Wait. Are you telling me that people would be willing to pay a small premium for living in a place that isn't a shit hole, surrounded by content people who aren't feeling murderously angry about crappy circumstances beyond their control?
Huh.
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How ever shall the millionaires afford that?
Cuomo said he'd move to Florida, hopefully the supposed Mamdani effect at least works on him.
For most people, but especially for the rich, a liveable environment is far more important than a bit more money. Nobody who has saving money as their first priority is going to be living in New York anyway. But a liveable city that's safe, fun to be in, and that you can move around in without fearing for your life, those are far more important to most people.
So I'm not surprised that Mamdani's victory is drawing more people to NY.
This is obvious when you think about it even a little bit. You can't buy safe streets.
What's the point of being ultra-rich when you have to step outside into Phnom Penh and watch how toddlers collect scrap?
Literally if I was loaded I'd love to live in NYC despite it being expensive. Because (and I can't stress this enough) YOLO. Spend your life enjoying it, not saving up every single penny. And in this case, the taxes can contribute to enjoyment through increased safety and other livability factors.
They’ve been saying that wealthy people would leave nyc for at least 20 years. Fear mongering.
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I mean, it sounds like the number of millionaires leaving did go up. It's just that there are plenty of other ones willing to replace them.
These may have also been homes already up for sale.
After decades of posing socialism as the root of all evil it is remarkable how it's really not.
About time. We've seen so much evil that's unconnected to socialism.
Don't celebrate too early. The last thing they want is an experiment in Socialist Democracy, and if it is forced on them, like this, they will do ANYTHING to make it fail.
Mamdani's got a rough road ahead, so we'll have to help him resist all the ferocious propaganda and interference he's going to face. We have to have his back, and make this experiment successful, so it can spread across America.
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...as much as they campaign against it, wealthy people understand that when the chips fall, the "fairest of them all" always wins...they will steal and cheat as much for as long as they can, but most understand the guillotine...this is not new...this has been happening for about, quick and check my post history, 4000-3000 years...we decided pyramids were more effective and pretty...
He's been in office for two weeks and hasn't fixed all the problems yet!!! What a sham! I'm totally voting Republican now!!!
..... People are fucking idiots
He's not even in office until January , so anyone sincerely saying that has an extra layer of idiocy.
And if it WAS a real thing, it would mean fewer people in NYC, which would make it more affordable, would've been positive either way.
Probably most of those stating they’d run away already had Florida or other avoid-NY-taxes out of state license plates on their cars before the election.
No one is leaving NY because Florida does not have decent pizza or italian sandwiches.
Is there even a museum in Florida without fake animals?
They don't want to be big fish in small ponds, they want to be big fish in big ponds, hence why Indianopolis or Cincinnati or whatever other big but not NYC big towns didn't see billionaires rushing in.
Elon Musk and Tesla had already proven that wealthy glorified welfare recipients cause no harm when they leave a state.
It would've been hilarious if they rushed to Cincinnati
NYC billionaires traditionally love chili on spaghetti.
Don't knock it until you try it. It's one of the few meat foods I kinda miss.
😂
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escape to Florida
Lol
Why would any rational person move to Florida? Lmao.
Not that it's a good state to be homeless, but at least you don't freeze in the Winter.
Maybe if you own a business and want the freedom to dump your toxic waste directly into water sources. Or if you sell meth.
Are you telling me that people don’t want to move to the FREE STATE OF FLORIDA?
They know that whatever their money religion's ministers say, at street level, NYC will be a great place to live, if Mamdani gets his way.
Rich people fleeing because of a "socialist^TM^" politician in power is a complete nonsense since FDR. Even Warren Buffet called it out. Sure, some leave, but it is usually just a handful who do.
I also think that many rich people decided to stay and buy property in New York is because they actually know that Mamdani is a more stable economic hand than GOP states such as Florida. Plenty of tycoons low key wish for America to "Make America, America Again" because they are anxious of Trump's chaotic economic policies; so much so that JP Morgan CEO threw his support on Mamdani, the same CEO who implored people to divest away from the US.
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Massachusetts made a rich people tax and more rich people moved in
What a surprise
That's too bad
It's good for the well-off to be pro-socialism.
lmao these rich fucks WANT to pay more because it's a status symbol to other rich people that they can afford what others cannot
you have to be so goddam stupid to believe anything they say ever
I'm reminded of the rich AF Hollywood supposed leftists that were saying they'd move to Canada if Bush won his first term. And then his second term.
I mean, under W? Why would they move to Canada, exactly?
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