Posted on 02/20/2006 5:19:12 AM PST by Clemenza
NYC is unique in that driving isn't really a viable option for most. I'm fond of Dallas and Chicago in that it's not so congested that you can't drive, and it's not bereft of mass transit so taking the train is always an option. I hate to drive too, but I love to ride. I couldn't live in NYC where getting on my Harley and driving on the open road wasn't an option.
What's a problem family?
I've lived near poor people (in my poor student days), including illegal aliens (!), who were generally good neighbors. I've also lived among "problem families", and had to put up with the vandalism, crime and surly attitudes that they bring into a community.
Let me get this straight: If I start being more anti-social, smacking people around etc, the government will give me money to find a place to live? Suddenly all this restraint I've shown in recent years seems wasted.
The Low Down.
I went to Iona Prep. The Hutchinson Parkway was like the Mason Dixon Line. The guys from Yonkers and Mt. Vernon like myself had nothing to do with the guys from Larchmont and Mamaroneck and Rye. It was like the Outsiders sort of.
The guidos vs. the preps.
My first car was a monte carlo with a blue top, racing wheels, tinted windows and a big antenna on the back.
And this is why the exurbs, Frisco, north plano, McKinney and points north are being settled so rapidly.
Because he totally F%^& the neighborhood of hard working blue collar people with welfare scum subsidized by you the schmuck taxpayer.
You know what, he lost out in the end because the scum in Section 8 don't pay their way and destroy the place.
I am glad you see capitilism as taking from the taxpayer to subsidize lazy bums and people destroying working class neighborhoods in the process. Real nice.
Your damned right! Section 8 destroys neighborhoods. Try living near these people for any period of time and you will vomit.
My dad told me I had one chance and if I screwed up I was going to Roosevelt H.S.
I love Biohazard. Hardcore Brooklyn band.
You forgot Rowlette, the fastest growing city in the metroplex but that's really of no consequence to this discussion.
Silly me, I thought those areas were growing so rapidly because that's where the majority of new building was taking place. And guess what...this is really amazing....the new building is taking place there because there is more undeveloped land in those areas than in Dallas, Addison, Richardson, Garland, etc, which were all established earlier. It has NOTHING to do with immigration, illegal or otherwise.
I'm researching section 8 to make sure I understand this well. However, at this point I'm extremely uncomfortable labeling the lower economic classes as scum, so I'll agree to disagree for now.
Based on numerous examples I have come across personally, I will stand by my statement.
It ruins a neighborhood.
Actually it does. I grew up in Bedford and the mid Cities area and got to watch first hand what happens to suburbs that don't age well. Irving looked like it was on it way down by about 1990. I go back home and drive through areas that I thought were wonderful. Now? You couldn't pay me to live there.
Irving is a toilet now. Bedford, Euless, Hurst, North Richland Hills, and Watauga are all looking run down as well.
In Texas, the prosperity of a town is inversely proportional to the amount of spanish signs and billboards in that town.
I have ZERO problems with legal immigrants, but illegals should have a bounty on them.
How many suburban post-war houses were built with pole hoists and haylofts in the middle?
Yeah, San Antonio is a stunning example of that. /sarcasm.
I don't know why I bother. I only become frusrated and annoyed at the steady stream of anti-hispanic rhetoric on FR these days.
We called them BaBa's (Guidos) we made fun of them also. My first car was a Apple Red Firebird a Guidette car.
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