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Ocala, Florida
the "good ole boy" mentality of the city and county government
Tourists and snowbirds
Too many retirees
Lack of ability to attract new gowth/jobs
Illegals
Its reputation as the most corrupt city in America (believe me, it earned it!)
Tax abatements to luxury developments that don't need them, at the expense of taxpayers citywide.
Property taxes up 11% last year, up 25% this year, up how much next year?
Pay-to-play
City employees with 2 or 3 city jobs and 2 or 3 city salaries because they're friends or relatives of politicians.
A fire department with one captain (earning $200K) for every two firefighters.
A "pedestrians as an afterthought" transportation planning approach, which doesn't work in a dense city. It's very suburban circa 1980s mindset.
A drunken mayor who gets naked and gets into fights down at the shore. He probably knows Snookie.
A vice-mayor (title only, no job responsibilities, and serious salary) who got busted for stealing a rental car
A city councilman (recently voted out) who urinated on a crowd of people during a show in DC
It would be comedy if it weren't true.
Now I'm sure no body thinks where they live is perfect.
Anybody have any issues with their town/city that just get under your skin? state them here. This doesn't mean you hate the town you live in either, so don't feel nervous that your pride is shattering away.
I thought this would be a good way to open a few minds!
Growth. I've seen Salt Lake County go from a relatively small, still very agrarian and quiet place to a congested, overpopulated urban hell in only a couple of decades. And the population is expected to double again in the next 20 years
Insane trafic for one.
Gangs, graffiti, and illegals.
Pathetic local government(eg. Tony Villar).
Overall just not the city I grew up in back in the 70s and 80s. Its been going downhill ever since the 90s.:-(
Columbus Ohio: That car centric image it conjures and the lack of a decent mass transit system and walkable neighborhoods for a city proper of over 700,000 . Not everyone can afford or ever desire to drive here in C-bus! However it looks like people here haven't much choice as to whether they want to drive to everywhere or not. IMHO, this situation brings on traffic clogged highways, aggressive drivers ,road rage and the worst- an increased risk of being injured ( or worse! ) in a traffic accident.
My city has a lot of drug issues for one.
There's also a lot of good for nothing thugs who chill around the high School. If anything, there should be more enforcement to move these "thugs" away from that area because there's loads of kids who often drop by that area for lunch and it's not surprising to hear someone getting robbed, or attempted to be robbed. (they know to stay clear of me though )
I'd say the lack of vision in terms of the potential of the city/area, the negative/"it sucks" attitude some people have here, the urban schools not being better than they should in terms of general performance(eventhough if you want to learn you can) and the poverty in some neighborhoods.
Location: Prescott Valley, Az (unfortunately still here)
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Things that irritate me about the town I live in:
1. The cops seem to love to harrass anyone (and if they have arrested you before, they really are bad at harrassing).
2. Parking lots in most places here are too small (most vehicles can't turn to the spot to park. Have to back up, if there isn't someone behind you if you're lucky, to get to that spot perfectly).
3. Some of the people here (some love to pass bad rumors/gossip about anyone. And most here don't take regular showers/baths everyday either. And most of the men are nasty looking, never shave, or wash).
4. Some of the bars are like Frat Houses (beer pong games??! Please! This isn't a college town. It's for more conservative mature adults. I'd love to see a 30+ only kind of bar here someday. That would be awesome!).
5. It's a little too spread out (a lot of people here don't have a car and there is no public bus transportation to go back and forth).
6. It's more a "MOM & POP" type of town (what I mean is, that people who were born and raised here get treated better and know where and what events are going on all year round. While the rest of us here, who've only lived here a few years, never know anything. And people from here get the jobs, it seems. Seems like most of the jobs here only hire people they grew up with here).
7. The community pool here is only open for 4 hours out of the day!! (that sucks. Back home in Texas, we had a city pool that opened from 10am-10pm. Those were some great summer days! But here it's like 1pm-4pm. That sucks and it gets too damn hot to go down there at times. What are we supposed to do the rest of the day when it gets up to 110 degrees??!! Sheesh!!).
8. Everything seems to be ass backwards here (like #7, that's so ass backwards...It's hot as hell, why close so damn early).
Naples: If you can even call this a CITY. Where I lived on Long Island was more of a city than Naples is.
Most stores close when it isn't snowbird season. At our country club, the food isn't as good during the summer when snowbirds aren't here. It seems like this city caters to them.
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I feel the same way about my city.
