[mouse1]

Dont know how things are in Minnesota, but in Wisconsin, big cities like Milwaukee are the last place you want to live.

Neighborhoods are full of crime, public schools are failing to teach the basics and taxes are triple the price of the same size house in suburbia.

I dont think its a sense of entitlement to want to keep your children safe. Do you?

[ClearCase_guy]

Also -- imagine what would happen if millions and millions of hard-working people in the suburbs decided to move to the city. Lots of gentrification (which is nice) but it comes with a downside: the poor folks in the cities would be pushed out. Where do they go? The suburbs? Now you have poor, uneducated people, with no jobs, no cars, living in the middle of nowhere. That's not going to fly.

A modern society with an underclass (which is what we have) needs the cities to hold that underclass. There's no other place to put them. And for the most part, hard-working people seem to prefer living amongst trees over living amongst the underclass.

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

The reason that things are bad in cities like Milwaukee and Detroit is because people abandoned the cities in the first place. Minneapolis and St. Paul are certainly not problem-free, but have never had the level of urban blight a lot of other cities have. A big reason for that is because people have continually lived in the city. A city like Detroit or Baltimore seems so hopeless because it’s so abandoned. That contributes to crime and makes it more expensive to police.

I don’t think it’s a sense of entitlement to want to keep your kids safe; that’s a normal desire. The sense of entitlement comes when you think you deserve something you can’t afford. Are you better then all of the people still trapped in some of those neighborhoods? Plenty of them would like to keep their children safe also.