U.S. neighborhoods grow more crowded

USA Today ^ | 07/02/02 | Haya El Nasser

[FreedomFriend]

TRENTON, N.J.

[FreedomFriend]

I'm not sure about zoning laws. I studied a little urban planning in college, and my opinion is mixed. On one hand, I see it as the blatant disregard for private property rights. However, on the other hand, we can't have industry right next to neighborhoods.

What do you think?

[FreedomFriend]

Too bad my generation is unlikely to be as succesful as our parents were.

[FreedomFriend]

Taxes are one of the main reasons for small business failure. Personally, I know of small businesses that have been taxed (federal, state, local, ordinances, fees, etc.) in the amount of $50,000-$100,000 per year when their total sales was about $230,000-$300,000.

Think about how that wipes out any profit that you may have had after food, merchandise, labor, and operation costs?

[Carry_Okie]

I think that there is a completely different way to do things... but then, I invented it.

[skeeter]

Hmm, how did this happen? Describe the process of how it got that way, not to mention the visual blight of the area. It may be of importance to others to see if the same thing is happening in their communities.

I wasn't privy to to process.

I first visited Santa Ana in '73 to help settle a relative's estate, and returned for the first time not too long ago. So the visual effect was quite dramatic.

That said, I suspect most folks don't want to hear what I believe are the reasons for the transformation, nor do I feel like suffering their slings & arrows. They'll just have to learn on their own.

[Mamzelle]

Housing is one issue, but another I haven't seen addressed is what untrammeled immigration is going to do to car insurance. Do you think these immigrants are insured when they drive? Not likely. What happens when they cause an accident? The insurance of the other party must pay for what the uninsured driver causes. This will make insurance more expensive for those who DO buy car insurance.

[FreedomFriend]

Well come on, some may want to hear.

[FreedomFriend]

But he's packing up his wife and four kids and getting out. "When we moved in, it was all Italians," says his wife, Lori, 39. "We hardly know anybody anymore."

I suppose that I can relate. Ten years ago, the mall by my house was your typical lilly-white suburban mall. Today, it looks more like an example of the United Nations. This all happening within the past five years.

[FreedomFriend]

Isn't Watsonville up around Santa Cruz? I thought there were fewer illegals in that part of California.

[FreedomFriend]

Well, I hope my car insurance doesn't increase. I've paid so much for car insurance, and being that I'm now 25 (an age that you have to be as a male for you not to have outrageous car insurance prices) I have more reasonable prices.

[FreedomFriend]

I second that.

[skeeter]

Isn't Watsonville up around Santa Cruz? I thought there were fewer illegals in that part of California.

There's still a significant amount of argiculture in the Salinas valley extending up to SC, & plenty of illegals to go with it.

In fact, there's really no part of CA they cannot be found in abundance. Maybe in some of the counties in the mountains & the extreme north.

[FreedomFriend]

Would you call that a form of faulty advertising on the account of the government? Isn't there a law against faulty advertising? Hmm, perhaps we have a case, not to mention a case as a response to the devaluation of property. What do you say?

[FreedomFriend]

Thanks.

[FreedomFriend]

Real Estate Bubble? In essence, are your referring to when houses stop being built further out that people won't have the option of running away. Therefore, problems could escalate?

[FreedomFriend]

Agreed and you're welcome.

[FreedomFriend]

Yes, assimilation is so passe.

[FreedomFriend]

I'm afraid that you may be right. It's a sad state of affairs when this doesn't have to happen. Courage men in the U.S. government could easily put a stop to this.

[FreedomFriend]

You're right, they don't mind destroying the middle and upper classes. However, you can be rest assured, as one Freeper pointed out in reference to HUD officials' neighborhoods not being eligible for the HUD program, that the Left Wingers will make sure that their quality of life continues behing their "Ivory Towers".

[FreedomFriend]

What is it with HUD? How come they often seek to place "HUD HOMES" in middle income neighborhoods instead of low income neighborhoods, of which there would be no devaluing of property, therefore prohibiting blight?