[ek_hornbeck]

The elite in our culture have almost always viewed the suburbs with some contempt. They are places scrubbed of physical danger at the cost of mediocrity, soulless consumerism, and despair. Further, the suburbs are now widely-condemned as the moral and policy expression of racism; created to accommodate white flight and to further impoverish blacks. The view that the suburbs are a moral and political hazard is seeping down.

And so what we are seeing in America seems to be a shift to more European model, of fantastically wealthy cities and increasingly–slummy suburbs

It's hard not to notice the trend: inner cities get gentrified, people from the slums relocate to cheaper suburbs where they can recreate the problems of the inner city. Meanwhile, working and middle class Americans who can't afford to relocate to the high-end gentrified districts get their neighborhoods destroyed by people from the city slums.

[gop4lyf]

The outer ring suburb that I moved to is being built up with higher end developers. In 15 or so years when I’m ready to retire, I’ll stand to make a pretty decent profit on my house, and move out to B.F.E.

[Hatteras]

Win/Win. The thugs can stay put and let their prey come to them. No need to follow the ghettro rail commuters out to the ‘burbs to mug them only to high tail it back to the city. They can save a few bucks and they keep urban crime where it belongs... in the city.

[stylin19a]

This will accelerate the process.

Coming to a suburb near you

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/34459-obama-new-fair-housing-rule-will-help-further-american-dream

[1Old Pro]

Dem pols are redistributing tax dollars from suburbs to failed cities.

[1Old Pro]

GE moved from CT to MA because of HIGH TAXES. The Dems in CT keep raising taxes and businesses keep moving out and now the state is near collapse - high taxes from libs

[Georgia Girl 2]

My niece lives in the Boston burbs and she says it just keeps getting more expensive.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Dr. Sivana]

When GE announced the move to Boston, Jeff Immelt said that it wasn't about taxes and regulations as much as the "ecosystem,"

Yeah, I tried that line dumping a girl once. She didn't buy it.

[BluH2o]

Lived in CT for 16 years 1976-1992. Our last home in CT, where we lived for eight years, was Easton in Fairfield County. The corporate office for GE was just off the Merritt Parkway at the Sport Hill Road exit in Fairfield. This was our exit, we drove north on Sport Hill a couple of miles to our home in Easton.
GE leaving for Boston will no doubt impact home values adversely in the area. It will also take a toll in other ways ... our Vet in Easton wife worked for GE. Other employees may take a buy out deal rather than move. Bottom line we moved from CT at a good time ... ahead of the ridiculous state taxes that came after we departed.

[sauropod]

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