R.I. exodus: Losing the young, ambitious

The Providence Journal ^ | Tuesday, January 2, 2007 | Mark Arsenault

[theBuckwheat]

Flee liberal utopias while you can!

Liberals know, in their heart of hearts, they cannot build a "sustainable" society without enslaving high-energy, high-output people, who by their creative abilities become "rich". Everyone knows the "rich" are not paying their "fair share", and must "give back" to society to address "underfunded needs", which of course only exists because the "rich" have oppressed the poor.

[theBuckwheat]

Do you have a link to the table you posted? (When you post a great table like that, please always post the link so others can bookmark them for reference materials when writing opinion pieces.)

[Sybeck1]

This can't be true! How can someone leave a utopia like RI? This must be a misprint and they must mean my Mississippi instead. With all of our poverty and squalor you know! /sarc.

Man, I love Mississippi!

[Antoninus]

What, you mean the young and ambitious don't want to live in a socialist paradise? What is this world coming to?

[RockinRight]

It's only gaining due to immigration. It's losing a lot of educated native folks.

[MovementConservative]

bttt

[RockinRight]

PA is interesting. It's a conservative state by means of geographical area but blue due to the huge population of Philadelphia.

Seems though, that it's a much better alternative to New England and is doing relatively well economically.

[RockinRight]

NoVA also has higher-paying jobs on average even when adjusted for RE prices vs. most of New England.

[ishabibble]

I left Rhode Island years ago, for one reason. I could no longer stand the absolute corruption. I don't mind living with liberals, but most RIer's cannot even be classified that way. So many people are 1st and 2nd generation and they have the values of the oldtimers, and since RI is small enough to be a city-state, it makes no sense for so much crime and corruption to be tolerated.

From Buddy to Buckles to G Fox to Claus von Bulow, Raymond Patriaca, Wendy Collins, Celona, CVS, Blue Cross, Roger Williams Hospital, Cranston General, the Scott Hornoff trial, the Jerri Ann Richards trial, on and on. That's just off the top of my head.

Rhode Island has one paper, one prison, it takes 45 minutes to cross any which way, Providence is a filthy, dirty cesspit with graffiti declared art because the city's homosexual mayor, Diva Dave Cicilline can't get the 5,000 city workers to clean it up. The homosexuals have taken over PVD. The unions run it. RI is a mindset, an attitude. A very, very bad one.

I miss steamers and NY System, but all the nice things about RI cannot hide the bare criminality of the place.
Is that Rte. 10 paving job done yet? It's been over 15 yrs. now. THAT is what I can't stand. If you are not a crook in RI, well, then your mother/cousin/sister's husband has a good state job and you gotta be loyal. Hence, the 47 dollar per hour crossing guards in Cranston standing on corners where no children cross. People knew that Laffey was the right man for the Senate, but (and I know you will understand!) AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whadda ya gonna do?

[dasboot]

OOOhhhh Portsmouth. 15 years ago some friends built at the north tip near the Mt Hope Bridge. 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bath: $5,000/year property taxes. Up since.

Taxes are forcing me out of my MA home, soon. Doubled last year. I retire in three days. We have a new liberal socialist governor who has vowed to raise taxes to fund "cheese programs" and everything else. We're gonna eclipse Maine in a year. I like FL. I like SC.

[dasboot]

OOOhhhh Portsmouth. 15 years ago some friends built at the north tip near the Mt Hope Bridge. 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bath: $5,000/year property taxes. Up since.

Taxes are forcing me out of my MA home, soon. Doubled last year. I retire in three days. We have a new liberal socialist governor who has vowed to raise taxes to fund "cheese programs" and everything else. We're gonna eclipse Maine in a year. I like FL. I like SC.

[AuH2ORepublican]

The 2006 Census estimate states that California had more of its residents move to other states than the number of residents of other states that moved there, the first time it has ever had net domestic emigration. It's population did grow between 2005 and 2006, though, due to childbirth exceeding deaths and due to immigration from foreign countries. However, if we assume that California will grow through 2010 at the same pace as it has from 2000-2006, the state will *not* gain a House seat following the next (2010) Census for the first time since it entered the union.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Also, Pittsburg and Scranton are blue to the core like Philly, while the rest of Pennsylvania is red.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for your kind replies.
Government makes me sick to my stomach.

[Major Matt Mason]

[Insert name of northeastern state] exodus: Losing the young, ambitious

[Major Matt Mason]

Taxes, interestingly enough, in some of those areas, are higher than we have here. [People leaving Rhode Island] will pay more in property taxes, but I think they pretty much accept that because most of them will be able to purchase a home that they can’t here now.

Talk about denial. He's only looking at property taxes, not the entire picture. The entire northeast will eventually collapse in on itself.

[JoeGar]

They're also swarming into places like Asheville, Blowing Rock ...

I saw a talking head on TV say that the NC mountains is currently the hottest real estate market in the USA.

[BeckB]

I live in Texas and see a lot of these people coming here to work. I also worry that they are bringing their old voting habits with them. Hope they learned something before they left!

[SueRae]

The cottage we stayed at was within walking distance of the Bon "Zoo" and Aunt Carrie's :-) The place in Narragansett might have been called the Neptune Inn when i used to frequent there. The Yellow Kittens on BI was also a good spot for entertainment.

I go back that far but didn't frequent most of those places until the 80's.

[dashing doofus]

It is not your imagination. Much of the growth in my state of NH comes from Massachusetts, and now NH is solidly blue. I believe (and pray!) it will be temporary when people witness what is occurring in Massachusetts and what will happen over the next four years while Deval Patrick is governor.