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I'm sure that sentiment makes sense if you're in the city. But I'm equally sure that there are a ton of people in the crumbling former mill-towns upstate that
by douche 11y ago
I'm sure that sentiment makes sense if you're in the city. But I'm equally sure that there are a ton of people in the crumbling former mill-towns upstate that would love to have jobs and wealth pouring into their areas.
How does NY even function as a state? I came from Maine, where we bitch constantly about what we call "the two Maines," basically Portland and its suburbs, and then the rest of the state, which is thinly populated and rural. The politics and value systems are almost opposite in the two sections. Is there a dynamic like this in NY?
- Retric 11y agoA lot of theses arguments seem to come off as sadistic. We want jobs enough to hurt people, but not enough to move.
- modfodder 11y agoOver a hundred small towns enacted fracking bans, the oil industry sued to get the bans overturned. I'm sure there were towns that welcomed the oil industry (and NY operates much like "the two Maines"), but on this debate it felt like it was the citizens of NY vs the oil industry.