Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time
by Dylan16807 on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:39PM
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Yes, of course it would count them. But that number will be much much smaller. If the average visitor is there for a week, then a million yearly visitors only increase the daily population by 20k. You'd expect a crime increase equivalent to 20k residents or less.
So if there really is an 11x increase in crime, along with a 10x increase in yearly population, that's actually a huge increase in crime on a per-person per-day basis.
Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time
by filoleg on Sunday July 17, 2022 @01:32PM
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> If the average visitor is there for a week, then a million yearly visitors only increase the daily population by 20k
Correct, but NYC had 66 million visitors in 2019[0], which is way more than 1mil you guesstimated.
Which, conversely, would increase the daily population by 20k*66=1.32mil. 1.32mil is a non-trivial increase in daily population at all.
0. https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/tourism-industry-ne...
Yes, and that "average number of people there each day" would include all the non-residents/tourists in the city. Which is a non-trivial number at all for NYC.