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No. We do not need more cities. All that does is spread blight and poverty, and forces a lifestyle on us that chose to move away from populated areas. It's the equivalent of opening up Section 8 housing in an affluent neighborhood.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
A Better Future
In earlier times, even with a soaring population, Americans knew how to accommodate housing demand. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we built cities from scratch along the frontier. The existing major urban centers—Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia—all expanded rapidly, both by density and expansion into land on the periphery.
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Exactly right. We need more control over our borders.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Small communities are far easier to provide reliable utilities, traffic patterns that work, and less stress. What good is a community with 3 Wal-Marts / 4 Targets ? Same stuff, just different building maybe 5 minutes closer. Whooop Te Do.
ReplyDeleteMoving the less afluent facilities out of urbans and into countryside only gets them out of the view (and responsibility of pleasing them) out of city officials who okayed the sale of the property (likely by one of themselves) for this purpose.
We need to close our borders, eliminate H1b and similar people from coming in, get illegals out and then work on fixing the "broke" cities. The "broke" cities are broke because of what their politicians have done, crime, and what has happened to jobs.
ReplyDeleteA major point in my near two decades letter writing campaign to a multitude of poly ticks, I brought up the graft inherent in the H1-B program.
DeleteNone were neutral on the matter, every of those ticks effused great praise for the program.
Today I was thinking there is no land where a guy could buy some rural acre to build an off grid abode to live in full time without government wanting to first approve the plans including septic field.
ReplyDeleteA friend added an adition which more than doubled the size of his house. He did it with no plan approval or any inspections. He did this by finding out the schedule for the county building inspector for his area. He had all materials delivered when the inspector was elsewhere. I doubt that would work these days since they use guggle images to check for new building activity. And that's the thing; a guy can't be left alone.
I built my house in rural Ky having had to get a site inspection for the septic and final electrical inspection, that’s it, no further follow ups required it was dead simple.
DeleteThe mission statement for HUD gov agency is to put a crack house or apartment in every neighborhood. If the city fails to do so, federal money will be withheld.
ReplyDeleteWe absolutely do not have a housing shortage, because of we had our benevolent government would not be bringing in millions of illegals.
ReplyDeleteIf we stop immigration, our population declines. Housing gets cheaper.
ReplyDeleteNot to worry Herr Klaus Schwab has the perfect solution to the problem, AKA: The Final Solution.
ReplyDeleteNeca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.
ReplyDeleteWhen my dad was alive, we talked about a similar thing. If the government were to build a brand new town, with all new housing, stores, gas stations, churches, whatever, and give it free and clear to what we will call, minorities, in lieu of a more accurate name, within 2 years, the entire place would be torn up, the housing would be a shambles, with graffiti and garbage covering the stairs, and the hallways carpeting would be torn with cigarette burns, windows broken out,etc.
ReplyDeleteThe police would have to have a new station built in the area, to keep from putting so many miles and so much fuel, through the 911 calls to stop the drugs and domestic disturbances.
While my dad and I talked about this at least 25 years ago, almost the exact thing happened here in a city called Muskegon Heights, while I live in the city of Muskegon. They build a bunch of new housing, some investor even built a McDonalds, several retail stores like Dollar General, a Toys r Us, a mid level restaurant, etc.
They built a new high school, and a middle school. Those both failed, and the state had to step in. Now they are run by a conservator, as far as I know. They just had a vote of no confidence on the company running the school system.
Within just a few years, the whole thing was down in flames. The McDonalds went down, to be reopened several times, by a few people who lived in that town, and wanted to see it get better. But of course, when you have a business in a town like that, it quickly becomes a hangout, no matter how you try to stop it. With a hangout like that, the police end up being there every night. With the furnishings being torn up, and the place selling fried chicken, which was actually quite good, they ended up shutting down.
It happened twice, with the next time selling fish and chips, with a creole style. By then, it was so bad of a place that I didn't dare to go there, because of the drug dealers hanging about. It was around the time that I started to learn about carrying a concealed gun, and avoiding hanging out in places that were not safe.
If such a thing happens in such a small city as mine, then it can happen anywhere. Usually there are some elder people living in such cities who want to just live in peace, without a problem and without dealing with the human garbage that lives in the same area. It is a sad thing, when decent people can't live their lives in safety, in their own homes. But it is the reality that we live in, and we have to be prepared to protect our own.
Don't have to imagine...just go to any Native American reservation and see the government largesse.
DeletePro tip: in any city, the name with "heights" on the end will be where they keep their negros.
DeleteSection 8 housing for thee, not for me.
ReplyDeleteThose Venezuelan illegals still on the base in Cape Cod? Or are they settling in next to us, the hoi polloi?
In NYC the Mayor is planning to lease a luxury cruise ship, park it in NYC harbor and fill it with illegal aliens.
This world is beyond insane/
They DO open Section 8 housing in affluent areas! See Austin, TX "The Domain"
ReplyDeleteOn second thought....opening up sec. 8 housing in affluent neighborhoods sounds like a great idea....it will keep the riff-raff out of my neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThere is a little community like that about 30 miles from me in East Texas. One of the city councilmen sold some land to a developer for section 8 apartments. This community was never zoned for multi-family dwellings and when the people found out the true intent of the developer, mysterious things started happening at the worksite. They have had about 5 fires, materials disappearing and workers suddenly leaving the jobsite. Very strange. The robotic security camera system keeps going on the blink and just 2 weeks ago all the plumbing was found full of concrete. The developer is at wits end and even the police are stumped as to how it happens.
ReplyDeleteBad luck, I guess.
Reality:. People do not value what they have not had to earn.
ReplyDeleteGiving things to people results in a mess.
Stealing from those that work and giving to those that do not is just insane.
In the "eighteenth century" we passed a bill banning immigration from nonwhite countries. Actually one of the very first bills ever passed. Worked well, eh? Cucks. Every single time.
ReplyDelete(Half the housing problem, or more, is illegals and excessive immigrants and their broods. The rest is due to inflated prices from developers and speculators)