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Cities are great until you have kids and you care about their education, safety, and overall well being. That’s when suburbs start becoming really attractive.
by lockhouse 3y ago
Cities are great until you have kids and you care about their education, safety, and overall well being. That’s when suburbs start becoming really attractive.
- thr-nrg 3y agoCities are getting worse year on year. I'd still be living downtown with kids if a homeless camp hadn't sprung up in a park near by. Suburbia by contrast is far enough from public transport that the homeless can't get there.
- quags 3y agoAs I read this I wondered based on Texas and Florida bussing immigrants out of state - will cities just start bussing their homeless out to the suburbs.
- gkuan 3y agoYour comment reminds me of the Guardian’s piece on cities busing homeless from a while ago [1]. It was kind of like Defcon. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
- i_am_jl 3y agoUnlikely. Those solutions are generally undertaken at the state level. There's no way to piss off voters quite like moving homeless people out of a city into their suburbs, and if those suburbs are in your state, those people can vote against you. Maybe this works somewhere like NY/NJ where NYC has interstate suburbs... But more practically, if you give a homeless guy in Manhattan $200 and a bus ticket to NJ, that dude is gonna come back. The distance is sort of necessary for the desired outcome.
- culopatin 3y agoI think immigrants get more attention than the local homeless population. The new shiny thing vs the “we’ll get to it yeah, just one more day” problem
- piloto_ciego 3y agoMaybe this is more of a you problem? Help to fix homelessness and you’ll be able to live wherever you want without being grossed out by the poor.