They say this as though it were a good thing

Leaving Manhattan

Rich New Yorkers flee high taxes

Codina estimates as many as 1 in 4 of the residential units for sale in his community of 60,000 will be purchased by New Yorkers, expanding the permanent ex-New Yorker population by another 5,000

Having despoiled their city with demands for bountiful social services, excessive regulations and the dissolution of the police force, the wealthy move on to other states to repeat the process. These people, and their counterparts fleeing California and the Pacific Northwest are no more sophisticated and far more dangerous than the primitives practicing slash and burn agriculture in Third World cultures.