Posted on 11/29/2019 10:04:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
For twenty-somethings leaving a small town for the big city, the feeling of liberation and possibility can be exhilarating. Mom and dad, and their rules, are finally in the rearview mirror. But what’s up ahead is often worse—the welcoming arms of an even stricter authority known as leftist city government.
Many millennials are discovering this the hard way and making a U-turn. New Census Bureau data shows millennials are increasingly trading in urban life for the suburbs and even switching states entirely.
My home city of Philadelphia is a prime example. Here, 60,000 residents leave per year, and half of them are 18 to 34 years old. The reason? Urban centers like Philadelphia are bent on destroying the very conveniences that drew millennials to the city in the first place.
Here, the combined effect of sky-high taxes and outdated regulations add up to an all-out war on millennials. Or at least a war on the things they love the most. Brunch, for example.
In Pennsylvania, where I live, the number of available liquor licenses is restricted by our state liquor monopoly. These restrictions and the fact that licenses are sold at auction (seriously!) make selling booze way too expensive for business owners. It can cost more than $100,000 to simply obtain the license to sell a mimosa.
The restaurateurs who either can’t get a license or can’t afford one are forced to offer the would-be boozy brunchers a BYOB policy. Okay, Boomer. You’re trying to sell this as a hip “Philly Phenomenon”? We’re not falling for it.
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‘Moronialls’ fleeing dem ruined enclaves so they can create new dem ruined enclaves. Yeah, I’ve seen stuff.
Yep, I’m and old guy, but had to leave my home town for better financial opportunities. The circumstances are different but the results are the same with bad leadership.
Like termites after they've eaten all the wood in the house.
Exactly.
And then they will vote for the same failed socialist policies in their new cities.
Don’t move to E. Tenn. You’ll hate it here
No diversity, monochromatic
Lots of trees, mountains, hills, lakes and streams. No room for stores.
It’s really easy to buy a gun.
Prices for housing are too low.
Food is cheap.
Most of the people are patriotic. What’s worse, they’re honest.
There’s no income tax, so I don’t think the state will improve much.
Those TVA lakes are just miserable
Dolly Parton music is high art
The Smokies are just crawling with damn Yankees and tourists from Floriduh
Towns like Oak Ridge are just intellectual wastelands
The color Orange is everywhere
Save yourself, stay away
I live here, and I’m an asshole.
Off subject a bit, but I find it very odd in nearly every news show the backdrop is some big city with people and traffic jammed in the streets and freeways...And they often have to blur the back ground to make the colors larger.
Maybe it’s just me, but I know what a big cities looks like on the ground and they’re anything but pleasant looking.
You bring up a good point. I think in a lot of cases....a lot of bigger cities in the 1960s and 1970s were ‘colorful’. Like Miami or New Orleans. Somewhere in the 1980s, with the drug business, corruption, and urbanization....they all began to slip.
The dem-controlled disaster cities will get worse, and they will ask the suburbs for money, or force them to pay through complex laws which hide their intention.
Oh, and the reason why young folk are avoiding the big over crowded nasty cities is because reality bites hard...They find out big cities can be unforgiving, rude, dirty with foul attitudes in every direction.
Reno is popular for them.
One need only look at Los Angeles (42 suburbs in search of a city) to see this is action.
And it is starting in Dallas. Dallas city is pure blue but the outlying areas such as Irving, Grapevine, Richardson, etc. are starting to get a little more purple than I like.
Turns out the exciting cultural life is fighting through bums to get to your front door. My worse is occasionally chasing a hissing possum off my porch.
Judgeing by the stories constantly coming out Millienals are kinda’ like ping-pong balls in a wind tunnel.
Locusts.
Millennials fell for this because we fell for this as did our fathers. That’s how government in big cities work. Millennials had a choice and they chose to do the same thing somewhere else, and then having the nerve to b*tch about it?
Tell me about it.
Every few years the idea of "regional government" comes up. Since all the "cool cities" are doing it we should too. But every proposal seems to be to pour the suburbs' tax money into the central city's black hole. Fortunately it seems to get stomped hard enough that it never makes it to the ballot.
The problem is the Productive Class always flees to greener pastures, ceding more and more territory to the locusts, eventually you run out of greener pastures.
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