Posted on 03/11/2025 12:10:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I worked in downtown Dallas after Dillard’s and Foley’s were already gone. To make matters worse, I saw a Hardee’s sign in the distance and thought that would be a great place for lunch. Darned if it wasn’t closed too. Now that really hurt.
Once they shut down the Soup Nazi, that was the beginning of the end.
I live north of you over the NH border.
The only time I go to Boston is to Logan airport or the occasional Red Sox game.
Years ago my wife and I used to go in and spend a weekend there in the winter. Stay at one of the nice hotels and eat at a fancy restaurant. We have not done that in many years.
Change is the only constant.
Not surprised.
FlingWingFlyer wrote: “Sounds like the burbs are on the way to losing all of their pharmacies, supermarkets and Walmarts. Once the “smash and grabber” slash and stabbers move in, decent businesses will be moving out.”
The liberals believe that relocating Section 8 housing into the burbs will have two effects.
First, proximity to the Section 8 will create sympathy among those living in the burbs resulting in increased funding to offset the poverty.
Second, the burbs will become mentors for those living in the Section 8 demonstrating that the way to get ahead is to get a job allowing them to afford the finer things.
Actually, it won’t work that way.
The burbs will be less likely to support the Section 8 when they can see with their own eyes what the residents of Section 8 are like.
The residents of Section 8 will see the burbs leaving for their jobs, they will roll over for more sleep, and then they will use their absence to steal the finer things.
Small business people discovered that Democrat city officials refuse to defend their property.
Then they fled.
They decided not to get scammed a second time.
I loved Florence. We stayed in the center of town right on the piazza across from the Ufizzi Gallery. I did not see one homeless person the whole time I was there. The city was clean too.
Even in Rome where we stayed right around the corner from the Spanish Steps. In general I found the center of the city to be pretty clean. I can remember one homeless person lying on a sidewalk talking to herself on the way back from dinner. One homeless person in the four days we were there.
Pretty nice for a city of 3 million.
Take an empty hi-rise and put a soup kitchen on the top floor. Make them take the stairs up to get there. It would be good for their health/cardio. Panoramic views.
Then they can go down to the next floor and enjoy a glass or 2 of boxed wine as a reward.
The bottom floors can be used for shelters. Laundromat on a separate floor and showers on another.
Nobody wants to live near the blacks. Not even other blacks.
“Prescott is losing a Del Taco.”
Really? They are pretty good.
COVID and the dystopian fiasco that came with it was the death knell of downtowns.
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This was and remains the biggest change agent of all. I wonder if the COVID merchants of death envisioned the long term sweeping societal change and damage they were doing when they went on their killing spree?
Multiculturalism kills it.
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WHEN YOU ALLOW/ENCOURAGE N+DRUGS/NEEDLES? EXCREMENT/URINE EVERYWHERE-—THIS WILL KILL BUSINESS.
SAN FRAN TOOK A DELIBERATE ACTION.
THEY ARE REAPING THEIR REWARD
Downtowns are not NYC or any other massive liberal shxtholes.
My local downtown.. population just under 700, is doing well, restaurants are usually full, so is the local brewery since I go there and order from the restaurants.
Cities suck, always have and always will.
Does this mean the dope just figured out the obvious?
Amish.
And the section 8 housing has grown to the point where we have our own food desert, along with all of the problems that come along with the stereotypes. There have been various attempts by true-believers to build non-profit groceries, but so far the Casey's Gas Station and the liquor store across the street are the only places to get a bag of chips or a lottery ticket.
And, of course, capitalism is the problem, at least according to the true believers.
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