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27th August 2022

Question with 10 notes

Anonymous asked:

RE: the small town post - do you think that "buying them out" is a good solution to the problem? Seems bad to me, e.g. someone who owns their house in BFE rural town is unlikely to want to become a renter in the city or a suburb and see their net take-home go down by a lot even if they get a relatively big payout for moving. And even if their house has no market value (because it's in BFE) it's still a house they can live in for whatever minimal property tax they pay for it.

Well, the military offer of “sign on with us and we’ll get you out of here to somewhere we’ll provide you with a bed” always resonated in farm country small towns for a reason

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  1. mtxyqmpsfqklt said: Sure, they’re in the orbit of one, but look at the state of these things now, when their revenue stream is as good as it’s going to get. My point is that you probably don’t have to convince most people to leave at all if there are even minor policy changes.
  2. mtxyqmpsfqklt said: So I imagine a lot of people will leave when denser areas with better revenue streams get tired of supporting them and the cheap land rush dries up as the town tries to avoid committing itself to new projects.
  3. kontextmaschine said: @mtxyqmpsfqklt commuter towns are at least in the *orbit* of a city with productive employment
  4. mtxyqmpsfqklt said: So many of those small towns are very overbuilt and have been handed unmanageable, you can’t keep an infinite amount of road/sewage/water/electrical/fiber infrastructure while still delivering low taxes. Agricultural towns have an edge here because they’re economically productive, but commuter towns are a pure economic drain.
  5. kontextmaschine posted this
    RE: the small town post - do you think that "buying them out" is a good solution to the problem? Seems bad to me, e.g....