exodus Accelerates

• Chicago Store Owner Spent $300,000 To Reopen Destroyed Business After Riots, Only For It To Be Struck Again By Vandals

• NY Subway Windows Being Smashed At Such Rate The MTA Can't Get Glass Fast Enough To Replace Them

• Haunting Photos Of San Francisco's Desolate Financial District During Morning "Rush Hour"

• Americans are fleeing the nation's great cities in droves

• San Francisco curbs virus but once-vibrant downtown is empty

• The NYC exodus

• Movers in N.Y.C. Are So Busy They’re Turning People Away

• Urban Exiles Are Fueling a Suburban Housing Boom Across the U.S.

• "White Flight Is Real" - Hollywood's Apocalypse Triggers Mass Exodus

• A Mass Exodus Away From Big Cities On Both Coasts

• Portland Companies Are Fleeing Downtown Area Because Of Black Lives Matter Riots

• All Federal Buildings in Portland Evacuated Amid Car Bomb Threat

• Zillow Exposes Dramatic Exodus Out Of San Francisco Real Estate

• Americans say there’s not much appeal to big-city living. Why do so many of us live there?

• Hollywood's Apocalypse NOW: Rich and famous are fleeing in droves as liberal politics and coronavirus turn City of Dreams into cesspit plagued by junkies and violent criminals

• When Authority Vanishes: Chicago’s leaders have surrendered to vandals

• New York: Is a Great Exodus Imminent?

• Chicago Shuts Down Its Business District Overnight This Weekend Due To Continued Riots And Looting

• "Ghost Town": Shocking Dystopian Video Of NYC Shows An Abandoned And Boarded Up 5th Avenue

• Illinois' Demographic Collapse: Get Out As Soon As You Can

• Lake Tahoe Real Estate Booms 'Like Never Before'

• 49 People Shot In Last 72 Hours In New York As City Hits Its "Expiration Date"

• Real Estate Expert Warns 'Exodus' From Cities Will Last Two Years

• Murders Spike In NYC As Residents Flee For Suburbs

• San Francisco Rent Drops Most On Record As People Flee For Suburbs

• U.S. New Home Sales Plunge To 10 Year Low As Exodus From Cities Accelerates

• Downtown business decides to shut down due to city council's decision to defund Seattle Police

• NYC Has Lost All Population Gains for Last 70 Years – People Finally Waking Up

• Police Warn 'Portland Is Lost' if 'Failing' Mayor and DA Don't Stop Riots

• Chicago Store Owner Spent $300,000 To Reopen Destroyed Business After Riots, Only For It To Be Struck Again By Vandals

• A mad rush for the exits as New York City goes down the tubes

• NYC Is Dead Forever… Here’s Why

• ‘Straight out of a Movie’: Portland Cops CHARGE Antifa shield wall in FULL-ON STREET BATTLE

• Macy’s Looking to Leave Chicago After SECOND ROUND of Mass Lootings – More ‘Protests’ This Weekend

• Seattle BLM protesters demand white people 'give up' their homes

• N.Y. businesswoman: New Yorkers are fleeing because of Bill de Blasio

• BLM mob beats white man unconscious after making him crash truck

• Escape From New York: Wealthy Residents Flee In Droves As The City Degenerates Into A Hellhole

• Lawless NYC: Shootings skyrocket by 140% compared with the same week last year as 76 people are injured in seven days - including a man who was killed lighting a candle for another shooting victim

• Trash Piling Up Over NYC After Sanitation Department’s Budget Slashed By Over $100 Million

• Chicago Alderman says businesses leaving Magnificent Mile

• Oregon State Police Pull Out Of Protecting Portland Courthouse After City Refuses To ‘Prosecute This Criminal Behavior,’ Department Says

• Upper West residents furious after homeless junkies and sex offenders are moved into luxury hotels

• Black Lives Matter defended the Chicago looters, saying looting i their "right" as crime skyrockets across the U.S.

• Maybe if we ignore the riots, they will just go away?

• New York City Is 'Dead FOREVER' Says Proud New Yorker

• Charles Payne on 'mass exodus' from NYC: The snowball is turning into a 'boulder'

• Am I Being Too Upbeat If I Know American Cities Might Never Be the Same?

• NYC Homeless Visibility and Violence Skyrockets Under Mayor de Blasio

• Chicago looting videos spread on social media: See the footage

• Widespread looting in Chicago caught on video after police-involved shooting

• Chaos In Chicago: Bridges Raised To Prevent Gun-Toting Looters Getting Downtown

• Black Lives Matter DEFENDS Chicago Looters, Say Looting Is Their RIGHT As Crime SKYROCKETS Across U.S.

• Seattle Rioters Ransack Amazon Store, Whole Foods, Bank Ahead of Defund the Police Vote

• New York City Rifle Permit Applications Surge by 340%

• Chicago mayor considers property tax hikes as residents fear exodus from city

• People are fleeing leftist run states: fleeing high crime, taxes and leftist policies

• The Economy Is Struggling, but Gun Sales Are Soaring

• Guess What Happened When New York Put Homeless People In Luxury Hotels

• San Francisco – the Last Chapter

• A Stay-at-Home Mom on Her Reasons for Leaving Portland

• Shootings, Murders Spike By Record In Portland After Disbanding 'Gun Violence Reduction Team'

• How America’s future is changing as a result of anarchy in Democrat cities

• Survey: Two in Five New Yorkers Want to Leave the City 'Because it’s turning into a sh*thole'

• Flight from Democratic stronghold cities accelerates; disease transmission, violence and hostile governments helps lead to exodus

• More than 60 overnight calls to 911 couldn’t be responded to right away because of Portland rioters

• The Death of New York City

• Wrecking the American Dream. Yes, suburbanites, Democrats plan to destroy your community

• Democrats Are Destroying Their Own Cities, and it all Makes Perfect sense

• Seattle Defunded Police. Now Businesses Are Leaving, and Rioters Still Aim Explosives at Cops

I'm sensing a trend here. Aren't you?

23 comments:

AnonymousAugust 17, 2020 at 6:02 PM
This is the beginning of the big fleecing of the tax payers. For example "defund the police" really means give politicians the funds to distribute as they wish.
Gorges SmytheAugust 17, 2020 at 6:10 PM
That's what happens when you have communist mayors and governors who won't let the police do their job.
AnonymousAugust 17, 2020 at 6:58 PM
My husband retired from 35 years in law enforcement in California in March. Thank God is all I can say.
Toirdhealbheach BeucailAugust 17, 2020 at 7:56 PM
I am interested in the fact that if this is truly a trend, the impacts of it cannot be concealed forever. What, I wonder, will they be able to say?

Atlas is beginning to shrug.
Bigus MacusAugust 17, 2020 at 9:55 PM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919,
AnonymousAugust 18, 2020 at 3:01 AM
I'm afraid it is not the Democrats that are in power and haven't been for the last 3-plus years.

We were promised infrastructure renewal and a health care plan. Trump was given the recipe to handle a pandemic that he never used (Obama's Ebola-2 dead....Trump 170 and counting dead), tax cuts for the average man and not trillions going to the top..etc..etc... Put the blame where blame is due.

As long as we are under the influence of this president, the trend is to end up in the ditch. This whining and passing guilt gets tiresome. J.
AnonymousAugust 18, 2020 at 4:54 AM
Unfortunately they will bring the same ideologies with them that caused what they are leaving.
AnonymousAugust 18, 2020 at 12:08 PM
They should stay. They asked for it by voting them into office. Then the majority are going to want “compensation” in the form of currency and other goods when they find that they can’t grow so much as a bell pepper or tomato plants.
Idaho Farm GuyAugust 18, 2020 at 12:34 PM
Having moved to a small farm in rural Idaho almost ten years ago, I can't say that any of this destruction comes as a surprise. However, the disintegration of these cities will have a negative impact on our nation - no matter where we live. We would do well to pray for peace and healing.
AnonymousAugust 18, 2020 at 1:15 PM
You know what comes next? The stores, small mom and pop stores and big grocery chains, will abandon these cities where the politicians not only did not protect them but instigated and approved of the riots. Then the left will declare that the food desert that will result from this is "racist" and the fault of whites and more proof of systemic racism.

So do black lives matter to these activist/rioters/looters?
AnonymousAugust 19, 2020 at 1:34 AM
Your only hope, at this point, is to vote TRUMP 2020. And vote directly at the polls. We can't trust mail-in voting.
You my think you're safer in rural areas but "they" are coming after you, in rural areas. With no police to protect you.
Anna
AnonymousAugust 19, 2020 at 10:33 AM
They are showing up by the carload in Rapid City, SD. NY license plates - want a house NOW. 3 Quarters, 480 acres were pulled off an auction, selling early for an obscene amount of money next to us. "A Land Investment Company" is all we know. Eastern SD is having a land rush from Minnesotans. Don't sell your place before you have the next one secured..Natokadn
PACNW RightyAugust 25, 2020 at 6:00 AM
The most worrisome part of this will be these folks will bring their politics with them. As imported progressive policies have damaged Oregon and Washington, the same will happen to suburban areas that surround these deteriorating cities.
Rich KozlovichSeptember 6, 2020 at 8:00 AM
Partice,

Thanks for doing the work to put this list together. I will be linking them in my blog, and a link back to you.

Best wishes,
Rich

Monday, August 17, 2020

Leaving the city

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