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Maybe someone wants big cities to turn to shit. Maybe they will buy up cheap real estate and then put the police back, raising land values.

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Patrick says

Maybe someone wants big cities to turn to shit. Maybe they will buy up cheap real estate and then put the police back, raising land values.

This is exactly what they are doing. They did this in the 1970's. Only after the city becomes a nightmare, and the property is bought up on the cheap, will they start making it livable again.

richwicks says

Patrick says

Maybe someone wants big cities to turn to shit. Maybe they will buy up cheap real estate and then put the police back, raising land values.

This is exactly what they are doing. They did this in the 1970's. Only after the city becomes a nightmare, and the property is bought up on the cheap, will they start making it livable again.

Nope. We weren't meant to live in cities as humans. Insects like ants and some others are the only living creatures that lives in one small space, not many. Just because we have words doesn't mean we're any different than a horse. We're still an animal.

Why do people think we expanded westward? Gold? Free land? No, they wanted to get the fuck out of the east coast and at that time urban areas. You cross an Ocean to leave a shit hole just to move into another? No, you get on the fucking wagon and get the hell out. That's why demographics around the globe are collapsing. Urban density. It's a miserable life. That includes large suburbs. The most urban area for centuries, Europe is the cause of our biggest wars.

There's a reason most wealthy have land in places like Montana, Colorado, Utah, Idaho out west. It's to get away from people. It's the same in IL. You can pick up 10 acres in WI for next to nothing. Most people don't WANT to be in urban areas, they HAVE to be there for money so they get a camping or cabin property up north.

Being forced to live in a place is pure misery. I've done it. I moved in state and couldn't be happier. All the family I'd want to see is within an hour or so. No traffic or worries about other shit drivers. No light pollution. No noise from traffic/roads. Two cops that I know. Have drinks with the village president at their house frequently. I don't trust everyone, but at least I know them.

Point being cities are always shit. They just put lipstick on a pig occasionally when they get the support to raise taxes and create a new "entertainment" district or something similar to take you to a place where you can't see the absolute shit that city living is.

WookieMan says

Being forced to live in a place is pure misery. I've done it. I moved in state and couldn't be happier. All the family I'd want to see is within an hour or so. No traffic or worries about other shit drivers. No light pollution. No noise from traffic/roads.

This is where I grew up:

https://goo.gl/maps/rLLvoNBuzo1SKaMw9

That was ABSOLUTE misery for me. My nearest neighbor was about 1/2 mile away. It was pretty. The nearest movie theater was 45 minutes away. Our "library" was this little building with just children's books. We had ONE school, and 1/2 my teachers were WORTHLESS or worse than worthless. There was no internet. I couldn't even call outside of that town without long distance. Our phone numbers were 4 digits long, not 7, 4. That's how small it was. A PRISON has more people in it.

I might be able to deal with it now in the modern age, but I despised being there. I went to school with the same people for 12 years. The nearest OTHER school district was over 20 miles away. I didn't have Chinese food until I was over 18. Pizza was considered exotic.

It was so confining to be there. Want to learn something outside of the scope of knowledge offered by your crap school? It was impossible. One of the first things I did when I got my license, was drive to a library. I taught myself boolean logic and binary mathematics. I didn't realize until I got to college that I wasn't taught SHIT in either history or English all my "history" knowledge was government propaganda.

It wouldn't be bad today, but it sucked 50 years, well, 20 years ago it sucked. Internet makes is possible today, but it wasn't 20 years ago. The only information you could get was from television and print media, and those are as bad today as they were then. All I could know, is what other people claimed was true. Original research was absolutely impossible. Going to Buffalo for college, getting on the Internet, having MASSIVE libraries at my disposal - being able to actually meet NEW people, not just the same people I knew my ENTIRE LIFE. It was a prison for me.

My Dad loved it. It's entirely isolating, and that's fine for somebody, but not a kid that's trying to learn anything about the world. I couldn't learn anything at all that wasn't offered to me. Highly restrictive.

Patrick says

Maybe someone wants big cities to turn to shit. Maybe they will buy up cheap real estate and then put the police back, raising land values.

This is what Catherine Austin Fitts says the 'Opportunity Zones' tax dodge is all about, I believe.

NYC is fucked; you have to be nuts to live there. The New Yorkers have largely left; about 50% of the population is foreign.
I feel sorry for the guy; I hope he gets off with probation or less.
The political reason for prosecuting him is obvious; the creep bothering everyone was black, and the guy is white.
"New York's alright until they push you in front of a subway." Fear