> This is pretty silly because governments do compete for residents. I agree, but I also think many places compete poorly. I recently moved to a fast-growing

> This is pretty silly because governments do compete for residents. I agree, but I also think many places compete poorly. I recently moved to a fast-growing (read: developer-friendly) region of the USA that often claims to be a "top place to live". And I might just leave, for many reasons: * The water tastes terrible. But I bought a filter so whatever... * The schools are bad. But I can try to lottery into the magnet school, okay.. * The services suck because they are not made to keep up with demand. Worse yet this is "normalized", seen as completely okay by the culture. * Can't make a DMV appointment yet, next appointments available in three months * None of the post offices accessible to me have passport appointments available. The only walk in service available is in another county * I can't drive, transit exists but is too infrequent to be a good option to get to that other county for a very specific appointment That's just a small slice of government-enabled things which happen to affect me. But what of it? No one in power gives a shit. So f--k me for having high expectations, I guess.