As with the rest of your content, extremely well said Andrew. Unfortunately, you are not just describing New York, you are describing a good portion of the US, as well as Canada, Australia, much of Europe and Britain. When did agency go out of favor? When did collectivism, a notion that fails both the accuracy and efficacy tests, become so mainstream?
I look forward to reading that. I am currently working on a piece on the bear market in agency. Please check out Unintended Consequences and good luck in FL.
Sep 23, 2022·edited Sep 24, 2022Liked by Andrew Gutmann
I have been living here since 2015. You did a good job in that no-mans-land, but it is not safe up there. Time to relax in safety. But don't get used to it, for there are people running down here from New York and New Jersey and as soon as they get here, begin denigrating the Florida way of life/ Gov Desantis and commence to working on its downfall. I have personal knowedge of one such person, and witness others as I am in the hospitality business. Desantis did not win against that degenerate Gillum by a comfortable margin in the race for governor, which says something about the cheating or the stupidity of a great percentage of the voters. We got lucky that Desantis squeeked out a win. Rubio also better win.
I am sure there are certainly those out there looking to change the political landscape, but my hunch is that the individuals and families who have gone through so much to uproot and change their lives are the very people who were always on the more "conservative side" or at the very least the more sober and logical side to begin with. Remember, not every single person living in NY is a Progressive liberal. That's just not the case-so those are the people leaving.
Also making such a huge decision to move directly because of what is going on means your eyes have been opened and you have struggled and you are in a sense upset, so I don't think these transplants (the majority of them anyway) would blindly vote for what they are purposefully leaving.
I know one problem person, who , just as with AOC's mother ( whom I don't know but heard this on the radio) moved Jacksonville out of financial hardship, having been a, ironically, a LCSW, unable to make a go of it in New Jersey. She moves to Jacksonville and devotes her time to berating Trump and Desantis. I , though retired, ended up working for the state government, and there are a handful of very intelligent people who are native to Florida but attribute the low pay and substandard retirement plan ( compared to state worker in NJ or NY) to Republicans. I don't see the sense, for they had the low taxes , and no state income tax, to offset the lower pay for, in some examples, over 30 years of their career.
As you suggested, Welcome to Florida! I have much the same story, grew up on 86th and Madison, Buckley and Milton, spent the last 24 years at 86th and First, brother lived a block from me, etc. etc. I wrote about how my wife and I left NYC here: https://aroundsixfifty.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-last-boy-of-summer.html. Suffice it to say as someone who worked for five years in the Giuliani administration, I don't even recognize what the city has turned into.
If you are in the Sarasota area, say hello! Trust you and your family are enjoying the fresh air of freedom.
Thank you and God bless you for your courageous courage and for fighting this new cancer of progressive wolkism/cancel culture in our society. I will keep up the fight in New York and hopefully get Lee zeldon elected and get all those progressive j_offs out of office.
Oct 3, 2022·edited Oct 3, 2022Liked by Andrew Gutmann
I never thought I'd vote for a Republican, but this time around, I probably will, unless a miracle happens and an Independent worthy of it steps up.
Looks like DeSantis might be the game changer. The hate and intolerance from the Left has polluted the very concepts of "progress" or "liberalism".
It's tough on a middle of the roader, but that's life. I feel no affinity for our government at all anymore, regardless of who is in office, but I will continue to vote, if only to thwart the corrosive, toxic influences prevalent now.
Notice that politics has taken the place of religion for those who claim to hate religion's "Our way or the highway" authoritarianism?
Welcome to the swamp! Sorry your nice city went to hell. Just remember who kept the schools open and businesses open during Covid down here! Remember to vote DeSantis 2022! South Florida minus Miami is like mini-NYC, check out the gulf coast to get away from all that and start fresh
Well said! And welcome to Florida. Sorry about the hurricane, but it's part of the package.
I would encourage you to change the name "Take Back Our Schools" to "Take Back Our Children". I don't know why anyone would want to take back the government monopoly bureaucratic "public" school system - America's best example of totalitarian socialism, from its start.
As always, you are so succinct in your description and feelings of what is going on in our beloved city, schools and education. Thank you for following your heart and having the courage to speak up.
My Sincere Congrats for having the "Guts" to follow your "Guts" and try something new! I hope nothing runs you away and everything is warm and breezy! Welcome to Florida to the Gutmann Family! I hope we do get to meet someday, and I hope NYC will return to the special place it once was, for the entire world's sake.
I would surmise that most of the people moving from places like NY to Florida recognize the problems with progressive run cities and states. Data on new voter political affiliations in Florida seems to support that.
Aww. So you realized you didn’t have the numbers to change education in NYC and left? I wonder why. Mmh, maybe if you had realized that you are not one of those NYers you are praising (as much as you think you are), you’d realize why.
All your text about riots and lawlessness are sheer BS. Any metric on crime in the city remains stable. The city is as alive as it used to be. Tourism and culture thrive.
I am glad you and a lot of other losers finally left the city. Enjoy your Free State of Florida. Don’t try to come back.
"Losers"? At least he's using his name, not initials to identify himself.
And "Don't try to come back"? Sounds like a threat if there ever was one. This is a sign of "tolerance"? Sounds like he's spot on when one American tells another where they can and cannot go in the United States. What, you gonna meet him at the state border armed and ready? Ugh.
Keep your mask on, you hear? In more ways than one.
As with the rest of your content, extremely well said Andrew. Unfortunately, you are not just describing New York, you are describing a good portion of the US, as well as Canada, Australia, much of Europe and Britain. When did agency go out of favor? When did collectivism, a notion that fails both the accuracy and efficacy tests, become so mainstream?
Thanks. Agreed on all points. I have some thoughts about the how and why this has happened which I plan to write about soon.
I have a number of thought on anti colonial and anti Western forces that are also anti family. I write about them and they are in my podcasts. Would be nice if both you and Jeff subscribed. https://open.substack.com/pub/justingaffneysamuels/p/gender-ideology-is-a-communist-and?r=6512g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I look forward to reading that. I am currently working on a piece on the bear market in agency. Please check out Unintended Consequences and good luck in FL.
Thanks - I subscribed. I look forward to reading.
Congrats on your emancipation! Highly recommend synthesis.is for your daughter.
Thanks, and I'll check it out.
I have been living here since 2015. You did a good job in that no-mans-land, but it is not safe up there. Time to relax in safety. But don't get used to it, for there are people running down here from New York and New Jersey and as soon as they get here, begin denigrating the Florida way of life/ Gov Desantis and commence to working on its downfall. I have personal knowedge of one such person, and witness others as I am in the hospitality business. Desantis did not win against that degenerate Gillum by a comfortable margin in the race for governor, which says something about the cheating or the stupidity of a great percentage of the voters. We got lucky that Desantis squeeked out a win. Rubio also better win.
I am sure there are certainly those out there looking to change the political landscape, but my hunch is that the individuals and families who have gone through so much to uproot and change their lives are the very people who were always on the more "conservative side" or at the very least the more sober and logical side to begin with. Remember, not every single person living in NY is a Progressive liberal. That's just not the case-so those are the people leaving.
Also making such a huge decision to move directly because of what is going on means your eyes have been opened and you have struggled and you are in a sense upset, so I don't think these transplants (the majority of them anyway) would blindly vote for what they are purposefully leaving.
I know one problem person, who , just as with AOC's mother ( whom I don't know but heard this on the radio) moved Jacksonville out of financial hardship, having been a, ironically, a LCSW, unable to make a go of it in New Jersey. She moves to Jacksonville and devotes her time to berating Trump and Desantis. I , though retired, ended up working for the state government, and there are a handful of very intelligent people who are native to Florida but attribute the low pay and substandard retirement plan ( compared to state worker in NJ or NY) to Republicans. I don't see the sense, for they had the low taxes , and no state income tax, to offset the lower pay for, in some examples, over 30 years of their career.
As you suggested, Welcome to Florida! I have much the same story, grew up on 86th and Madison, Buckley and Milton, spent the last 24 years at 86th and First, brother lived a block from me, etc. etc. I wrote about how my wife and I left NYC here: https://aroundsixfifty.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-last-boy-of-summer.html. Suffice it to say as someone who worked for five years in the Giuliani administration, I don't even recognize what the city has turned into.
If you are in the Sarasota area, say hello! Trust you and your family are enjoying the fresh air of freedom.
Thanks for the welcome! We're on the east coast of Florida. Spent the prior 12 years on the UES. I'll read your post.
Thank you and God bless you for your courageous courage and for fighting this new cancer of progressive wolkism/cancel culture in our society. I will keep up the fight in New York and hopefully get Lee zeldon elected and get all those progressive j_offs out of office.
I never thought I'd vote for a Republican, but this time around, I probably will, unless a miracle happens and an Independent worthy of it steps up.
Looks like DeSantis might be the game changer. The hate and intolerance from the Left has polluted the very concepts of "progress" or "liberalism".
It's tough on a middle of the roader, but that's life. I feel no affinity for our government at all anymore, regardless of who is in office, but I will continue to vote, if only to thwart the corrosive, toxic influences prevalent now.
Notice that politics has taken the place of religion for those who claim to hate religion's "Our way or the highway" authoritarianism?
Welcome to the swamp! Sorry your nice city went to hell. Just remember who kept the schools open and businesses open during Covid down here! Remember to vote DeSantis 2022! South Florida minus Miami is like mini-NYC, check out the gulf coast to get away from all that and start fresh
Well said! And welcome to Florida. Sorry about the hurricane, but it's part of the package.
I would encourage you to change the name "Take Back Our Schools" to "Take Back Our Children". I don't know why anyone would want to take back the government monopoly bureaucratic "public" school system - America's best example of totalitarian socialism, from its start.
This. Exactly this. Thank you for another voice in seeing what has and is really happening. Sadly we have become the Big Rotten Apple.
Hi Andrew,
As always, you are so succinct in your description and feelings of what is going on in our beloved city, schools and education. Thank you for following your heart and having the courage to speak up.
My Sincere Congrats for having the "Guts" to follow your "Guts" and try something new! I hope nothing runs you away and everything is warm and breezy! Welcome to Florida to the Gutmann Family! I hope we do get to meet someday, and I hope NYC will return to the special place it once was, for the entire world's sake.
Thank you. I hope both those things happen too!
So are the people moving to Florida from New York going to continue their voting that led to the problems in New York. Will people ever learn?
I would surmise that most of the people moving from places like NY to Florida recognize the problems with progressive run cities and states. Data on new voter political affiliations in Florida seems to support that.
thanks for your reply.
Aww. So you realized you didn’t have the numbers to change education in NYC and left? I wonder why. Mmh, maybe if you had realized that you are not one of those NYers you are praising (as much as you think you are), you’d realize why.
All your text about riots and lawlessness are sheer BS. Any metric on crime in the city remains stable. The city is as alive as it used to be. Tourism and culture thrive.
I am glad you and a lot of other losers finally left the city. Enjoy your Free State of Florida. Don’t try to come back.
"Losers"? At least he's using his name, not initials to identify himself.
And "Don't try to come back"? Sounds like a threat if there ever was one. This is a sign of "tolerance"? Sounds like he's spot on when one American tells another where they can and cannot go in the United States. What, you gonna meet him at the state border armed and ready? Ugh.
Keep your mask on, you hear? In more ways than one.
I'm happy to privately. Can you email me?