I thought everyone knew that Fayettenam, Columbia, and Macon were the three biggest shitholes in the southeast*.
*not including the entire state of Florida
Let's not leave out Wrangor country.
I thought everyone knew that Fayettenam, Columbia, and Macon were the three biggest shitholes in the southeast*.
*not including the entire state of Florida
I thought his district had choice.
Either way, he has balls. Move away from established infrastructure to get away from Those People. Bitch about paying taxes for new infrastructure.
But Outside the Beltine, or OTB, topped the ITB when it comes to parks, streets, stormwater and public utilities with the city spending $3.50 outside the Beltline for every $1 that's spent inside, according to TrianglePolitics calculations.
What prompted the Inner vs. Outer comparison? Several Raleigh city council members, including Mayor Charles Meeker, heard from voters while on the campaign trail this fall who kept asking if the city was spending more downtown than out in people’s neighborhoods, Allen said.
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakewatch/itb-vs-otb
But Outside the Beltine, or OTB, topped the ITB when it comes to parks, streets, stormwater and public utilities with the city spending $3.50 outside the Beltline for every $1 that's spent inside, according to TrianglePolitics calculations.
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The linked article isn't about the county. Keep up
I thought everyone knew that Fayettenam, Columbia, and Macon were the three biggest shitholes in the southeast*.
*not including the entire state of Florida
Tuffalo's article is very much on point for this thread. In Raleigh city limits, most of the stuff OTB is essentially suburbia, although technically a suburb is a separate municipality that orbits a larger city. building out sprawling infrastructure OTB, and then discovering that services necessary to support that infrastructure > tax dollars generated by it, is the essential conservative argument against the suburbs.
Define "poorly run".
Is Raleigh "poorly run"? If so, people are not showing it when they "vote with their feet". There's been a 43% growth in Raleigh's population since 2001. http://www.raleighnc.gov/government/content/PlanDev/Articles/LongRange/RaleighDemographics.html
Have you been to Raleigh? The whole place is like the suburbs. The greatest population densities are some dorm at NC State and Central Prison.
Pittsburgh is actually an interesting case study. When their big industries left, the city refocused its energy, revitalized its downtown, and reinvented itself as a tech and tourism hub. Their finances are on the upswing and they've been successful at starting to address their legacy pension issues.
A big part of the Pittsburgh story is smart investment of taxpayer dollars into the urban core.
What happens when upscale, suburban-type homes actually have to pay 100% of the direct costs of paving their leafy suburban roads? They realize it's completely unaffordable without access to the property taxes spun off by other residents, so they opt to keep gravel.