The leftists don’t believe that anyone should escape their utopia.
60,000 residents in a suburban municipality is the problem. It’s either not a real suburb, or it’s such a sprawling mess that it can’t be sustained at a suburban density (hence the urbanization).
Some people love any kind of power and are attracted to the idea of telling everyone else how they should live.
The natural tendency is for the wrong people to gravitate to office. This problem is exacerbated because the Media have a strong bias to promote leftists to office.
Nobody likes living in cities anymore, they’re too crowded.
Well ... if we are going to import a city the size of Chicago each and every year — and that’s just the illegals across the border with Mexico — where do we think they are going to go?
I know, I know ... wherever the Biden human smuggling operation dumps them. But that will ultimately be mostly concentrated in the cities. It will continue to flood lower income housing, which is already in tight supply. And the ripple effect will continue to densify the suburbs.
The birth rate of the native U.S. population is below replacement level. Population growth is entirely driven by immigration, mostly illegal. If we are going to double the nation’s population every 40-50 years, the urbanization of the suburbs is inevitable.
We all understand this. The leftists don’t, or pretend not to. At this point, I’m ready to suggest that the next Republican president go to every sanctuary state, say that public housing has to be prioritized for penniless illegal immigrants who don’t speak the language, and that this includes student dorms at every public university. College students are privileged in the global intersectionality calculus. Let privileged college students live on the economy and turn their dorms over to the newcomers. And let woke college faculties navigate seas of illegals turning the plazas, sidewalks, landscaped areas, and the entryways of campus buildings into tent cities. The idea that the president doesn’t have the power to do this is being destroyed on a daily basis by Biden’s lawlessness. The schools and universities are now federal puppets. Or so says the democrats.
Let the no borders advocates live in the global shantytown they are inviting into the U.S.
| Jessica Marie Baumgartner is wrong. Citizens don't need to 'show up' and explain how important our community is - to beg. They need to run for local offices and win. The people doing this are organized and they have a plan... just like when these same types took over positions on school boards a few years back. No one knew what was happening or where they came from...
No kids but the same left wing, sexual weirdo mentality.
Happened to DA's in our cities too. George Soros works from the bottom up.. No amount of logic will sway these folks because they're NOT there for the good of the city or community or neighborhood. These are the 'no cash bail needed' people, the porn in school libraries folks, and the 'large ugly housing projects' folks. You don't fight them by begging or logic or reason - you fight them by running against them.
“During 2020, panhandlers started appearing in the area”
I stopped, rolled down my window and told a panhandler yesterday: “Really! You’ve been doing this for FIVE years!” I know because I gave him $1.00 five years ago — he looked at the bill, sneered at the small amount, sneered at me and grudgingly put the bill in his pocket. A memorable occasion.
It must have effected him because I saw him 10 minutes later at a different stop sign — I rolled down my window and laughed at him...
I just read an article on real estate that said the buyers aren’t looking for all these apartment buildings, buyers want traditional single-family housing on a piece of land. What is being built is what government wants. So again, I will ask, why are we being imposed upon? Our form of government is supposed to be a representative form where government puts out what the governed demand.
It will be like France, where the suburbs are the areas the poor live in.
Well yeah. That’s just the natural math of a growing city. Out of town becomes the ex-urbs, ex-urbs become suburbs, and suburbs become urbs. Not really a mystery. At the end of the 19th century the part of Tucson I live in was a different township entirely with a bunch of nothing between it and Tucson. By the time I got here it was all Tucson.
How about a bounty on panhandlers who disrupt traffic?
My County is one of the Redest in Minnesota.
Over the last 5 years... They’ve built multiple high density housing projects and put in dozens of business complexes where there used to be farm land...
My taxes have skyrockets accordingly...
Anecdotal proof... but there it is...
If she doesn’t want any development (big box stores and restaurants) she needs to move to a mountain hamlet where there is no physical space for development.
Local politicians perform much better when angry and determined locals are in their face 24/7.
They are public servants and need to be treated like servants.
If they don’t like it they are free to quit.
News flash:
This has been going on for at least 60 years, and there are any number of suburban ghettos which prove it. They all started off nice, then they went to hell. Many close-in suburbs were well underway on that dismal journey before many of us were even born, and things surely aren’t getting any better today.
You want a good area? Get as far away from the central city as possible. Skip over the “first ring” suburbs (they should be obviously horrible by now) and probably over the second ring too. In some areas like Atlanta, you need to go at least 3-4 counties away from Fulton. That’s a hell of a commute if you work in the city, but well worth it to be able to sleep relatively safely at night.
What I don't understand is the economic argument for all of these apartments. Most of the employment in town is barely above minimum wage. The rents are out of reach for most people with local employment. There is adequate housing around Idaho State University for the transient populations of students present from September to June each year. I see a similar pattern up in Idaho Falls. New apartments everywhere. There simply isn't adequate employment to support all of this capacity.