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Originally Posted by Kevin
30 years ago, it was really bad. The city's main XXX theater was on the strip of 23rd street which bordered the Paseo area and Heritage Hills. There was such high crime that a local liquor store actually placed an armed guard in a tower toting some sort of machine gun looking device. Even when I was in high school, the place was pretty bad.
Since then it really has come up and gone from being truly blighted to being a really hip, classy, different sort of place. It's got a good nightlife, I wouldn't have a problem walking around at night (which wouldn't have been the case back then). The area is nice. Just north of there, we have a very substantial Vietnamese presence, so we have a ton of awesome pho restaurants and various and sundry businesses with Vietnamese names I couldn't even pronounce.
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let me ask this in a way that you will understand, what was the make up of people who live in this area now as opposed to what it was 30 years ago?
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Originally Posted by Kevin
I just don't see how it could be bad for a city to increase its property tax take, get rid of a population which is a drain on public services and schools and generally improve everything.
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When it's taking a 'problem population' and shuffling it to another area without ever addressing the problem how does it solve the problem in the 1st place?
But of course, you being who you are, I expect for you not to get it.
This is the biggest problem that urban planners ignore. What to do with people who drain public sources? Move them elsewhere. Then in 30 years when people get sick of the cities and long for fresh air and countryside, it will start all over again....but because of urban sprawl, the end result may not be what it was 30 years ago.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Because of property taxes? Because she got a good price? Or because she was pretty sure her property was blighted and she was hedging against the risk of the city coming in and taking them anyhow?
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'Good price'...that's funny.
Try because the area was so BLIGHTED as opposed to what it was 30 years ago, she barely got anything for it.
"Good Price".
You are a funny little dude.