Poorly Run Cities and Attributes They Have in Common (1 Viewer)

[-jb-]

I didn’t really know where to put this, so here. 
 

https://medium.com/@johndevore/new-york-doesnt-love-you-ab75335fe268

 

[Boston]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/lori-lightfoot-defends-ban-protesters-on-her-block-citing-right-to-safety

 

[matuski]

I didn’t really know where to put this, so here. 
 

https://medium.com/@johndevore/new-york-doesnt-love-you-ab75335fe268

Stop whining. For ####’s sake.

 

[matuski]

I didn’t really know where to put this, so here. 
 

https://medium.com/@johndevore/new-york-doesnt-love-you-ab75335fe268

This is a view out of my old apartment window in Astoria, Queens. I lived there for 165 years.

 

[tri-man 47]

Let's try this again.

I'd like to have a discussion about poorly run cities/states and what makes them poorly run.

My opinion is that there is a correlation between poorly run cities (and states) and the Democratic party running them.

After reading the first page of responses and thinking about this, I feel you need to define the bolded.  Chicago, for example, is "run" quite well, I believe.  Transportation options; garbage pick-up;...what criteria are you looking at?  Chicago has problems with poverty, lack of jobs, gang violence.  But that's different from how the city is "run."

 

[Herb]

I didn’t really know where to put this, so here. 
 

https://medium.com/@johndevore/new-york-doesnt-love-you-ab75335fe268

Hilarious and encapsulates how I feel about NYC. I never understood what its residents see in that city. It's filthy, ridiculously expensive and shallow, the people are rude and entitled and convinced that because they live in (what they consider to be) the center of the universe that they are better than you, especially if you're from flyover country. (To be fair, most people from coastal areas feel that way).

I do love the lights and nightlife there, and the history and culture and entertainment. I hope to take my wife and kids there once it's safe to travel again, as they've never been to NYC. But I'm convinced you'd have to be a delusional lunatic to willingly move there unless you had a high six-figure job offer. And a masochistic streak.

 

[Sand]

I’m sure Nampa Idaho is lovely and all but I’m taking DC and SF over it.

You'd have to pay me many multiples of my salary to live in either of those places.  And many multiples over that to live in LA.  

I'd take Nampa in a heartbeat.

 

[The General]

You'd have to pay me many multiples of my salary to live in either of those places.  And many multiples over that to live in LA.  

I'd take Nampa in a heartbeat.

if you have an aversion to city life that makes sense. These rankings are always kind of silly.

DC and SF are world class large cities however not sure how any list would say otherwise, LA and Chicago are great as well. 

 

[Sand]

if you have an aversion to city life that makes sense. These rankings are always kind of silly.

DC and SF are world class large cities however not sure how any list would say otherwise, LA and Chicago are great as well. 

Nampa is right outside Boise.  No exactly the boonies.  My opinions of those cities you mention are widely varied.

I always struggle with these rankings, as well.  Alabama is always ranked low in these "rankings", but I live in a nice place, paid $85 per sf for my house that's in a district with a top 2% set of public schools.  It's also near a highly regarded research hospital (this place is known for medical facilities).    Yet the state is regarded as a craphole.

 

[the moops]

Nampa is right outside Boise.  No exactly the boonies.  My opinions of those cities you mention are widely varied.

I always struggle with these rankings, as well.  Alabama is always ranked low in these "rankings", but I live in a nice place, paid $85 per sf for my house that's in a district with a top 2% set of public schools.  It's also near a highly regarded research hospital (this place is known for medical facilities).    Yet the state is regarded as a craphole.

Even craphole cities/states/countries have some nice places

 

[The General]

Nampa is right outside Boise.  No exactly the boonies.  My opinions of those cities you mention are widely varied.

I always struggle with these rankings, as well.  Alabama is always ranked low in these "rankings", but I live in a nice place, paid $85 per sf for my house that's in a district with a top 2% set of public schools.  It's also near a highly regarded research hospital (this place is known for medical facilities).    Yet the state is regarded as a craphole.

My problem wasn’t with Nampa being bad is was with a list that would rank it above DC or SF these places have no business being compared with each other. It’s pretty silly. 

Def agree that there are nice aspects to almost anywhere.