Been watching a MacBook repairman for a while, and found this gem. Essentially the city will become empty because:
Everything that people would stay in NYC to do and be worth the taxes is closed due to quarantine,
Taxes are terrible
Foreign wealthy people (probably mainly CCP) own hundreds, if not thousands of buildings that they don’t care to rent because it’s just there for tax writeoffs.
Just food for thought. Ideally, my solution to this would be a vacancy tax for commercially coded buildings, but I’d love to know if anyone had a better idea than that. Oh, also for Congress to pass a law stating foreigners aren’t allowed to own more than a certain amount of property in the whole country, if they can own any property at all.
Gotta be NZ residents... So for example, my employer who bought the business and a few more, a couple years ago, is Indian, lives in India, runs the place from India... But has dual citizenship. Comes back to NZ maybe every 6 months. The shit sounds a lot better on paper than it actually is.
You also get "dual citizenship" Chinese and Indians who buys a shitload of houses and businesses and only "rents" and employs his countrymen. So essentially foreign owners who use a dual citizen to buy it for them, then when they have been here long enough to get citizenship (since our immigration policy is fucked) they just "buy" it off their puppet.
And then throw in "family class/reunification" chain migration, and their huge extended families ... Only the first one has to pass any points system, or know the language and culture, the rest can just sleaze on in, even regardless of criminal history (at least in Canada.)
I honestly can't believe it wasn't already illegal for foreigners to own property in virtually every non-Caribbean Western country.