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NYC residents: how do you feel about letting Staten Island secede?
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My dad who was born and raised in Staten Island always told me Staten Island is basically like New Jersey.
Maybe if they didn't fucking stop the metro because on person skipped paying you wouldn't be loathed.
This is among the many other incidents that the NYPD has done.
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I get the problem with thinking they're forgotten and out of step politically, but bringing up all the cops living there is odd. I guess they all want to carry on working in NYC.
Ignoring the reality that they aren't ever seceding because lol the mess that would cause to those residents specifically, I'm against it as I enjoy making fun of Staten Island a lot. They just make it so easy. Also my time as a CUNY student, the campus on Staten Island had by far the nicest library I would use a LOT.
I spent more than half my life on Staten Island, and the fact that a not-insignificant portion of all people who live there work for City of New York makes this notion all the more hysterical to me.
Translation: Let us do fucking unworkable crap with a side of grifting and bigotry like in R-dominated parts of America that you read about.
Oh, they've finally adopted the "war on cars" line that conservatives in Toronto have been smashing people over the head with for the last 10+ years.
That's the main reason they were skipped for Newark/Jersey City in. GTA4
I assume this would simply mean they were their own city entirely, and not a part of New York (City), not a new state.
Everything I've ever heard or read about Staten Island makes it sound like it's a really shitty place populated with people who look like this:
Everything I've ever heard or read about Staten Island makes it sound like it's a really shitty place populated with people who look like this:
I been out there for work and it has a pretty large immigrant population and as a borough might has the same poverty issues the other 4 boroughs have. It's also become more liberal the last few years. As a borough they mostly ignore their poverty..... though to be fair NYC as a whole has a ignored poverty issue. It's a legit weird place and they have hardly any side walk which I think keeps it from being being like the rest of NYC even more than the lack of a subway.
My impression of the place is it's where all the old white New Yorkers fled to when NYC stopped being "majority white".Everything I've ever heard or read about Staten Island makes it sound like it's a really shitty place populated with people who look like this:
ah, for some reason my melatonin hangover brain read this as them wanting to leave the state too
Standard Republican behavior: take the benefits of big cities and federal government while constantly whining and threatening them.
I feel like NYC would have made more sense from the beginning if Hudson County NJ was part of the city instead of Staten Island. Granted, Hudson would still have to be a part of NJ, just also in the city, like a bi-state municipality. Jersey City honestly felt more NYC than Staten Island sometimes.
But it doesn't really matter, at the end of the day.
But it doesn't really matter, at the end of the day.
The San Fernando Valley tried this here in Los Angeles a decade or so ago. No one voted for it. Staten Island will remain part of NYC.
And for everyone shitting on Staten Island, please recall that this burrough produced one of, if not the greatest, hip hop acts ever to come out of NYC and they ain't nothin to fuck with.
And for everyone shitting on Staten Island, please recall that this burrough produced one of, if not the greatest, hip hop acts ever to come out of NYC and they ain't nothin to fuck with.
Nearly my entire extended family on my Mom's side is from SI. They all have migrated to NJ over the past several years.
SI Mall is pretty nice. That's all I have to contribute here.
Yoooo goddamn lol
I lived on SI for like 12+ years. Staten Island always felt more like NJ than NYC to me. I'm not sure why a tourist would go there apart from taking the ferry for pictures of the statue of liberty.
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NJ is a weird place. North Jersey is very similar to NYC but if you go to south Jersey it's more like Philadelphia and they even have different accents which I never knew and it blew my mind when I spent a year down there. And then there is central Jersey which I know nothing about it lol