NYC relocations accelerating at ‘substantial’ pace, local movers say
Moving experts say they have not been able to keep pace with demand

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By Brittany De LeaFOXBusiness


Americans leaving big cities for more spacious areas and younger millennials moving out of dorms and back home created a moving business boom. FOX Business’ Kristina Partsinevelos with more.

Even as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has leveled off in recent weeks, moving companies say they remain inundated with requests from people leaving New York City.

Big Apple-based moving company Oz Moving, for example, told FOX Business that the volume of moves continues to rise at a “substantial rate” – in addition to a “drastic” spike in storage compared with years prior.

The company has seen an average increase in quote requests of 30 percent year over year.


By July 15 Oz Moving was booked to capacity for the remainder of the month, and while it is always busy over the summer, 2020 marked the first time in 27 years the company was unable to take on additional jobs so early on.

Similarly, Roadway Moving President Ross Sapir told FOX Business that it is the busiest summer he has ever had.

“Insanely busy and for the last 3 months we couldn’t keep up with the demand,” Sapir said.

To accommodate movers who have already left Manhattan, Oz Moving even recently introduced an “absentee move,” which employees can carry out when residents are not in their apartments.

The company said it is quickly becoming one of its most sought-after services.

Both Roadway Moving and Oz Moving told FOX Business in May that the pandemic had caused business to boom in New York City, describing a panicked flight out of the densely-populated metro.


Both continue to detail an exodus, and other statistics confirm heightened interest in leaving.

According to the most recent data from United Van Lines, between May and July there was a 95 percent year over year increase in interest in moving out of Manhattan. That compares with a 19 percent increase in moving interest in the U.S., overall.

The top destinations for people who moved out of New York City between March and August were Florida and California – which together comprised 28 percent of relocations. Texas and North Carolina made up 16 percent of moves.

New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo joked during a recent press conference that he has been bribing his friends to return to Manhattan with promises of free dinners and drinks.

“We’re trying to get people to come back,” Cuomo said. “They’re not coming back right now.”


Still, some local real estate experts say perception of the issue may be overblown.

Lindsay Barton Barrett, a real estate broker with Douglas Elliman, told FOX Business that some of the data and stories are skewed by the fact that in-person showings only recently resumed in Manhattan, while they were allowed in other areas weeks earlier.

“The reality is that there are always people in New York selling their homes and leaving,” Barrett said. “There are certain sectors of the market that are still active and other sectors of the market that are on hold.”

Barrett noted that some people may have temporarily left the city – with plans to return – which explains a dramatic spike in storage requests.

As previously reported by FOX Business, a big factor that may play into the Manhattan real estate recovery is whether schools reopen. Parents often relocate to be closer to their children’s school.

 

I thought it was interesting that many of them are moving to California. Over the past couple of years California has seen an exodus of hundreds of thousands of people due to the high cost of housing here. We have more people leaving than we have moving here. So many, in fact, that Texas has joked that they don't want any more people from California moving there.

 

New York is a great place to be from. Far away from.

 

Who in their right mind wants to live in New York City anyway.

 

It's way too close to New Jersey.

 

If'n i's kant opin my's bacdor an kill me somethun fur supper, I ain't gonna be livin thar...

 

Been seeing a lot of New York plates over here in the metroplex

 

We're fucking lucky our borders are closed at the moment.

There's been a tsunami of applicants to move here (from US) for the last few months ,
and reports are its still rising.

They might have to call back a few Jumbo's
out of retirement , to cope , when they do open the border ,

hopefully by end of 2022

 

@Truthful 1

We do welcome Americans , lots of them.

Nobody said otherwise .
We always have , and there's a hell of a lot here.

However , firstly , there is a limit as to how many we can absorb even in normal times.

Now , with tens of thousands of kiwi coming home (up to 4,000 and more a week) , as fast as there's plane seats to carry them , we couldn't even sustain that.

We already have all the suitable hotels set up for quarantining and isolation units ,
all around the country ,
and with minimum 14 days isolation or quarantine ,
it's not rocket science to realise they were soon at full.

so now flights/seats have to be limited to the spaces we have to put people.

Then in top of the tens of thousands of resident kiwi who suddenly want to come home ,
we already have over 30,000 filed applications for emergency exemptions ,
wanting to return for work , education etc.

They're not even taking applications for general immigration , or visitors ,
and last I heard some time ago there has been about a 10fold increase in enquiries and increasing .
Recent news was it still is , but they're not taking applications. They can't.

It's kiwi , essential workers , and workers families and they're stacked up waiting.

Just tonight it was reported that in one vocation alone (that most of us would never even think of)
there are 6,000 queued for seat back here.

so anyway , it's definitely not anything to do with anyone (who behaves) not being welcome
It's just a matter of we have nowhere to isolate them ,
than , nowhere for them to live after isolation.

From memory , I think over 30 % of our current resident population were not born here.
Then there are the tens of thousands here on visas , not resident or citizen.

I have some good friends from America , and one was a business partner for many years.

Funny , no-one acuses me of hating NZ when I criticise our government or anything else kiwi , and I have plenty.
Or England for that matter.

 

I would love to move to NYC. We’ve talked about getting a place when we retire by the beach and buying an apartment in NY that we could visit for long weekends.

 

Here in England there have been reports of people leaving London to find homes in the more rural parts of the country. It has been reported that some of the reasons for this are to do with their mental ability to cope with the lockdown restrictions.
It seems that many of the younger generation cannot cope with being in small concrete boxes for a length of time. Yet these are the same people who can't live without using a mobile device for a few minutes, or even follow social distancing guidelines.

 

I don't find crowds to be the least bit exciting. I avoid them like the plague. lol

 

I think with the advent of remote work, a lot of business models will change substantially.

I also think those big city salaries will move to the exurbs or beyond, and that wealth redistribution will have a huge impact on both property values and smaller economies. I think you’ll see things like the rents dropping in places like SF happening all over. It’s a good thing, and an equalization will have interesting political impacts on more rural areas.

 

Were i work most people work from home.The building holds 1500 people because of the shape of the toilets only 1 person can be in there at one time you have to call out before you enter.The lifts can only take 2 instead of the usual 8 to maintain social distancing.Till they get a vaccine It's not going to change.Unless they change and except a mass ilness and deaths.Then all the rich people and older people will retire and move away to some safer.

 

Seeing this , after the shit I got for the tongue in cheek (the first sentence)
post (above)
I made the other day , was rather enlightening ;

‘They’ve had enough of everything’: Record numbers of Americans are giving up their US citizenship
Handling of coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump, and onerous tax filing requirements cited as reasons

interesting

 

Escape from New York was as bad as Escape from L.A.