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2020-07-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Americans leave large cities for suburban areas and rural towns

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-07 04:25|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Bringing Covid19 and lumpen-Marxism with them?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-07 04:35|| 2020-07-07 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ It happened in the '80's to Washington state when hordes of Californians moved from Silicon Valley to the Silicon Rainforest,

Posted by Mercutio 2020-07-07 06:26|| 2020-07-07 06:26|| Front Page Top

#3 In due time, those city slickers will return.

Posted by Clem 2020-07-07 07:07|| 2020-07-07 07:07|| Front Page Top

#4 those city slickers will return.

Not soon enough.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-07 07:28|| 2020-07-07 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 And that is how the plague spreads.

Can we file this as 'appropriation of native lands'? Asking for a friend.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-07 08:23|| 2020-07-07 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 I feel for the residents preparing for this invasion of urban locusts. I think the visitors will find it a rough go.

Posted by Clem 2020-07-07 08:46|| 2020-07-07 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 ...in the name of social justice, just show them the available real estate in the diverse neighborhoods.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-07 10:18|| 2020-07-07 10:18|| Front Page Top

#8 “As you go farther out, your taxes fall, your housing generally costs less, your schools improve, you get increasing amounts of public recreation facilities, you are safer from crime, and you are more likely to be surrounded by people like yourself. Given its ability to deliver all that, it is no wonder the public loves sprawl.”

Robert W. Burchell, Rutgers University, quoted in Scientific American, October, 1997

Posted by Bobby 2020-07-07 10:30|| 2020-07-07 10:30|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 But all of these advantages are temporary, right?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-07 10:32|| 2020-07-07 10:32|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Yes, very 'temp' in anywhere in proximity to Atlanta. Changing quite rapidly to the south, as are home prices and politics.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-07 10:50|| 2020-07-07 10:50|| Front Page Top

#11 In the 90s I moved to Spokane to escape California's tepid economy. I didn't bring any liberal nonsense with me. i did return to California because San Diego is amazing. Was amazing...

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-07 11:47|| 2020-07-07 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Please leave your big blue city problems and politics behind. We like our red conservatism.

Posted by warthogswife 2020-07-07 13:19|| 2020-07-07 13:19|| Front Page Top

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