The Achievement Gap

New York City sucks and it’s getting worse:

A New Yorker would have to make $123,322 a year to have the same standard of living as someone making $50,000 in Houston.

And with findings like this, it won’t be long before we have to seriously contend with the crushing burden of one million new residents, which underpins the mayor’s ambitious 2030 plan for the city. Or not:

Researchers said the combination of skyrocketing costs, stagnant wages and a deteriorating quality of life forced hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to flee the city for cheaper areas during the boom years from 2002 to 2006.

The report found that more New Yorkers left each year during the boom than left during the dark days of the early 1990s.