Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
Read an article about NY the other day saying they reckon about 3 million people have left? All the wealthy ones off to their second homes, Broadway actors etc gone and no students.....is that right? It was mainly about whether NY will become the NY of old again....
3 million sounds a bit much. I'd estimate an accurate figure would be 1/10 of that. The super-wealthy did leave for the country and students are remote learning, so many will have given up on their expensive apartments. But no one I know has left. Not in the last year anyway. I think most people who leave NYC leave because it's too expensive. People had started leaving before Covid began. Everyone in the US that wants a vaccine should be able to get one by the summer. I have no doubt NYC will be back to a million tourists a week again before long.