White flight? Suburbs lose young whites to cities

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Kevin

If the police won't clean up your neighborhood, you have to take it upon yourself to do something. There may be consequences for that, it's all a cost-benefit analysis, and it may be the case that eventually you're resigned to the fact that the neighborhood will slip into blight.

UGGGGG this is the same old school choice "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" crap. If people are paying taxes, why in the fuck should they lay down and put up with not receiving services (be it police presence, updated schools etc). The "walk away if you can and just leave it for the poor slobs who can't afford to do so" is a really good way to teach your children to be irresponsible brats who care about very little but themselves and their own pleasure.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

UGGGGG this is the same old school choice "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" crap. If people are paying taxes, why in the fuck should they lay down and put up with not receiving services (be it police presence, updated schools etc). The "walk away if you can and just leave it for the poor slobs who can't afford to do so" is a really good way to teach your children to be irresponsible brats who care about very little but themselves and their own pleasure.

People in blighted communities, on the whole don't really pay taxes. They get more than they pay in. And since there's generally no retail, mostly due to inventory shrinkage and safety issues in blighted communities, unless the city has a big footprint (which is not typical of older cities), then residents generally have to go out to the suburbs to go to Sam's, Wal-Mart or what have you.

Further, property taxes aren't going to be remotely comparable to the suburbs either due to depressed property values.

Expecting the same level of services in high crime, blighted communities is just absurd. And even in the suburbs, cooperation and interaction between public safety officials and the community is both common and expected. At least it is here.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Kevin

At least it is here.

Nice finish!
There ya go!! Speak from what you know!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Kevin

If the police won't clean up your neighborhood, you have to take it upon yourself to do something. There may be consequences for that, it's all a cost-benefit analysis, and it may be the case that eventually you're resigned to the fact that the neighborhood will slip into blight.

Originally Posted by Kevin

People in blighted communities, on the whole don't really pay taxes.

I wasn't talking about blighted communities, nor were you. There's a hell of a big difference between "blight" and as someone said, a community w/ a demographic that isn't as desirable to retailers. Those are the communities that the cops and the city services in general tend to blow off...allowing them to slip into full ass blight...and that's reprehensible.