Submitted by Kyla Collins, Aug 11, 2007 17:15

Hi!

I am one of the black people who have decided to leave NY, after living there for aomost 11 years. I was a teacher there for 3 years! I loved my job as a special education teacher in the Bronx, and would love to have stayed if New York had a better quality of life, and better opportunites for working and middle class families to live in decent housing. I moved down south on JUly 1st of this year, I have a new job as a special education teacher (which was actually about a $7,000 pay-cut) but I am still able to afford a 3 bedroom home rental, with a huge babckyard, some peace and quiet, some fresh air, and the chance to look up at the stars at night!

I am not looking back, I will NEVER go back to NYC to live, when I think about how miserable I was living there, I really for sorry for anybody who thinks "NY is the place to be", and is stuck there. And I hope I am able to convince everynody I know to leave that city. NY can keep all the movie stars, models, and business men, but the working and middle class has got to GET OUT and let people worry about what they are going to do with the City after all the hard workers leave!

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