Personally, I think living in New York City is de facto proof of mental illness. And it turns out, New Yorkers are getting increasingly particular about the hyperexpensive shoeboxes they are so proud live in. Yeah, they are willing to pay thousands of dollars a month to live in a space with the floorspace and amenities of a one-car garage in flyover country; but they are super-picky about the people living in the adjacent overpriced shoebox.
The apartment checked off every box on the buyers’ wish list: airy, gracious, great views of the park. It was in a terrific building, one of the most prestigious on the Upper East Side. The couple moved in, unpacked and tried without success over the next few months to get settled.
In the end, they packed up and moved out, said their broker, Barbara Fox, the founder of the Fox Residential Group, because of a pervasive sense that they didn’t belong. It wasn’t that their neighbors were standoffish, ignored them in the elevator or didn’t invite them to their parties — though in fact the whole thing did come down to parties.
“Frankly,” Ms. Fox said, “they just felt the building had too many Republicans.”
I have met a number of New Yorkers who think themselves super worldly and cultured because of the number of foreigners that come to NYC.
The only real world travel they have done is some islands in the Caribbean, Canada and New Jersey.
If they weren’t talking to their neighbors how did they know they were republicans?
Just Me, the IRS has an automated system that distributes Republican tax returns to all Inner and Outer Party members, they probably just looked it up.
I’m supposing these super-sensitive hot house flower libs felt marginalized by their own weakness & assumed that the building had GOPers in it.
Which happens when reality hits. I’m not a big admirer of NYers but I haven’t had a problem dealing with them over the years. They do tend to be tactless & blunt, which is their way. They tease people who are timid & wouldn’t hesitate to crack an obama joke & say something that wasn’t politically correct.
Yeah, I’m kinda with Marc on this; I think the vibe in the building wasn’t right for them, so it must be because of those loathsome Republicans (after all, we’re libs, we get along with everyone else).
People in NYC might preach inclusiveness but they have mastered segregation in ways that are hard to believe like the health center on a corner with different entrances for people with insurance on one side and the entrance/other name for those on medicare/Medicaid on the other.
too many Republicans. Haaa! Maybe one on 8 people vote for the GOP. They must be delusional.