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that's why government can help play a role by first incentivizing companies to move out there. once jobs move there, people will follow and you won't have the
by thorwasdfasdf 7y ago
that's why government can help play a role by first incentivizing companies to move out there. once jobs move there, people will follow and you won't have the problem above.
Back in the early days, the US gov would provide enormous incentives for people to populate the western part of the US, going so far as to even give away free land.
- gamblor956 7y agoThat is an overly simplistic understanding of how businesses and tax incentives work. Money isn't the solution to everything, and "jobs" is not a magical chant that solves every problem. Land in San Bernardino and the High Desert is effectively free right now and developers still aren't flocking there...even though people already live and work in the area (San Bernadino is a ground logistics/transshipment hub for North America.) People already work there. The problem is that nobody wants to live there.
- thorwasdfasdf 7y agoWhat's wrong with San Bernardino? They've got museums, a university and their own baseball team with their own stadium and a nice downtown. It's just a bit high crime, like all cities. It can't be worse than poop town SF.
- plughs 7y ago> poop town SF. It's frankly going to be hard for me to resist calling it that from now on. I'd have some trouble deciding between the two but I need to put on an extra layer when the temperature drops below 80F.
- gamblor956 7y agoMost of the storefronts in downtown San Bernardino are empty. The mall has 4-5 occupants out of 30+ storefronts. Houses just a block or two from the courthouse and city hall can be purchased for $1000. It's nicer now than it was at the bottom of the recession when it led the state in homicides and gang crimes, but it's still a long ways down from its heyday when it was a nicer city than Riverside.