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All you need do for example is to compare the traffic flow into and out of the cities at rush hour. More taxes are paid by city dwellers than the cities receive from the federal government.

Not only is the difference obvious but it is totally false that there are no good jobs in cities. There is no suburban comparisons to the LaSalle Street concentrations of lawyers, financial expertise, or major Banks. Nor are there comparisons to the culture in the cities, no CSOs, Blues clubs, no Cubs.

The cities are the laboratories which create new products and new ideas because they provide the background, the economies of scale, low transportation costs vital to the creation of the new. Services like medical care and education are also extremely important and they are superior to rural areas.

Jane Jacobs books describe the economic role of the City.

It should also be noted that virtually all of the problems of cities flow from the poorly educated moving away from rural areas or other nations. These people are turned Demon by the welfare policies it uses to keep them on the Plantation. Knowing little about the politics, votes are retained by providing jobs, welfare even food.

This attraction is also demonstrated in 3d World cities which have achieved massive sizes in the last century.

Wars were traditionally won when the rival’s cities were overrun or destroyed. We don’t speak of the Trojan Suburbs War. Every great empire has at least one major city at its core.

Animus does not substitute for reason and knowledge.

I refer specifically to NJ’s cities - the people flowing in each morning and out each evening are the taxpayers, AND THEY DON’T LIVE IN THE CITY. Most of the financial jobs have headed to southern states, and anyone sampling “culture” is inviting disaster. Cities need open borders because even America’s underclass wants out; a prime example was the outreach by NJ cities for Puerto Ricans to move in after the recent hurricane.

Have you ever been to a city in NJ?

Never really been to NJ but I understand it is a shithole now. Cities can be killed and are, see Detroit.

I was born and raised in a small Southern town where there was no real opportunity unless you wanted to work in the paper mills. My childhood was idyllic and I liked it very much. So I was worried about raising my boys in Chicago even though the neighborhood was safer than almost all cities. But my worries were unnecessary and my sons grew into the kind of men anyone would be proud of. Of course, much of this was the result of having a fantastic mother who raised us all.

There are many more dumbasses in the cities compared to small locales but also more of the highly intelligent. In rural and small cities it is difficult to find enough people for a Bridge Club in Chicago I could play everyday with different people every time. The same thing applies to any complex activity such as musical groups. This feature gives cities a big advantage in recruitment of laborers.

The Division of Labor is one of the factors creating cities and there are activities almost impossible to find elsewhere.

NJ has no city comparable to Chicago; as I understand it, Chicago’s bad part is distinct and separate from the rest of the city, and real commerce occurs throughout the rest of the city. In NJ, the cities first lost their manufacturing, than their retailers (as 60s riots chased out middle class customers AND stores), and now their white-collar jobs - suburban office parks siphoned them away over the last few decades, and urban employers found it increasingly difficult to attract employees (since they’d have to commute into the city - none live within the cities themselves). Attempts to re-settle whites in our cities fail miserably; they know they risk their personal safety, and they know they are being wooed to simply pay other peoples’ bills. In fact, our cities have given up trying to re-build, and now simply farm out their welfare populations to surrounding areas via Section 8 housing because they can’t provide basic services for them - they need viable hosts. There are no notable white populations living in our cities to pay taxes; Newark NJ still hasn’t recovered to its pre-riot population level (and they were in 1967 - before the MLK/RFK assassinations).

Chicago is more like NYC, where you have a true mix of wealth and poverty among the residents, and a real racial mix; NJ cities for the most part have no “wealthy” areas. Jersey City has bucked the trend a bit with jobs and people migrating from NYC, but it is still by and large a dangerous city in most parts - and the gentrification is being fiercely resisted. Until recently NO sports teams played in our cities (and only the NJ Devils now play in Newark, while the Nets basketball team opted to move to Brooklyn instead), and our “cultural events” (with the exception of black or Hispanic events specifically) are held in suburbs. Our cities don’t have bridge clubs or real musical groups; again, there are no participants living within the cities themselves to participate. All of our cities are “Detroit” - and not the new one emerging today.

The creepiest thing about Camden (I haven’t been there in about 10 years - it is a couple of hours south of me) was not the people - it was the stretches of abandoned homes and other buildings. When they were deciding where to locate the battleship New Jersey museum, sensible people suggested the piers of Jersey City or Bayonne - but didn’t want to compete with the aircraft carrier Intrepid museum in NYC - so they put it in Camden to “revive the city” (as the nearby aquarium was supposed to do years before). Now it is part of Philly’s tourist literature, bleeding money, and incredibly (/s), it didn’t revive anything. Post-apocalyptic...

Your remarks are entirely true and the decent people there have my sympathies. Almost all the negatives are the result of federal programs and the Demon party.

Perhaps the only whites still in the City are those who have to live there to keep their jobs: cops, firemen, teachers, city employees.

We are watching a Civilization destroy itself and it isn’t a pretty sight.

There are few decent people in these places; Newark has one “better” area (originally populated by Portuguese immigrants about 50 years ago as whites fled the rest of the city, and they’ve since been replaced by Brazilians and Hispanics as they’ve worked their way out of the city to the suburbs), but it is not “wealthy” by any means - practically no Americans live there (or would).

As for residency requirements for municipal employees, they are one-sided, and few whites ever get those jobs in cities anymore due to affirmative action hiring. By one-sided, I mean my town has to open its tests to Newark for cops/firemen, while Newark is allowed to keep a residency requirement for residents. Even so, I believe those employees only have to keep an address there for a couple of years; there is no legal way to force them to live there (so they don’t; if anything, those jobs are a way for blacks and Hispanics to move out while keeping city paychecks rolling in). Newark has pushed the concept of a “teachers village” (where gubmint workers would live - and spend money, pay taxes - in fortified compounds in Newark), but it hasn’t taken off (the whole physical safety thing; ferals would gravitate there like moths to light). A few years ago there was a big story about Newark selling empty lots for $1,000 on Valentine’s Day; gibsmedats lined up around the block to buy them, and when it was revisited a couple of years later it was clear the project had failed. It was set up like the Homestead Act where the buyers would have to build on the lots and live there for five years or so, and that was where it all fell apart; the dupes who bought them realized they’d be turned from parasites to taxpayers, and most lots were never developed - you can’t give land away there is the new owner has to pay taxes on it.

Even state workers in our capital Trenton are notorious for living right across the Delaware River in more-affordable Pennsylvania.

This isn’t a civilization destroying itself in our cities; this is what remains when civilization just leaves altogether.

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