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Old 12-11-2014, 02:31 PM
 
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Many cities require that city employees live in the city.
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Quite a few cities have that requirement. People would be more invested in their job if they lived in the city they worked in. Also it makes since that city wages go to those that actually live in the city.
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Old 12-11-2014, 02:55 PM
 
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Quite a few cities have that requirement. People would be more invested in their job if they lived in the city they worked in. Also it makes since that city wages go to those that actually live in the city.
Wrong. It is all about revenue....


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Too many people seem to want to only work in the city and then run off to their little hideaway outside of the city after work. At least that is the picture I am getting here.
See above...

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Many cities require that city employees live in the city.
Does not make it right...

Stateline - Should Public Workers Have to Live Where They Work?

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Walker, a Republican, tucked a provision into his budget proposal that would prevent Wisconsin cities and school districts from imposing residency requirements on their employees. He argues it is an issue of personal freedom and individual choice, and that the residency requirement for Milwaukee teachers dissuades talented applicants from applying.

Barrett, a Democrat, said the state should stay out of Milwaukee's affairs, and has called Walker's proposal “the very definition of big brother government.” He has publicly fretted about a potential exodus from Milwaukee of middle-class public employees –and a corresponding loss in tax revenue.
Stateline - Should Public Workers Have to Live Where They Work?
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Old 12-11-2014, 03:13 PM
 
Location: San Antonio. Tx 78209
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Just because yes revenue is part of the issue doesn't make it wrong. Your income comes from the city you should be required to live in that city easy as that.
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Old 12-11-2014, 03:16 PM
 
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Just because yes revenue is part of the issue doesn't make it wrong. Your income comes from the city you should be required to live in that city easy as that.
Absolutely no logic to the argument. If a great LEO lives in La Verina because his wife wants to does not mean he should be fired from SAPD.

If a LEO lives in Alamo Heights and they are not hiring Leo's should he not be able to work?

Anyhow luckily in this day and age it is more likely a city is lifting the residency requirement than implementing one.
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Old 12-11-2014, 03:19 PM
 
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Rynetwo: Would you be ok if our Mayor and entire city council did not live in San Antonio?
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Old 12-11-2014, 03:20 PM
 
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Too many people seem to want to only work in the city and then run off to their little hideaway outside of the city after work. At least that is the picture I am getting here.
And just what is wrong with that?
Some people prefer to live in the serenity of country life, just like some of you prefer to live in the middle of the city.
To each his own.
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Old 12-11-2014, 03:21 PM
 
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Most of the newer gates have a "Squawk" sensor on them that allow first responders to open gates via siren.
But, not all of them. Bexar County hasn't done a good job of inspecting all of the gated communities. Some gated communities have failed to report themselves as gated communities. Just last year, someone died from a stabbing in a gated community. Officers and ambulances couldn't get inside the gate for 10 minutes.
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Old 12-11-2014, 03:33 PM
 
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And just what is wrong with that?
Some people prefer to live in the serenity of country life, just like some of you prefer to live in the middle of the city.
To each his own.
I didn't say anything is wrong with it. I just don't get it, that is all.

Having done both (Grew up on a farm out in Medina County near Hondo)....I can't say there is anything about the experience that merits the sacrifice to make the 1-2 hour round trip a day in a car but to each, their own is damn right old timer.
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Old 12-11-2014, 03:42 PM
 
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Rynetwo: Would you be ok if our Mayor and entire city council did not live in San Antonio?
The Mayor and city council create ordinances that the residents have to abide by so of course they need to live by those rules also. Firefighters and police do not have that power and should be able to live anywhere they want.
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Old 12-11-2014, 09:39 PM
 
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Default Smuboy is right again, work here live here,

As another analogy. City of Detroit, just came out of bankruptcy last night at midnight and there, the city employees of Detroit must live in Detroit. Of course it is about revenue. It is earned here so live here. Pay taxes with it . It is only what is right. Work there , live there and be invested there. Yes.
This residency issue is not about LaVernia law enforcement officers nor a fondness for country living nor being fired from SAPD nor city executives that live in Helotes nor a lack of freedoms.
It is about what is good, for the financial health of THIS city. So that it will continue to thrive. Annexation is merely growth, nothing more. Who knows State Hwy. F.M. 46 may just be the next outer "Loop" of the city in the future.
People will always gripe about growth and progress.
Traffic law obeyance was entered as analogous; to emphasize respecting laws in the city
of San Antonio. Taxation is the law too. Not very much of a stretch there. Some missed this?

As Rynetwo posted about Minn. Dem. Barrett's concerns on , "the flight of middle class public employees from the city of Milwaukeee....". This " urban flight" has a significant negative economic impact on any city. What are the middle class employees leaving behind in Milwaukee? A worse place.
Detroit is privatizing city services. It is cheaper to contract this work out.

Within Detroit it is easy to assume, the economy is very bad. Living conditions, bad. They are.
So who wants to live in Detroit? It is not a very good place to live. Right? Who wants to live there?
Why on earth would a destitute city pay suburbanites to work in Detroit and retreat to their homes far away from the city where they earn City money??
Can Detroit afford to pay a lot of outsiders to work at city jobs? Why should San Antonio.
The city of San Antonio has many great areas to live in.
This is a great pastime for many, to dodge taxation. This thinking stems from a love for money. then.
I am not opposed to this pastime and have a fervent belief in it, really. Progress is progress though and it cannot be denied- and to sell a house at a profit is not a bad thing necessarily.



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Absolutely no logic to the argument. If a great LEO lives in La Verina because his wife wants to does not mean he should be fired from SAPD.

If a LEO lives in Alamo Heights and they are not hiring Leo's should he not be able to work?

Anyhow luckily in this day and age it is more likely a city is lifting the residency requirement than implementing one.
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