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‘Fifteen-minute cities,’ gaining traction in a post-pandemic world, are already here in Arlington
www.arlnow.com/ ^ | December 20, 2022 | Jo DeVoe

Posted on 01/01/2023 6:08:36 PM PST by Jonty30

While the pandemic prompted a well-documented exodus to, and development of, sleepy suburban and exurban towns, the Rosslyn Business Improvement District says it has identified a different Covid migration pattern.

About a quarter of Americans reported moving to cities where they could be within a 15-minute walk or bike ride of grocery stores, healthcare and parks, according to a national survey by the BID.

The survey also found 41% plan on moving to be within walking or biking distance of their preferred amenities — including coffee shops, schools and gyms — in the next one to three years. That’s in contrast with places that prioritize mobility by motor vehicle, with sidewalks and bike lanes as a relative afterthought.

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I couldn't figure out what the left was up to, then it hit me. A more apt descript of these 15 minute communities is ghettoes. Ghettoes, whether it be black ghettoes in Democrat cities, Jewish ghettoes in Nazi Germany, ghettoes in the Soviet Union, or China, are part of leftism.

Blacks, in America, were chosen by the left to be run through social experiments to try and figure out how to make a people dependent so they become afraid to lose their dependence and can be treated like crap by the government without any consequences.

Once blacks were esconced in these ghettoes, their funding was cut off by the governemnt and their schools guaranteed failure for the kids so they would not have the tools to create circumstances so they could leave the ghettoes.

Then, the respective governments made sure that the physical ways of leaving or entering the ghettoes were limited.

What they did to blacks, they want to do to everybody. By putting people in these ghettoes, they can create one road in and out, that can be easily monitored and restricted as to who goes in and out.

Once they have everybody in these ghettoes, the elites can then proceed as they will to eliminate populations, one ghetto at a time.

1 posted on 01/01/2023 6:08:36 PM PST by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30

You will own nothing.

We will own everything.


2 posted on 01/01/2023 6:14:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: Jonty30
A more apt descript of these 15 minute communities is ghettoes.

A more apt description of these 15 minute communities is neighborhoods.

All neighborhoods are not equal.

A good neighborhood is the best way to live in a big city, unless you really enjoy spending 2-4 hours a day in your car.

3 posted on 01/01/2023 6:16:04 PM PST by sphinx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly, if you’re bad, you can be thrown onto the street within your community Then the community can be punished corporately for your misdeeds and the community will enforce the standards you, so you learn.


4 posted on 01/01/2023 6:17:14 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: Jonty30

Agenda 21


5 posted on 01/01/2023 6:19:52 PM PST by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: sphinx

Neighbourhood, for the left is intending, is just another word for ghetto.

Do you really think the political-economic party that murdered 250 million people, started the majority of major wars in the 20th century, enslaved over a billion, and aborted over 2 billion unborn children are intending something nice for you?

Reducing the world’s population to 500 million people is still part of what the left wants, but they need to keep you where they can find you in order to carry out that part of their decalogue.

Everything they are saying, to get you trapped in a ghetto, is merely soft-selling you. Once they have you, they can proceed swiftly with their desires.


6 posted on 01/01/2023 6:20:24 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: sphinx

Fat people hate walking. Me, I moved to a relatively small town (~50K) near the city center where I’m next to a grocery store and weekly farmers market and is a short stroll to a coffee shop so I can get my espresso in the morning. I don’t want to get fat.

The car? I have one, but can go days without using it.


7 posted on 01/01/2023 6:22:08 PM PST by glorgau
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Neighbourhood, for the left is intending, is just another word for ghetto.

Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto

8 posted on 01/01/2023 6:23:39 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cyclotic

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9 posted on 01/01/2023 6:24:36 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: dfwgator

On this side of eternity, that would be correct. However, in eternity, I expect my playground to encompass the entire universe.


10 posted on 01/01/2023 6:27:38 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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I want land, and zero urban cultured people.


11 posted on 01/01/2023 6:28:01 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Jonty30

How far to the shooting range?


12 posted on 01/01/2023 6:28:31 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: glorgau

If I could have lived my life different, I would do the same thing. The difference is that I’m voluntarily doing it and not being required by some bureaucrat following the Georgia Guidestones.


13 posted on 01/01/2023 6:28:41 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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You want to be within a 15-minute walk of everything you need? Go for it, and more power to you.

The problem is that many of our ruling elite think it should be mandatory. If they get their way, that old phrase “papers please” will be heard once again.


14 posted on 01/01/2023 6:28:53 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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I don’t even view the mandate of being in neighbourhoods to be that problematic. I think the ideal setting for humans in an urban setting are neighbourhoods.

It’s the one road in/out and containing us to make it easy to pick us off that I have a problem with.


15 posted on 01/01/2023 6:30:39 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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within 15-minute walk or bike ride of grocery stores, healthcare and parks
First, there's a huge difference between a 15 minute walk and a 15 minute bike ride. Worse, these idiots clearly have never done one or the other in Arlington, because it's quite hilly.

Sure there are some who do serious exercise (I see some riding or jogging up the bike path on Rte 50 -- some) , but I'd bet that most people here don't walk more than 300 yards a day. So, if there's truly a "15 minute" city, it ain't here -- unless they're taking a cab -- oh, sorry, Uber.
16 posted on 01/01/2023 6:31:09 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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Good luck with that sh!t in AZ! I live in a bedroom community 35 miles outside of Phoenix. We don’t have a lot of jobs here yet so a majority of us have to commute to Phoenix or Tucson for employment. Sorry, but we’re not falling for this latest social experiment.


17 posted on 01/01/2023 6:32:37 PM PST by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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“41% plan on moving to be within walking or biking distance of their preferred amenities”

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/bull.wav


18 posted on 01/01/2023 6:33:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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I grew up in a neighborhood like this……everything was nearby,

It was NOT a ghetto,it was wonderful.

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19 posted on 01/01/2023 6:38:55 PM PST by Mears (.)
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I live within one mile of my parish church, grammar school, high schools, city hall, park, parish courthouse, drugstores, grocery stores (plural), restaurants, bars, and general hospital. In my culture, this is a good thing.


20 posted on 01/01/2023 6:40:54 PM PST by Romulus
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