anyway, here's a thought: there's a lot of places like Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Detroit...
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that relied heavily on industries that have gotten smaller over the years for many reasons, good and bad.
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and a lot of ppl from those places move to other places that are booming, like ATL, Dallas, Houston, Cali...
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and obviously the US is all one country, but what if ppl from NYC just felt like NYC should look out for NYC
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they did things like... making it easier for ppl currently in the city to stay and hard to move in.
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super strict rent control laws, benefits for long-term citizens, extra taxes on new residents...
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you could argue that NYC has a BIG immigration problem from other places in the US---HUGE strain on housing
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MAJOR issues with long-term residents being pushed out, competition for svc industry jobs...
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so should NYC fight against more ppl coming in? Should they care about Youngstown and Pittsburgh and Detroit?
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or should they look out for number 1? I could totally see an NYC mayor come in on a populist campaign...
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and basically do a bunch of shit like that to make things better for native NYers and harder on the transplants.
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