Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Cash Jordan" channel.

  1. NYC appeal is pure ignorance. Hicks imagine it's big and shiny and a land of opportunity. Cities exist for economic reasons but if you aren't wealthy are best avoided.
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  2.  @subliteral  Do you own a home or rent?
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  3. Why do you still live there? Welfare?
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  4.  @Moneyline_Mitch  How hard are you seriously trying to move out? An OTR trucker is instantly mobile and can stack enough (drive for a company and let them take the financial risk) to buy in elsewhere. Anyone young can (if they're serious) find a gig that's mobile, from the Merchant Marine and other maritime gigs to the armed forces. People have been leaving the metro area for hundreds of years because they manned up and took action. The younger you leave the better but the lower costs elsewhere mean your assets go farther. Immigrants leave their country and have since long before they got paid to come here. Americans are mostly just afraid of change and use other excuses to stay until they get forced out like in Newark or Detroit after the riots.
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  5. Displaying pattern recognition is haram.
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  6.  @markmilitant  Not hard for me becase it used to be expected for young men to go seek their fortune not rot in their home town no matter how nice it was. My parents planned wisely since the whole point of making one's living in the metro area used to be cashing out then getting as far away as practical to affordable, peaceful space with lower crime, less traffic and vastly lower taxes. They followed my example and retired comfortably many states away. O
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  7. You mean about five decades. Check the signatures on NAFTA to see where the money went and still goes.
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  8. SC has plenty of property for those choosing wisely. That's one reason I like it here. Rural lots are still easy to find outside cities.
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  9.  @greg7811  Contentment is found in wisdom, not in making others rich.
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  10. I left the metro area in 1981. The future was obvious then but people prefer to play silly games so they win silly prizes. That's their right but they should not object to the future they chose.
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  11. Growth is bad because the area was overcrowded sixty years ago. The tax base can be fixed by taxing the rich corporations who are the problem in the first place and require NYC offices because of location.
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  12.  @truthteller5521  Upstate is beautiful, has less traffic by far and much more room. Still expensive compared to other states but not a bad deal by east coast standards. Upstate was where the NYC wealthy had their summer estates since the 1800s to escape the crowding, smog and crime of the city. It's a different better world like rural parts of any other state in the Northeast.
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  13. That warning needs repeating. There is zero reason to want to live in a city unless that makes you personally rich. Why did you stay? You had decades to see the future just like me. The future was obvious fifty years ago.
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  14. Apartments are individually owned structure and have ALWAYS had age issues in NYC because they are PRIVATE property. The solution is a wrecking ball because those old hulks were never built to last over a century.
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  15.  @itrytobeanonymoustoo5289  You can escape it by locating in red states and (this is key) NOT in cities which in the US are intrinsically bad. The wise move is choosing an area with very slow or no growth and unified socially stable demographics, so I did.
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  16. I split the area over forty years ago. Those who don't know better stay because they're afraid to change
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  17.  @rubiconoutdoors3492  Boeing in SC might hire her or Lockheed in Greenville, NC.
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  18. FEAR OF CHANGE. NY used to be a place where people entered the US then spread out but many always got stuck just off the boat.
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  19.  @swizzamane8775  I lived that history and unless you were lucky or rich it was certainly not (except for the music scene which was outstanding). If you're that old how do you not remember walking past stripped cars, the constant arsons, and the Bronx especially being so bad that it was barely lit at night except for street lights? Kitty Genovese ring any bells? I didn't get messed with but I'm 6'2", looked intimidating and had proper street manners (give respect, get respect). The rose tinted glasses of nostalgia for one's youth don't change the normal reality of those days. Remember the Guardian Angels (Curtis Sliwa is still at it, bless him) and why they were considered heroes? I do.
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  20. The city made the deliberate choice to be flooded with migrants so it should help them in every way possible. The VOTERS chose their sanctuary city status, NYC is immensely wealthy and can afford it by raising taxes if necessary. Every bit of this overcrowding is self-inflicted but no one wants to own it or stop it. American VOTERS have decided there is a moral imperative to give away the entire US to outsiders for zero return, massive overcrowding and social displacement of our own lower economic classes. The immigrants just want a better life like the immigrant ancestors of present Americans (even Native American ancestors crossed the land bridge from Asia). The informed adult choice to invite the world into NYC means New Yorkers get to pay for what they voted for (and are free to vote against in future).
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  21. Tell us you know nothing about engineering without telling us you know nothing about engineering.
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  22. The Americans who sold out our nation are an existential threat to Western civilization. That's why pointing that out is punished.
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  23. NYC returning to historic normal. I'm amused anyone doesn't know this. I escaped the metro area when it was much more violent (at least the music scene was decent) forty years ago. This is a normal urban cycle and smart people LEAVE to avoid it. The traditional way was to make your money in the city then cash out and retire elsewhere, even better if you live in the burbs and commute. Unless you're making serious money there is no intelligent reason to live in urban America. You can't fix normal social cycles but you can cash out and enjoy the rest of America.
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  24. That won't last and gets way too much press. Trucking is competitive and businesses will always be able to book loads. Most people know little about how that industry works.
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  25.  @i4ofjaodfivnagjioaweitj  Depends on where you choose to live. I grew up in a very nice north Jersey suburb but those are totally restrictive ( I find the idea of renting a single garage bay obscenely ridiculous) so i left that overtaxed expensive over-regulated corrupt place. I bought cheap old homes needing work in NC then SC over the years and did the work (which is simply like most things a matter of DECIDING to learn ho then making the effort) which saves absurd amounts of money. If you need a new personal capability then choose to add it. Perfectly ordinary people do nearly every task in civilization which means others can learn them too.
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  26. Apartments are prisons like "condos" (a fancy word for apartment) and as that building deteriorates your fees skyrocket. The whole condo concept is a scam and that it works for a few doesn't make it wise when you own a proper house and enough land for to buffer against neighbors (I live on just under six acres). When you do not own the ENTIRE structure you live in you really have nothing because you are at someone elses mercy. Instead, make sure your property is easy for you to care for. For example if you have overgrown trees cut them down before removal gets really expensive, and cut down every tree in falling range of your home. Most people forget to look up then get hit with brutal arborist bills in their old age after what used to be a comfy esthetic feature turns into a threat. Replanting away from structures gets a nice visual barrier far enough out to be safe.
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  27.  @GFS695  Most people are just weak, indecisive and afraid of change. Their ancestors were not or they would not be in NYC in the first place. Anyone can PLAN AHEAD to leave, it's not just jumping in a car and randomly driving, so I did.
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  28.  @MirzaAhmed89  That doesn't mean the rest of the structure does. What masonry or construction trade do you work in?
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  29. If you cannot afford to live in an expensive urban area, don't live there. If you're wealthy, no problem.
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  30.  @mandasity  Any place that suits your skills or willingness to get new ones. There are many ways out but it varies by the individual. Young people can choose from mobile jobs most don't think of like the Merchant Marine, trucking (not easy but it lets you travel then decide where you want to live since it pays well enough), the armed forces, or the trades (community college is basically free, I attended, volunteered at and worked for one). For women nursing and other medical fields always need workers.
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  31.  @matthewdonohue9667  Not viable.
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  32. This is nothing compared to past NY adventures but the title and content get views. If Mr Jordan believed it's finished he'd have left for greener pastures. NYC however has ALWAYS been a bad place if you aren't wealthy but people hilariously cling to it because they're simple and terrified of learning about the rest of the US most of which is far more affordable and has far lower tax rates. Nobody is FORCED to live there so no sympathy here. If you're not stacking Benjamins (a lot of Benjamins) what's the point in dying poor?
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  33.  @edwardharrison9714  That's not a factual response but an emotional one. I defy you to list compelling economic reasons to live in an area where you cannot afford to retire.
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  34.  @user-or6yn8pm3c  It really wasn't and when urban manufacturing left there is no reason to stay. That was 40 years ago. NY isn't really "designed", but just "happened" like most old cities.
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  35. That is a feature not a bug. The US is enormous. NYC was really for people just off the boat before they moved into the interior or the burbs. There is no reason to live there so I left the metro area long ago. People are WEAK and fear change. Smart people made their money then GTFO to live their lives elsewhere. If you don't have money just skip to leaving for places you can afford. My alarm clock is a rooster.
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  36.  @LilyGazou  That was so long ago only the elderly remember it. The mid-1960s were the end and the '70s/80s' the worst in recent memory but it's only attractive to those who don't know better. People grow used to anything when they grow up in a region. Of course almost no one RETIRES in NYC because reality sets in so unless you're too poor to escape it's off to Arizona or the Southeast.
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  37. GOOD. Catering to bums and derelicts (the proper terms before lying about them became social fashion) ruins cities. New York should not be permitted to turn into Calcutta. Enough with the 'vulnerable' nonsense. Adapt or leave. (I left.)
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  38. It's perfect for people who want to work in NY briefly then leave when they make their fortune which they assume they will. New Yorkers will put up with anything to live in New York so they'll go for it.
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  39.  @2MeterLP  Not all rents are NYC tier in rail commute range. There are other options too. NYC isn't the only place people have jobs and succeed. It's as if people forget the rest of America exists.
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  40. An aging population should know better than to WANT to go brick and mortar shopping in cities. I'm old too and shop online saving serious money, time and transportation cost. It's not 1970 any more so stop wanting that. There is nothing worth seeing in malls or stores, and I make my own coffee. I escaped the NY metro area in the 1980s and it's only gotten worse. Clinging out of habit is rather pathetic. Again, I'm old too but the wise adapt. If you live in the suburbs I cannot imagine reason to see the city as a place of interest.
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  41. VOTERS ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY (FTFY). Politicians in the US don't elect themselves. The American public vote them into office. Our politicians mirror the Americans who vote for them.
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  42. The smart play if you are not wealthy is simple. LEAVE. I did long ago. The NY Metro area is a land of high expenses, high taxes, tiny living spaces and LOW DISPOSABLE INCOME. The US is huge and more Americans should explore their opportunities away from the expensive coats. NY will never be fixed. NY has never BEEN fixed. The varieties of bad range from the old days of 1200 murders a year to the current days of high costs, but if you don't LIVE there you won't feel either.
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  43.  @morkallearns781  That is nothow geography works. The US is enormous and the dense growth is very much clustered in urban areas. That's why I don't live in one. Buyers follow herds but that's their fault. There aren't near humans enough to create urban density everywhere in the US. A few hours away from any of the cities you listed there's land for much less. That's why my alarm clock is a rooster.
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  44. Good.The public are the problem. The public make offspring by accident, the females are h0z, the males are elsewhere, the voters vote Democrat because they approve of it all. Escape pays off so I did. New York was never good, just sometimes less bad. The solution is grow up and get out. What one human can do another can do. Leave the cities to those who lack the initiative to improve their lives.
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  45.  @austinbishop7572  What's "sociopathic" about survival? Performing rituals over dead humans does not make them less dead nor does processing them in approved fashion. Everybody feeds the worms. A small local funeral home could handle cremation discreetly so disposal doesn't have to be by mafia methods.
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  46. The voters in a democratic Republic getting what they voted for is hilarious. NYC is a good place to keep Democrats away from where I live now so I approve.
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  47. The Democrat voting base who control the NYC government they VOTED TO POWER asked for this.
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  48.  @samm3114  Holidaying in NYC is insane. I grew up in the metro area and escaped at 21.
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  49.  @maxsoutherland  Architecture you look at doesn't put money in your pocket. What options when everything is expensive? How do you plan to retire when you can't own a home? Being born in the area I don't have a sense of wonder. It's just stuff built by the wealthy for the wealthy and that does ME no economic good therefore no good at all.
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  50. Legal immigrants should warn their inboun successors who want to open a business to avoid clustering in NYC. The US is huge with many eager customers for good food. Store owners are regarded as parasites by the NY public (criminals are a large part of that urban public) but there are many much more affordable locations in friendly communities.
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