http://granitegrok.com/blog/2008/03/what_happens_in_a_town_when_the_privilge.html
An Update: Community center fund defeated
Yes. Matter of fact some of my inlaws and neighbors here in Vermont raised money for a community center, and helped with the rebuilding and repairs and with bringing it up to the fire code. But they didn’t expect the taxpayers to fund it. It’s a volunteer operation.
Hey, lady, if you want to meet your neighbors, go the the local market and chat with them, or talk to them when you meet them walking around the village. If you want to meet them more thoroughly, ask them over for dinner. Have a few picnics or barbecues.
Introduce your dog to their dogs.
Good grief.
You probably have my cousin that moved from Newberryport 2 yrs
ago to deal with.
As big a lefty as you`d find,love her but thinks the world revolves
around the swimmer.
I lived in a small town in North Georgia that was exactly what it was..small main street, small grocery (called Little Giant), no streetlights outside of town, but it was homey, comfortable and everyone was friendly..I was able to sit on the back patio of my house and literally, not figuratively, put my hand in front of my face on a moonless night and not see it..I could tell where the horizon was by the stars you could see..newcomers came along, decided it should really boom, they got elected to office, opened up the “development” books, and everything they moved there FOR was gone in a matter of 5 years..then THEY get transfers out of town leaving a mess to the rest of us..perhaps you’ve heard of the town..it’s called Alpharetta, Georgia..
This same thing has happened on my town several times over the years. They just keep trying again and again till people are worn down.
I genuinely believe the only solution is to identify the activists and burn them out encourage them to find a place more to their liking as soon as it starts.
I live in NH and got into an argument with some Libs from Moultonborough when I was in FLA. Most of the proles in that area live on $10 bucks an hour. These people are going from meal to meal and these Massholes what to impose on them, get real!
Seems like most of her wants would/could be satisfied through a church in the area. But then she would probably be expected to tithe or whatnot, even perhaps clean up her moral act. No, churches are too inconvenient: let the amenities and activities be run by the nonjudgmental government.
Some “small hamlets” would see a mysterious uptick in arson cases if a bunch of liberal Mass-holes moved in and attempted to get taxes raised.
If the area is a rural as it sounds, it probably has a community center under a different name. It’s probably called a grange.
Watch out for these new comers, they want to change your whole way of life. You’re lucky that they don’t already infect your state gov’t because they are bound and determined to make over your state in the image of the place that they left. They have no appreciation of the rural life style and they don’t understand that rural people live in the country because they have little interest in night life and designer shopping.
We have similar issues here in our Philadelphia suburb. We're in a very historic and traditionally conservative area, but people moving in are more typically liberals with little sense of history. They keep pushing for increased school spending for the latest, greatest, and most imposing buildings, programs, staffing, etc. I haven't seen it pay off in terms of better learning, and I doubt that I will. Taxes sure are heading up, though. Many of these folks don't plan to stay long term. They look upon this as a cheaper way to raise their kids than to send them to private school. They come to a good school district, implement a bunch of new programs, raise taxes, and then move somewhere cheaper in retirement. They don't care that they are driving long-term residents out of the community with their never-ending tax increases.
A little editing or the Cliff Notes might be helpful here.
Conciseness and clarity are good things.
People came to Florida from the north east, in droves, to settle in “paradise”. After a short time, “paradise” wasn't sophisticated enough.
They took over all the local governments and proudly proclaimed, “this is how we did it back home”. They taxed and developed until “paradise” looked a hell of a lot like what they ran away from.
Now, they're leaving Florida in droves looking for their new “paradise”. Where do they go? How about the Carolinas? Land is inexpensive. The towns are so quaint and they have four seasons. You can guess what happens, next.
And there you have it, “halfbacks”. They didn't move all the way back, just half back.
So the elite wants to make laws that benefit the elite and hurt the ordinary person.
No surprise there.
Let’s see. Rich folks move in and decide to take over. So they raise property values like a skyrocket, which is OK with the greedy and power hungry local politicians. Then the original citizens are driven out by the high property taxes and the local politicians are replaced by newbys. Kind of sounds like Vail Colorado.
Any self-respecting Selectman should chuck this hussy's letter by this point...
Did someone promise these people that things would stay the same forever?
Jaw droppingly overwhelming in its faux intellectualism and condescension. An elitist fascist to her very core.
My reaction to her letter was an urge to jump in my car, drive from Maryland to New Hampshire and punch her in the mouth.
Has anyone else noticed that after the elitists move into a small town, they jump up and down about the lack of “community centers”, “health clubs”, big swimming pools, etc. Then they whine at the annual town meeting about the needs of the community, gets all the “new-bees” to vote to build the items (at tax-payer’s expense) with a 20 year bond that “only” increases the tax bill $100 for the average homeowner, and THEN after another year or two, sells their Mc-mansion and moves out of town, leaving the new items to be paid for by the rest of us?