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A town with a median income ~20% below the national median, mostly because it's got a huge population of non-taxpaying resident college students. Yes, they pay
by bb611 9y ago
A town with a median income ~20% below the national median, mostly because it's got a huge population of non-taxpaying resident college students. Yes, they pay tuition, but that is all spent on Rutgers' campus and doesn't make it out into town proper. Similar issues are common around large campuses in NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, etc.
You seem like you're fishing about until you find a decent parallel, rather than actually having a decent one as a result of well researched comparisons.
But more importantly, is the random production of poor sidewalks ever going to be convincing? If your point is "Western Europe does it better," it seems like the appropriate evidence would be statistical in nature, and if you don't have it random examples aren't actually a convincing alternative.
- sampo 9y ago> it's got a huge population of non-taxpaying resident college students Rutgers University in New Brunswick: 69 000 students (but some are in campuses in other towns; Newark, Camden). Lund University: 42 000 students. If you don't like the towns I chose, why don't you suggest some town that you think would be acceptable here?
- bb611 9y agoSorry, you want me to make your argument for you? I'm not sure that even given your selection criteria I could do so, but if I did your methodology is still fundamentally flawed. There is very little reason to continue attempting to prove an argument if you know the outcome is fictional because the method of proving it is flawed.