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Pay more in local property taxes and your local government just might build that infrastructure. Or were you wanting city dwellers to fund it for you?

• thrower123 7y ago
  I would like those city dwellers to fix their own problems before castigating my whole way of life. If you need more housing in the Bay area, cut your red tape and build it. We're good out here in the rest of the country; in fact, if people could tolerate wotking remotely better, there are places where four-bedroom houses are selling for $80k.
  • hurricanetc 7y ago
    Castigate your way of life? Please. OP wants infrastructure. If you want infrastructure build it and pay for it yourself. Cities have their own problems but we aren’t looking for a handout from rural residents to solve those problems.
    • choeger 7y ago
      No. You just suck up every qualified work and spit out the poor souls that cannot afford your way of life anymore.
      • hurricanetc 7y ago
        And you enjoy a subsidized way of life with below value housing because the city workers fund it for you. Your cheap house is cheap because city residents subsidize it. In New York the city residents pay 45% of the taxes but receive 40% of the expenditures. How about we balance it out and let you rural residents make up the shortfall. In NY that’s about $8 billion per year. Good luck and have fun. Don’t bite the hand that feeds.
    • jebrial 7y ago
      It is also true that richer cities like NYC are paying way more in taxes and rural areas benefit from this?