It’s not just rich New Yorkers who find Greenwich so attractive.
Comes word your Tatler’s hometown is seeing a sharp increase in crime these days and it’s not just the bored and spoiled scions of billionaire hedge funders smashing mailboxes or drunk driving daddy’s Lamborghini at 100 mph on North Street before barreling into their country club’s pool.
No, this is more serious. Miscreants from NYC have discovered there’s gold (figuratively–usually) to be had in the chic and pricey stores on Greenwich Avenue. With easy-on, easy-off access to Interstate 95, the pickins are choice and usually easy, In this latest heist though, a good Samaritan came to the rescue of a woman being robbed outside the Apple store, a favorite of the criminal class who visit Greenwich’s shopping district, and tried hard to nab the perp.
Nonetheless, the robber got away, but there is sufficient evidence to assume he’ll be busted eventually and no doubt released shortly afterward on his own recognizance (Connecticut’s courts are as lenient as New York’s these days). The local paper has declined to reveal the suspect’s hue so identifying him should be much less burdensome.
With events like these occuring more and more often in Greenwich, a conundrum is facing many of Greenwich’s newer residents who virtually all, despite their great wealth, range politically from liberal to radical left. Despite their being exemplars of capitalism, Wall Street bankers and the like, they are the same people who, when living in the City enthusiastically supported the reforms [sic] of its last mayor, Bill de Blasio, possibly the dumbest politician in America. This cretin defunded the police, eliminated bail, decriminalized most quality-of-life offenses and other idiocies. When the predicted results of these changes materialized with astonishing quickness, returning New York to the David Dinkins ’80s and ’90s,
the millionaire and billionaire leftists with children began to flee what they had wrought and Greenwich was their number-one destination. Sadly though, those radical chic-ers brought their political baggage with them and Greenwich, which used to be one the most solidly Republican strongholds in the nation, now has a majority of Democrat voters, who already are pushing the same tired progressive agenda so dear to them.
Your Tatler (who also fled New York in the de Blasio years, but chose to go west instead), wonders how the arriviste monied commies of Greenwich will deal with its rising crime rate. Will they at last get wise and perhaps reconsider the wisdom of soiling their own nest? Or will they pretend as before none of it is happening until this idyllic suburb has declined enough to compel them seeking out fresh territories on which to spread their ruination. Your Tatler’s money is on the latter.
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