Posted on 01/12/2022 7:09:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The place where you want to live doesn't exist anymore. There is no pathway back to the past. The future happens moving forward.
These thoughts became clear recently when discussing Chicago with a friend who had moved there years ago. Some in San Francisco, New York, and other large metropolitan areas, I would assume, now also feel the same. The cities of their desire or memory no longer exist.
The big-city culture, history, entertainment, eateries, mass transit, and general hustle and bustle were the allure. Amenities, job access, decreasing crime rates, overtaking the lower-income areas to create more affordable places to live once drove these large cities to be the targeted growth areas, especially for the up-and-comers.
According to U-Haul, recent moves include to states like Ohio, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, North Carolina, and Georgia. Moves to the big cities in California and Illinois were the lowest ranked destinations. What are the whys of this migration trend?
The most gentrified parts of our country are these large metropolitan areas. Gentrification as a pejorative depends on your perspective. The rich overtake an area and put downward pressure on the ability of the less well off to remain.
Redevelopment of cheap property into the avant-garde upscale dwellings of the well off fractures the "diversity is our strength" crowd's approach and serves to destroy the social fabric of these areas, one of the alleged reasons for the well off to have moved there in the first place. The poor are driven to the outskirts of these areas, the local culture changed and amenities now unavailable to them or their children.
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I feel the same about Seattle. Lived there 2000-2008 and for the most part was enjoyable, but the rot had already started to set in. And I still have a certain fondness for Seattle, but that fondness is for the memory of what it was, not what it now is.
The country that you love so much doesn’t exist anymore.
Remember Lot.
Downtown Denver too.
The big cities need a few Rudy Guiliani’s. Do they have the will?
I lived in Seattle for 46 years and loved it. In fact, I bicycle commuted year round for about 18 years to downtown, the U-district, downtown Bellevue and even just south of Renton (I was an IT contractor). I loved it.
But it changed. I moved to south central, rural Kentucky about 10.5 years ago and love it. Meanwhile, I visit family in Seattle once or twice a year. I no longer have any desire to go anywhere there other than their homes.
And as bad as the traffic was when we moved away, it’s MUCH worse now.
As far as I’m concerned, modern cities steal your soul.
Those were once amazing and glorious places. That was then, this is now.
The country that you love so much doesn’t exist anymore.
But it is no longer the city of my younger years, when I visited my grandparents in Albany. Having lived in the bay area from 1990 to 2014, I watched it change from a city my wife and I would go into for dinner or game to a city we avoided as much as possible. Very sad.
This. If the US had been captured by a cabal working with its enemies it's hard to see how its present state would be different.
Our current elite has thrown away every political, economic, technological and military advantage this country possessed in its mad pursuit of its own wealth and power.
I was in radio from 1978-2000. Worked and interviewed in many cities. Dallas, D.C., Baltimore, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Austin, Minneapolis, Portland, ME, Philadelphia.
I wouldn’t touch any of these with 100 mile pole now. I know people that still live in them and they want out.
Not only recognize what is happening but why. There no longer exists a reasonable consensus of commonly held values among Americans. Why would a decent, rational person wish to voluntarily live, work, raise a family or send children to school in these Democratic run urban areas. Also why would those rational, decent people want as neighbors the type of people that made those governments possible. Those governments did not come about in a cultural, social or political vacuum. Decent rational people given a preference want little or nothing to do with the people who make such places what they are. The real story is that this country has lost probably forever common values that truly unify. If the printing of money and the corrosive effects of inflation and lack of access to necessities continue, there will be the feared violence that people are predicting.
“Odd Couple” is a good one for NYC. 1960’s was Golden in NYC.
Why would anyone in their right mind "want" to live in those hellholes? I hate most cities, but ESPECIALLY those three.
Add New York City to that list.
Heck, my whole state of Connecticut is gone!
No Kidding!
Was just at the ProLife Banquet
in the South Loop Saturday
first time back there in a few years
the place has taken on a dreadful
third world look.
sad...
I went back to Chicago
and my city was gone.
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