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elizabeth-cooper t1_j1zqllh wrote

Maybe this country would be in better shape if the coasts weren't such brain drains and the smart people would go back to where they came from after college.

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Wowzlul t1_j1zqxi7 wrote

I'm very glad that this city was built by people who didn't think like you.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_j1zs0l5 wrote

This city was built by immigrants, not transplants.

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myfirstnamesdanger t1_j2010ph wrote

So in your opinion people can leave where they grew up and relocate to NYC only if they grew up outside of America?

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elizabeth-cooper t1_j20235g wrote

Not none, but most.

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myfirstnamesdanger t1_j2050oe wrote

This is kind of a weird take but I'm curious... Was I allowed to move from a built up, upper middle class coastal city to NYC? My hometown is pretty prosperous without me there.

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dust1990 t1_j20s0jw wrote

Immigrants are transplants. Transplants are immigrants.

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MarbleFox_ t1_j241t46 wrote

> not transplants.

My guy, what the fuck do you think immigration is?

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yuriydee t1_j207lyj wrote

Maybe the other parts of country should do more to keep smart people there? Maybe think about why everyone is moving to coastal cities.....

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Dracomarine t1_j20sna5 wrote

Maybe if y'all made an effort to not make the interior a festering shithole, people would stay. Also what happened to the whole freedom thing? Looking forward to the cope reply

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OhGoodOhMan t1_j20gkkf wrote

And how exactly do you propose we go about that?

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Wowzlul t1_j20i7f2 wrote

Internal migration controls. Maybe give everyone a passport. If you don't appeal to my particular tastes and biases, if I can make prejudiced judgements about you and put you into a box I don't like then you don't get in.

After all, you didn't build this place. I did. Well, people a long time ago did and I'm pretty sure they'd like me instead of you. Oh you did build something here? Well it doesn't count. We can't allow this place to change. It's perfect as is and you don't get to touch it.

I'm a Local and you are not allowed.

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ByronicAsian t1_j2byjuk wrote

> Internal migration controls.

That's basically the Chinese hukou system....which had some serious issues even before the recent reversal of reforms.

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Wowzlul t1_j2c1cjd wrote

I know I'm trying to demonstrate how absurd and totalitarian an idea it is to limit people moving to the city from inside the US.

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Sharlach t1_j21f4jd wrote

People don't return to the places they're from because they're shitholes. How about those flyover states focus on becoming desirable places to live and raise families instead of banning abortion and trying to bring back jim crow?

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