I grew up in NYC. As a kid, I remember the place when it was dangerous, dirty, and shitty. I was in high school during the Dinkins years when there were increasingly aggressive homeless people on EVERY block. It was bearable back then, because in spite of the shittiness, there were fascinating people who lived there. As a young adult, I loved being able to walk into a bar, sit down, and talk to whoever was drinking. You'd meet the most fascinating people with a wide range of incredible jobs. There was always something to learn. Then the new generation moved in.

Now, when you walk into a bar in NYC (which you probably can't now anyway), you're going to talk to some low IQ wannabe Cardashian who somehow fumbles their way though a $120k a year job doing nothing, creating nothing, never growing mentally beyond the age of about 14.

A lot of the interesting old architecture is gone; torn down in favor of glass monstrosities that serve as dwellings for the vapid wastes of space who have taken over the city.

In spite of Sharpton's rabble rousing, there was a lot more racial harmony in the NYC I grew up in. My friends were of all colors, religions, and backgrounds. Now, the city feels segregated; rich stuck up white people thumbing their noses at the blacks and hispanics who are relegated to the public housing a few blocks away, if they can even get in there.

The people who worked for a living all seem to be gone. Many of the NYC police went from being worthy of respect to being an over sensitivity-trained diversity hire laden joke, worthy of the disdain of any real New Yorker who works for a living.

The old NYC could come back from something like this, because it had a solid foundation. That foundation has eroded so badly that it is almost non-existent at this point. Couple that with the bandwidth that allows us to work from anywhere and that's the final nail in the coffin.

NYC is gone for decades and will look more like Detroit every day until it's inevitable collapse. Only then, MAYBE, will there be a resurgence.