New York City Isn't the Only Place That Might Soon Have a Socialist Mayor

Sgt Jim Belanus Well said.

Sgt Jim Belanus - I can't see myself ever going back to city life. I like my little thirteen acre piece of land and...it's paid off!

can't argue with that, my closest Walmart is in Canada and I hate the traffic there, next closest is 100 miles away, just right for a scheduled shopping trip. The sooner I get out of the city, the better I like it and prefer my life on the farm we live on

The problem remains that we have a federal government that subsidizes failure -- the Democrats are a bit more blatant about it, but the GOP does the same thing just a bit more subtly. Just about every federal program is designed to reward failure and punish success.

Looks like they are going full on with a Socialist Mayor they just elected.

Lt Col Charlie Brown Western Washington is a moronic mix of every anti-capitalist group available. Western Oregon is the same way.

SGT Mary G. I don't know how some people can afford to live in NYC. (Maybe section 8 housing?) Rent prices are sky high.

Cpl Vic Burk - If NYC is all they know, that is what they are used to. I grew up with my own room, both my kids have their own room and my wife and I each have a study. I did a year in Korea with subways, having a store at the bottom of my building and hated it. I grew up in KS and could never do NYC or Korea.

Cost to rent in NYC seems impossible. I suppose it is Section 8 or at least millionaire income to be able to live in the city.
There's nothing like living outside of the city - either rural or small town.. I lived ~ 7 miles NE of Haleiwa in Hawaii. Postal address was Haleiwa, so I guess it was technically rural Haleiwa, 2bd - bottom floor of a duplex with good neighbors, including on the top fl.oor. In the back yard a clothes line to dry clothes and a banana tree. Driving home down the hill from Schofield toward a beautiful Sunset and stress from the day disappeared.
It is difficult these days to live within a convenient distance to a relatively large city - to make no more than a day of it, when needing to get to the city. There is nothing but highways, strip malls, large malls, airports and industry, in the suburbs surrounding a city and between large cities close to one another.
My only experience is living in Seattle (less than 1 million), and the "Seattle Metropolitan area" (over 4 million), and in Albuquerque (half a million) though ABQ is also a "metropolitan area". Maybe there is more of a line of demarcation in other regions of the U.S. between cities, like there was between Honolulu (over a million) and other areas of Oahu.