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 (DIR) Post #Aw7hyHe8Mpb0T6m0oa by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-07-14T11:40:26Z
       
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       Strictly speaking people leaving your city is bad. It's bad for the economy and bad for neighborhoods and safety. But NYC residents do not understand this at all. All most people think about is "maybe I could get their apartment" and how nice it would be if you could do any activity ever and not have 20 other people trying to do it too in the exact same spot. I'm just saying the "people will leave!" admonishment doesn't land at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw7hyIWN7AytBK9KM4 by asakiyume@wandering.shop
       2025-07-14T11:49:58Z
       
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       @futurebird SO SO TRUE. A vibrant city attracts people; a city that people are fleeing are ones where the things you like all gradually thin out...where shops are closed, where buildings stand empty--not a great place to be.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw7iFn4YmKQErGTw8m by rlstone4dems@mastodon.social
       2025-07-14T11:52:30Z
       
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       @futurebird They really don't, myrmepropagandist. Some will go to any lengths to suffocate the competition. In the meanwhile, they are hurting themselves in the process, because those apartments that become available, will be much more expensive.. Everything, will be more expensive whenever there's little competition...
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw7iGlOqU2IdxYQz5c by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-07-14T11:53:38Z
       
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       @futurebird yes. And an urban area with 20M people doesn't care who comes and goes. A million people leaving would amount to just a rounding error in the population count.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw7k39czo4CgxLgvKa by serverlessaoife@mastodon.social
       2025-07-14T12:23:30Z
       
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       @futurebird I've been hearing about New York's impending collapse my whole life and it's never happening
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw7sbh3CqacA5tvoNU by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-07-14T13:59:23Z
       
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       @futurebird reminds me a bit of Stephen Miller's claim that if he ethnically cleansed LA it would make everything great because it would un-crowd the schools and emergency rooms. That's not how it works.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw7ut3Rh2JcKNkn7IG by TheJen@beige.party
       2025-07-14T14:24:55Z
       
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       @futurebird we are moving to upstate NY with plans to spend time in the city ESPECIALLY if Mamdani is elected. I'd love to see it.