Interview · moment 8 of 23
New York City's Decline and Wanting to Live Near Rich People
from White Marble with Paul Virzi | The Tim Dillon Show #314 · #314
3 min
Guest
Paul and Tim talk about how dangerous and decayed New York City has become, homeless people reaching breaking points on subways and in Austin, and their shared desire to live in wealthy, insulated communities away from public life.
- New York City has declined so much that Tim avoids taking his family there because of homeless people and hustlers who scare his kids.
- Tim witnessed someone in Austin have a breaking point and try to jump in front of a car, which he compares to the daily desperation on NYC subways.
- Tim's theory: someone trapped on the subway all day watching families laugh and leave for Westchester in a Jaguar reaches a breaking point.
- Tim specifies he doesn't want to live near people who fly commercial airlines—he wants to live in neighborhoods so wealthy that nobody's even home.
- Those ultra-rich areas are basically money laundering operations with Mossad-level security where people commit white-collar crime while summering in Paris.
- Tim has always been attracted to areas where people were so rich it was confusing, even as a kid before he had money.
- His comedy friends mock him for liking expensive restaurants and wanting to fly private someday, which he acknowledges is his actual goal.