Oh, maybe you already saw this at Curbed on Wednesday... when they reported on the data that White Pages-style search engine Spokeo came up with regarding who is moving to NYC.
Here is Spokeo on what numbers they crunched:
Below is the Spokeo Mobile Migration Map, a visual representation of the most common out-of-state mobile numbers found in your selected city. All numbers are standardized to account for population. By identifying the origin of a mobile number and matching it to address records, Spokeo has pinpointed migration and settlement trends throughout the United States. The different colors represent the home states of transplants. Below the map, you’ll find a list of the top 20 U.S. cities from which new residents in [NYC] have relocated.
And here is that map... with New Jersey and Connecticut leading the way...
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... and for the cities... Washington, D.C.! San Francisco!
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Reaction on the survey from Virginia K. Smith at Brooklyn Magazine:
I’ve been saying for a long time that all the “GO BACK TO OHIO!!!” venom aimed at faceless gentrifiers is a crock. The real enemies are the hedge fund types or parent-bankrolled transplants from nearby wealthy suburbs, the kind of people who think condos are a perfectly nice place to live...
New Yorkers bitching about Jerseyites (& vice versa) is a local - if not exactly artisanal! - and longstanding beef. The tensions between NY and NJ regarding resources and finances have existed for well over a century, clearly predating the hypergentrification of post-2001. Look at the Port Authority!
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot about this survey that's suspect...but calling NJ natives "gentrifiers" (without looking further to see if their families actually moved from NYC in the past, or if they still have relatives here) is fucking ridiculous.
On behalf of all Wisconsin expats not operating precious upscale restaurants in New York, I'd like to say: In your FACE hatas, and you can smell our dairy air. Y'all probably came from some nice suburb in the Dirty Jerz or Hedgfundlandia anyways.
ReplyDeleteThe Ohio bashers never had reason on their side anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe kids may come from Jersey, but I bet their parents came from OHIO.
ReplyDeleteFirst off allow me to say that I am all for cheese and dairy and the love of sports. The problem with the Wisconsin transplants is the loud, stupid Packer fans that walk around torturing us on Sundays in the Fall and Winter.
ReplyDeleteDo they not have anything else else going on in their lives other than to bring that retarded fanfare all the way to the streets of NYC?
Oh, and one more thing:
ReplyDeleteWhere else are kids from Nj supposed to go?
Kind of a no brainer.
It's like getting all up in arms or perplexed that people from Maryland and Virginia move to DC.
IzF, Typical Bears response.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see that the candle of brotherly and sisterly love is still burning bright in this great land. One people under God etc. Let us hope that the foul breath that makes the candle flicker will become sweeter, but alas wisdom itself can’t outwear ignorance.
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