At the New York Post Nicole Gelinas’s column is titled “Elite cities are pushing out the working class”:
Global-city residents are struggling not because factories closed and jobs vanished. Nor are they leaving because they’re fed up with crime and other “inner city†woes Trump talks about.
They’re leaving because the new economy where they live has been too good, pricing them out.
The stark numbers come from Trulia, the real estate information firm. In a study highlighted last week by the Wall Street Journal, Trulia analyzed who moves away from the country’s 10 most expensive cities, all on the East Coast or in California.
Answer: disproportionately, the poorest — those making $30,000 or less. But they weren’t exclusively poor: People earning $30,000 to $60,000 also left in numbers that exceed their share of the population.
That’s not just a feature of Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago. I see no other viable explanation than that it’s a strategy. Presumably envious of the cool kids in New York and Los Angeles, his priorities have been projects that primarily benefit the well-to-do while neighborhood schools are closed and homicide and crime rates soar on the South and West Sides.
The not-even-funny line from San Francisco is that the billionaires are gentrifying the millionaires out of town.
Heh. Well, I’ve cast my last vote as an IL citizen. Not that it matters in this state. In a few weeks it’s off to FL for the winter, and then who knows for a permanent residence?? TN, NC, FL ? It’s summers in Door Cty. Great view of the bay. It’s a pity where this state is going. So needless. There’ s always a bright side, though. I’m going to every Hawks game at the Center I can get reasonable tickets for.