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The future of America’s suburbs looks infinite
The Orange County Register ^ | November 18, 2017 | Joel Kotkin

Posted on 11/19/2017 12:33:41 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: KC Burke

Section 8 kills everywhere it touches.


21 posted on 11/19/2017 5:33:18 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: KC Burke
"I see residential construction much like this old Dutchman — transient."

Having spent a career working in the Detroit metropolitan area, I can attest to the fact that not all commercial construction is any more permanent. Note the Studebaker plant downtown:


22 posted on 11/19/2017 6:02:56 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only city I’d live in Tampa. Beautiful condos being built and it’s near the water...besides, Tampa might have a Dem mayor, he is not a Marxist...


23 posted on 11/19/2017 6:10:45 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: KC Burke

Americans aren’t into permanence. We’re into “gets the job done”. What’s the first thing Americans do when we buy a house: remodel. We add rooms to houses constantly. Frame houses fit our mentality.

Of course there’s also the problem they went by train. Poor people live by train tracks in America.


24 posted on 11/19/2017 6:19:35 AM PST by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In my view, it was the policy of the Obama administration from HUD to the Transportation Department to EPA, etc., to destroy the more conservative suburbs and move people into blue central cities such as exist in Europe. Well, such as existed in the Soviet Bloc.

If that forced current suburbia dwellers to endure high crime rates, in areas where their votes were now overwhelmed, well, didn’t they deserve it?


25 posted on 11/19/2017 7:17:09 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

People are leaving cities and unfortunately taking their democrat voting habits with them to destroy the suburbs.


26 posted on 11/19/2017 9:38:21 AM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Impy

Locusts.


27 posted on 11/19/2017 10:25:57 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Pollster1
Right you are, if you want any chance at happiness you have to leave the cities behind.
28 posted on 11/19/2017 11:18:02 AM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think I live in the suburbs, but it feels more like living in the sticks, until I see the sticks.


29 posted on 11/19/2017 11:25:22 AM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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