More people, higher demand, higher prices

And the guys running into Manhattan tend to be very rich too.

They can afford it

So they help drive up the cost of living

But NY is also the most taxed state in the country.

Competing only with NJ (which may as well be NY) and CA

People way underestimate the effect of taxes.

I lived in DC briefly. When you see the price of gas jump 35 cents by just crossing the state line...you figure things out.

NY and NJ tend to pass tax agreements to prevent arbitrage on taxes (which people do anyway). They still have obscene income, sales and property taxes--all which make it harder and more expensive to live.

It's bizarre because NY has a super metropolitan area in NYC but mostly outside of that is almost rural

But they all get affected by the same taxes

Upstate NY hates NYC with a passion.

I can understand why

Ever wonder why Trump seems so angry? He's upstate personified.

Didn't he grow up in Manhattan?

Trump is very much from NYC.

But the anger and seeming lack of agenda at times is very much how Upstate thinks.

Hillary is NYC personified. Corrupt, urbane and sophisticated.

Ah okay. I can see the parallels

Yeah, 2016 was the NYS election.

And as it turns out, the upper midwest is a lot more like Upstate than downstate. So Pennsylvania broke like Upstate.

Any demographer could have said as such.

You have that kind of schism in most areas of North America

Few highly populated urban areas surrounded by tons of rural

Pretty much.

Those metropolitan areas where initially founded due to economic favorability and the satellite smaller cities sprout up over time

https://nypost.com/2018/09/03/tourism-still-suffering-in-town-where-diner-denied-sarah-huckabee-sanders/

Sucks, but thats what it takes I guess. Fuck that place.

I have family there

shits depressing to me tbh

its a nice town

good colleges (VMI and Washington and Lee University)

lots of history (Mostly Civil War related because of VMI)

fuck, the Red Hen is like some upper class shit, just go ANYWHERE else in town

No one wants to go there and be shit on. They'll spend there money elsewhere

Isn't Lexington one of the more conservative cities in VA? WLU is one of the more conservative Universities as I understand.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/sep/03/fire-engulfs-brazils-national-museum-video

I feel like this denial of service shit is going to cause a counter reaction tbh

Wherein those people just get fucked hard by others in their community who bear the brunt of their political snobbery

Im not too comfortable with shit like that becoming the norm.

Where one person's actions hurt the livelyhoods of everyone besides them.