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It’s a lot worse than Boulder.It's the Boulder Colorado of Texas.
It’s a lot worse than Boulder.It's the Boulder Colorado of Texas.
Yes, but then you live in a cultural, job, and activity wasteland.The winter is what it is, but you can live near a city in SD and not be isolated. City life without all the things mentioned in the opening post:
-overpopulation
-high cost of living
-homelessness
-definitely no tech bros
Because a lot of it is armchair quarterbacking and politically motivated. Plus how dare we blame anything on one portion of the population, or give the demographics, unless it’s certain groups that the woke folks are allowed to blame?I can only speak of Manhattan in the Times Square vicinity down to KoreaTown. We had the impression based on the media that it wasn't in good shape, however, it was. Was very clean.
Now, NYC is shipping them out to points unknown. We all might get a taste of this disaster, whether we want it or not.Don't put yourself a situation where they can affect your day to day life. It is that simple.
I think most of the country is anyway. Panhandlers are pervasive. I travel all over the country and they’re everywhere.Now, NYC is shipping them out to points unknown. We all might get a taste of this disaster, whether we want it or not.
I see it as a symptom of a larger economic diseaseI think most of the country is anyway. Panhandlers are pervasive. I travel all over the country and they’re everywhere.
Some of us were born and raised, I didn't get a say in the matterJust imagine how bad the rest of the cities are!
TBH I don't really get why so many people like to live in most large cities at all? I've read a few article/studies that find cities in the 50-100k size tend to have the best quality of life, with short commutes, nearly all big city services, a sense of community, usually cheaper housing relative to income, fewer "big city" problems.
Dripping Springs is rapidly becoming part of the Austin Metroplex just like Leander, Round Rock, and Buda have already become. So is Liberty Hill. Housing/land prices, cost of living, property tax, traffic, and crime have followed suit. Austin proper has become landlocked and property values have risen to the point where middle/working class people can no longer afford to live in the city. I can only afford to live in Austin because I purchased my house in the 1980s, paid it off, and get a senior citizen property tax exemption. Moving here now would not be possible on a working man's or retirement income. Even closer-in suburbs like Cedar Park and Pflugerville are rapidly becoming unaffordable.I was thinking about Dripping Springs when I retire as I don’t have to be on the road traveling.
Because a lot of it is armchair quarterbacking and politically motivated. Plus how dare we blame anything on one portion of the population, or give the demographics, unless it’s certain groups that the woke folks are allowed to blame?
There has always been crime, and always will be. Panhandling and drugs have become pervasive everywhere. Cities make access easier. Less enforcement makes it more likely that bad folks will do bad things - take the carjackings and crime in SE DC as an example.
I know folks that live and work there. I grew up just a few miles away. Lots of folks won’t go anymore. Lots of folks will. It used to be if you weren’t looking for trouble or doing stupid things, you could stay away and it wasn’t an issue. The randomness of much of the crime is what most folks I talk to are more fearful of, not the fact that there is (lots of) crime itself…
True. But if the consequences are severe enough then most will not risk the crime. With DNA capability there should be no question in having a death penalty, provided the DNA results are conclusive when confirmed by two independent labs. Not sure what those odds of error would be but at billions to one for a single lab I think the odds are small enough to accept the results. Appeals should be limited in number and in time allowed, 2 appeals and 24 months maximum per appeal. The time of execution decades after conviction should be no more. Will it solve the problems? No. Will it greatly reduce the problems? Almost assuredly yes.I probably have mentioned this before: the only way you have little to no crime is some sort of dictatorship and tyranny.
Severely harsh punishment and banning lots of things can make everyone behaves the same way. Chewing gums on the road? Ban! Talking trash and trolling, sparking hateful debates on the internet forums? Jail time. Not supporting your elderly parents after they gave you their inheritance and send you to college? Reduced credit score and no air / high speed rail travel for you. Not paying off your medical bills because you cut corner and didn't buy insurance? We are taking your houses.
The only way you will get a 'everyone being nice to each other' society is to have a dictator in charge. Some dictators are good (Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Chiang Ching Kuo of Taiwan) but you can't guarantee anything without a system. The son who inherited the throne may not be so good and the next one can turn the country into trash.
You want your freedom you need to accept the trash that comes along with irresponsibility, and learn to mitigate the inevitable damage and limit the blast radius.
Philly could do some real simple stuff to make a better first impression, like blasting and painting the overpasses over I-95, and sweeping up a decade's worth of de-icing sand on its surface streets.I've always found it's relative to what people are used to seeing. To me, every city is cleaner than Philly. Old City Philly is very nice, but outside of that not so much.
Working at a restaurant was something of an an entry level job by default when no non-restaurant jobs were available. Now that people can choose what they want to do, it turns out, many of them didn't want to sling hash. It's a structural problem, particularly if you can't make your own sandwiches.I think that's pretty much the case anywhere near a bigger city nowadays. Restaurants can't find staff unless they pay more, and so the cost is passed to the customer.
Most murderers got off the hook because they have good lawyers, not because they have DNA evidences. Those who commit crimes usually either don't think they will get caught / prosecuted / convicted, or they just don't care due to the lack of self control.True. But if the consequences are severe enough then most will not risk the crime. With DNA capability there should be no question in having a death penalty, provided the DNA results are conclusive when confirmed by two independent labs. Not sure what those odds of error would be but at billions to one for a single lab I think the odds are small enough to accept the results. Appeals should be limited in number and in time allowed, 2 appeals and 24 months maximum per appeal. The time of execution decades after conviction should be no more. Will it solve the problems? No. Will it greatly reduce the problems? Almost assuredly yes.