Fleeing New York Entirely

Thanks housing market!  Here’s a headline from today’s New York Observer:

The Graying of the City: Young Families Fleeing New York

"It’s not even a question of, they can’t afford what
they want,” Mr. Kotkin, a Brooklyn native who lives in Los Angeles,
said of younger New Yorkers today. “When it becomes a situation of,
instead of an apartment in Manhattan, you’re paying a lot for an
apartment a 40-minute subway ride to Manhattan, you start to think, ‘Is
this worth it?’

More young New Yorkers are shouting, “No!”

Maybe they just need a good weekend away from the city…