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The real affordability crisis is in the cities where Democrats rule

Sometimes people just vote with their feet. And a new poll out this week suggests many New Yorkers might be willing to do just that.

The Marist poll reveals that one in three New Yorkers are planning to leave the State in the next five years.

After the week we’ve just had I suppose you might sympathize with the 7% of respondents who said they want to leave because they’re fed up with the weather.

It hasn’t been much fun trying to get around the streets as Mayor Mamdani´s paid volunteers made their unsupervised efforts to push the snow around. At the cost of $30 an hour per shoveler.

But the main reason people say they want to leave New York is that eight out of ten respondents say the city has become unaffordable. Due to daily living costs, rent, taxes and more.

Yet here is the strange thing. The Democrats keep talking about the cost-of-living crisis in New York. But they talk about it as though it has nothing to do with them.

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Don’t we have a Democrat Mayor? And wasn’t the last Mayor a Democrat? And the one before him?

Governor Kathy Hochul is a Democrat. As was the Governor before her. And the Governor before him. And so on.

So when the people in charge talk about New York’s cost of living crisis, why do they talk about it as though it is like a snowstorm? Some sort of natural disaster? Or even a........

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