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I bet being a folk guitarist, your collection of Joan Baez records must be extensive.
Funny how when this is brought up you will never ever hear liberals deny that they put illegal aliens before American citizens. What a self-loathing despicable bunch.
Funny how when this is brought up you will never ever hear liberals deny that they put illegal aliens before American citizens. What a self-loathing despicable bunch.
You might want to break out the old Martin D-28 and practice this one to expand your repertoire!
Why does the question about access to large bodies of water have to be answered time and time again? For whatever reason, real estate within a hour or so of the coast is usually expensive. From what I have heard, much of the development of the modern world centered on WATER and access to it.
It isn't quite so obvious. First, the East Coast south of the DC suburbs is actually fairly inexpensive - even in major cities, such as Atlanta (close enough to the coast).
Second, around the world, some of the principal cities are merely on rivers, and not on salt-water coasts. Germany's or Poland's biggest cities are not on the Baltic. Paris is pretty far inland. London isn't exactly coastal. Moscow dwarfs St. Petersburg. Shanghai is coastal, but the inland Beijing is far more significant. Delhi is well-inland. So are Johannesburg, Cairo, Tehran. In all of these large countries with ocean coastlines, the capital and the dominant city isn't actually o the coast. It's in the colonial countries with harsh inland climates - the US, Brazil, Australia - where the principal cities hug the coast.
Third, American Joe Sixpack is not a connoisseur of culture or of outdoor recreation. He doesn't go to the symphony or the ballet. He doesn't go to the beach or climb mountains. He doesn't fly internationally, and therefore need not be close to LAX or even O'Hare. At best, he goes to the neighborhood gym, to run on the treadmill and to lift weights. He watches TV at home, sits on Facebook, and if he's an "intellectual", maybe he reads a book every now and then... all things that are possible in small-town Iowa or Ohio or West Virginia, just as readily as in LA or NYC.
Yes, much of the modern urban world was built on nautical commerce. But much of that was river towns. St. Louis and Cincinnati were once mighty and majestic. Today they're "rust belt". What happened?
Um... Probably because the pricey liberal metro areas tend to be economically successful and people want to live there; whereas in conservative rural areas nobody does? This is not that hard to figure out.
Basic supply and demand. The demand is far higher in the liberal areas since so many want to live there. Cheap in conservative areas because so few want to live there.
I think this is the point to ponder in regards to OP.
Why it’s mostly the liberals who are able to afford living in those high dollar areas? Why can’t All conservatives swamp into those areas?
Are liberals generally more intelligent, smart and educated to make more money and hence they can afford to live in such areas?
Or, Liberals are more generous spenders?
So when it comes to wealthy population (mix of liberals and conservatives), it’s the liberals who open up their wallets and move and/or live in those areas?
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Originally Posted by Ponderosa
Nice neighborhoods, good schools, safety, shopping, dining, cleanliness, and educated and cultured neighbors are what make them more expensive places to live compared to (especially rural) conservative areas.
Very interesting!
So if liberal population in those high dollar areas is swapped with conservative population, the neighborhoods won’t be nicer anymore, the school ratings will go down, educated population and cleanliness will be decreased?
The answer better be, Yes.
Otherwise why can’t conservatives make their areas as clean with educated population and good schools, as they have in liberal areas?
It looks like it’s the ability of liberals that they have kept a high clean and standard of living in their areas - otherwise who is stopping conservatives to upgrade their cities and states to compete with the cities and states of liberals.
Some of you guys are so childish and pathetic with your back and forth about murder and drugs etc. in liberal vs. conservative areas, trying to one up each other in bad categories in an attempt to prove that "liberal" or "conservative" areas are better. Grow up. The political division in this country has never been worse.
We can cherry pick evidence from some of the worst places in both conservative and liberal areas all day.
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