This is a really, really, old template. They scream about it so much you would think they would know it.
- City goes to shit.
- High earners leave.
- Middle class people start to leave (jobs/crime).
- City falls apart in every way. Probably for a couple of decades at a minimum.
- Infrastructure fails too.
- Everyone else that can flee leaves the area.
- Gov taxes the fuck out of everyone else to try to "save" the area/city/etc.
- Hipsters (or whatever they are called in any given decade) 'Gentrify' major areas that were slums/drug dens...etc.
- City starts to come back to life (so long as progressive politics dont knee cap it at this critical time).
- Anyone that could not flee now bitches for a decade about how they are being priced out of their shithole that they created.
Too tired to write the rest of it out but if you are here you probably already get it. When a city falls that far, it takes decades to recover and nothing they do can turn it around overnight.. Unless they are willing to go full iron-fist, piss off all of their still (progressive) base and tell them to fuck themselves... Then they last for 1 term and its all - return to step 1.
This is a really, really, old template. They scream about it so much you would think they would know it.
1. City goes to shit.
2. High earners leave.
3. Middle class people start to leave (jobs/crime).
4. City falls apart in every way. Probably for a couple of decades at a minimum.
5. Infrastructure fails too.
6. Everyone else that can flee leaves the area.
7. Gov taxes the fuck out of everyone else to try to "save" the area/city/etc.
8. Hipsters (or whatever they are called in any given decade) 'Gentrify' major areas that were slums/drug dens...etc.
9. City starts to come back to life (so long as progressive politics dont knee cap it at this critical time).
10. Anyone that could not flee now bitches for a decade about how they are being priced out of their shithole that they created.
Too tired to write the rest of it out but if you are here you probably already get it.
When a city falls that far, it takes decades to recover and nothing they do can turn it around overnight.. Unless they are willing to go full iron-fist, piss off all of their still (progressive) base and tell them to fuck themselves... Then they last for 1 term and its all - return to step 1.
You forgot the step where the government doubles down on what broke the city in the first place.
You forgot the step where the government doubles down on what broke the city in the first place.
Yeah, you make a good point there. I figured that #7 more or less covered that but was not overly verbose about it.
Yeah, you make a good point there. I figured that #7 more or less covered that but was not overly verbose about it.
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