Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 4
...and states like Florida and Texas stand to gain.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/business/luxury-real...<i.Within minutes of Zohran Mamdani clinching the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, real estate agents like Ryan Serhant were flooded with calls from clients looking to walk away from deals to buy apartments in NYC. High-end buyers are now looking to purchase property outside of the city.
“My number one job will be moving people from New York to Florida. Again,” Serhant told me. “Based on the results, clients are going to hold off on making any kind of investment in New York City.”
According to a note I reviewed, one client who had made an offer on a Chelsea apartment sent her broker an email minutes after former Governor Cuomo conceded to Zohran Mamdani. “We are going to take a break from looking until there’s more clarity on the mayoral election,” the client wrote.
No. of Recommendations: 2
We still dont know if Sheeple will figure out a way to PRETEND they are for this fella ---but secretly working to get Cuomo or Adams back in.
And ur own resident Sheeple - won't even come close to taking a side.
No way
No. of Recommendations: 7
That was then:
Within minutes of Zohran Mamdani clinching the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, real estate agents like Ryan Serhant were flooded with calls from clients looking to walk away from deals to buy apartments in NYC. High-end buyers are now looking to purchase property outside of the city.This is now:
Bloomberg: Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers
--Sales of luxury homes in Manhattan jumped in November, with buyers signing contracts on 176 homes priced at $4 million or more.
--The increase in sales counters fears that the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor would drive out wealthy residents, with some experts saying "there is no Mamdani effect".
--Despite worries about proposed taxes on millionaires, affluent homebuyers seem unfazed, with the recent stock market rally and generous Wall Street bonuses prompting more wealthy residents to go home-shopping.https://archive.ph/H4f3V
No. of Recommendations: 1
Bloomberg: Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers
Hasn't the RW media been screaming, for decades, that all the rich people will run away from NYC?
Haven't the Libs been screaming, for years, they will leave the US if Trump is elected? Is Rosie O'Donnell the only one to actually do it?
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 6
Haven't the Libs been screaming, for years, they will leave the US if Trump is elected? Is Rosie O'Donnell the only one to actually do it?
I have not left the United States. But I and members of my family are considering it, if the Democrats do not take at least one house of Congress in the 2026 midterms. We even scouted the three Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Price Edward Island) in October.
I scooped up a beautiful dark blue hoodie with large white lettering on the front, being sold at a Nova Scotian restaurant and worn by each member of the wait staff: "Canada Is Not for Sale, but Our Lobster Is." It's a great conversation starter!
No. of Recommendations: 1
Haven't the Libs been screaming, for years, they will leave the US if Trump is elected? Is Rosie O'Donnell the only one to actually do it?
I have not left the United States. But I and members of my family are considering it, if the Democrats do not take at least one house of Congress in the 2026 midterms. We even scouted the three Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) in October. I scooped up a beautiful dark blue hoodie with large white lettering on the front, being sold at a restaurant and worn by each member of the wait staff: "Canada Is Not for Sale, but Our Lobster Is." It's a great conversation starter!
No. of Recommendations: 1
Haven't the Libs been screaming, for years, they will leave the US if Trump is elected? Is Rosie O'Donnell the only one to actually do it?
Robin Wright, Ellen DeGeneress and Portia de Rossi, Gabriel Macht,
Rosie O’Donnell, Richard Gere, Courtney Love, Eva Longoria,
Amber Heard, Lily Collins, Josh Lucas, Pamela Anderson,
Lindsay Lohan, Tina Turner, Shania Twain, Christina Milian,
Melissa George, Fisher Stevens
No. of Recommendations: 1
The problem with emigration is that most nations don't want Americans, unless they're rich. They especially don't want us leaching off their universal healthcare (many require very steep bonds before they'll even consider an American).
It can be done. 1poorkid is thinking about it. She's still young, and a lot of working years left. So, she'll contribute to any system for a long time. Unlike her old-fart parents whose only income is dividends and cap gains.
No. of Recommendations: 3
The first part, hammered repeatedly on FOX 'news' et al.
The second part never mentioned.
I'm just guessing, but...you know...
That was then:
Within minutes of Zohran Mamdani clinching the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, real estate agents like Ryan Serhant were flooded with calls from clients looking to walk away from deals to buy apartments in NYC. High-end buyers are now looking to purchase property outside of the city.
This is now:
Bloomberg: Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers
No. of Recommendations: 1
Tina Turner, Shania Twain, Christina Milian,
Melissa George, Fisher Stevens Turner apparently moved in 2013, so you can't blame that one on Trump.
As it happens, I am watching my DVDs of "Key West" this week. Fisher Stevens played the lead.
Theme from Key Westhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTIzuhyoOhMSteve
No. of Recommendations: 2
Mostly a bunch of washed-up has beens or never wases who can't get decent work in Hollywood any longer, or have some other rational reason for moving that has nothing to do with Trump.
O.K. now how many of the thousands of actors, actresses, and performing artists in the United States DID NOT move overseas because of Trump?
100,000 - 2 dozen is still 100,000 to a rounding error.
You Democrats/Progressives are VERY bad at math, especially statistics.
"Let's use a severe outlier fringe group of liars, hypocrites, losers and/or nut cases to PROVE OUR POINT!!!!"
Nah, relying on the "outLIARS" to make your point is....ignorant.
No. of Recommendations: 7
1poorkid is thinking about it. She's still young, \
After being DOGE'd, my niece moved to Switzerland in September to attain an advanced degree at the U/Zurich. She'd already spent an exchange year in Spain during her BA program.
We spoke at length this morning. She's sufficiently impressed that she's starting the process for an EU passport. Being multilingual helps.
Smart kid.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Turner apparently moved in 2013, so you can't blame that one on Trump.
So you agree ob the other 17 that the People article cited? Mostly women, but Richard Gere? I'm surprised that many moved.
No. of Recommendations: 1
So you agree ob the other 17 that the People article cited? Mostly women, but Richard Gere? I'm surprised that many moved.
Not at all. Have not looked at the others. Turner's name jumped out, because she has been dead several years. Hard to blame her move on Trump being POTUS now.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 1
After being DOGE'd
What happened? Sorry if we mistreated her. We're kinds asshats these days.
No. of Recommendations: 1
So you agree ob the other 17 that the People article cited? Mostly women, but Richard Gere? I'm surprised that many moved.
Not at all. Have not looked at the others.
Well, you asked. You can look at the People article, but you asked.
No. of Recommendations: 6
I have lived in Brooklyn, NY all of my life in a neighborhood which is not only vibrantly multicultural, but offers the ultimate in commercial convenience within walking distance. I have grown up in this sort of environment with my parent's friends. my classmates and my working colleagues coming from all over the world. The cultural options, the commercial diversity and the medical care options in the City, hen taken as a gestalt, are peerless in the US.
I have also had the good fortune to have extensively traveled, both through North America and abroad for over five decades (visiting well over 100 countries and traveling extensively through dozens of them).
I admit to being greatly concerned about the recent changes being made and promoted by US politicians on many different levels, including threats to changing my appreciation of living in the US. Recent changes in NYC politics have threatened to increase the, already overburdensome, taxes levied on my income. I believe, between the two, the specific NYC threat is quantifiable as a tax metric (as I don't believe it will dramatically change the social structure of the city), but the national threat is more existential and difficult to get past a shift in "quality" and being a more esoteric threat. Note that those who did not grow up in the City, but simply moved here as adults likely feel otherwise.
So, here's the problem: There are no locals in the US which can offer the convenience and benefits of living in NYC (though at the cost of high taxes). And, while there are cities elsewhere which can offer parallel diversity of attributes (say, Paris, Singapore, Berlin and a small handful of others), all of them have other factors which would make them more challenging for me personally to live there. So, so far, it seems that staying put is more beneficial than relocating, but I suspect, if the decision was made that I "can't take it anymore", it would involve moving out of the country before moving out of the City.
Those who are now moving out of the City are largely doing so because they don't feel their high taxes are being beneficial to them personally, or have been swayed by "news" in their own silos, but I feel the risks of change in the City's social fabric are way overblown.
Jeff
No. of Recommendations: 1
Hi Jeff,
Or you can live in a "bedroom community"/suburban town in the NYC tri state metro area on a convenient commuter rail or bus line with frequent service into Manhattan. Like I and my family and many other people do.
It's a reasonable compromise if you can handle the high cost of rent or purchasing a home, property taxes, etc.
I seriously don't know how younger generations who aren't making at least six figures could manage it.
So I guess that's part of the "affordability" crisis.
